Photographer Giuliano Reggiani is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. From the project ‘BALABIÒTT (Northern Italy’s dialect)’. To see Giuliano’s body of work, click on any photograph.

BALABIÒTT (Northern Italy’s dialect)

In both its meaning, the simpler “lunatic” we use today and the older used to define the theosophical community in the 1900s, the term balabiòtt always described an unconventional character, inclined to not care about taboos and to make its own archaic totems.

Symbols, clothing and cultural environment show the will to share, to socialize and to claim the self-freedom to react against every conformist ideology.

Giuliano Reggiani

Born in 1972, works and lives in Italy.

He started taking pictures very young, but it’s with the coming of digital photography that he started collaborating on fanzine about the underground music scene, documenting performances and live concerts.

In the same period, the company he worked for as an automation engineer, received commissions for photos to be used in advertising catalogues.

Beside the digital production, he experiments with analogue chemical techniques and alternative procedures for the silver bromide gelatine - but bended in a contemporary style.

He's been working for years on social and anthropological themes, crafting his personal reportage-like style.

All images and text © Giuliano Reggiani