My OpenSea GENESIS Collection, Shades Of Blue is one of my most personal projects, one investigating the deeper nature of the human soul.

In 2014, I first went back with a camera to a place where I used to spend my summers as a teenager, the Cinque Terre in Italy. Walking on those forgotten, yet familiar, rocky shores triggered memories and awoke the sleeping ghosts of summers past.

I started investigating the life of those rocky sleeping giants, existing and ageing in between two worlds, the underwater and the above-water. Like shades of blue, their presence is real and unreal at the same time, they appear for a brief moment only to disappear again when the water swallows them back. The project then evolved and took a life of its own, the camera occasionally embraced the sky, rocks made of ice and rocks made by man appeared.

And so it went, Shades appeared for 7 years, in 7 countries. Now, slowly chasing the ghosts away and with them the blues, I keep walking my path of discovery.

Vieri Bottazzini | Shades Of Blue

Shade #37 – LONGING

Shades Of Blue is an exploration into the human soul, via a series of images investigating life and ageing of natural and man-made elements in between two worlds, the underwater and the above-water.

Since my first Shade in 2014, Shades kept appearing in front of my camera for 7 years, in 7 countries, and I photographed them as they came to me. Together with them I chased the ghosts and the blues away, and together with them I keep walking my path of personal discovery.

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Shade #37 – LONGING

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