Paolo Pastorino presents the series Blite, which focuses on the relationship between blue and white along the coastline. The work emphasizes calm, open views shaped by light, sea and sky. The images reduce seaside scenery to wide fields of color and open negative space. The presence of objects such as a chair, a post or a rope offers anchoring points without interrupting the stillness. The series relies on gentle tonal shifts and limited contrast, maintaining a meditative and quiet visual language. Lines, edges and subtle geometric structures guide the compositions, giving each image both a photographic and graphic quality. Viewers are encouraged to spend time with the images, bringing their own sense of memory or place to them, as the absence of narrative detail creates room for interpretation.
Pastorino’s photographic background began in childhood, first using an Agfamatic with 110 film and later moving to a Ferrania camera in high school and then to 135 format. Vacations throughout the 1990s and 2000s were documented using slide film with Pentax LX and Minox cameras. After transitioning to digital photography, Pastorino became aware of a tendency to avoid including people in landscapes. Around 2014, this approach became intentional, focusing on images without people, crowds or conventional representations of place.