Hidden Pearls

Vedeggio Valley, Switzerland    |    2017 — 2019

Luca Bertone - Hidden Pearls - Hero image showing historical stone architecture in Cadempino, Vedeggio Valley
“Photography as a midwife of the soul of places that was thought to be lost.”

— Prof. Graziano Martignoni

Hidden within the folds of the Vedeggio Valley, beyond the rush of the main roads and motorways, lie historical nuclei steeped in time and lived experience. This work is not merely architectural documentation, but a deliberate “pause of the gaze.”

By employing black and white, the images are stripped of the distraction of color to rediscover the underlying order and the soul of these places: the silent testimony of stone that defines our identity. It is a recognition of what has “already been,” captured at the very moment it risks fading from our daily awareness.

Luca Bertone - Hidden Pearls - Close-up of textures and time on stone walls in Cadempino nucleus
Luca Bertone - Hidden Pearls - Architectural volumes and shadows in Torricella-Taverne historical center

Project

Hidden Pearls
Vedeggio Valley, CH
2017 — 2019

Exhibitions

Torricella-Taverne (2017)
Lamone Cadempino (2017)
Bedano, Gravesano, Manno (2017)
Mezzovico-Vira (2018)
Monteceneri (2019)