Monday entry (for 10/5/09): Artist of interest: Olivo Barbieri

Olivo Barbieri, born in 1954, is an Italian photographer well known for his body of work titled Site Specific, which he started in 2006. Site Specific features aerial urban landscapes that were manipulated upon creation with a tilt swing lens in order to make the landscapes look like toy miniatures. Barbieri has stated, "I was a little bit tired of the idea of photography allowing you to see everything...after 9/11 the world had become a little bit blurred because things that seemed impossible happened. My desire was to look at the city again." Barbieri used this technique again a year later when he created his next series The Waterfall Project, in which his subject this time around was waterfalls.

Interview with Barbieri, conducted by TheMorningNews.org.

Barbieri's work has been exhibited at The Yancey Richardson Gallery.