VIERI BOTTAZZINI

Vieri is an acclaimed Italian Fine Art landscape photographer, writer and educator with a personal style deeply rooted in pure photographic craftsmanship. Through his photographic interpretations of our planet’s landscapes, Vieri explores the concepts of time and of the surreal, investigating the passing of time and its effect over matter and, ultimately, over each of us.

In times when AI creations too often pass for photographs, Vieri believes in honouring our planet’s majestic beauty and in respecting its vulnerability by creating real, unadulterated, single-shot photographs only.

Since 2022, Vieri works exclusively in his signature, masterful black & white, a medium he finds truest to his vision and most suitable to create his photographic interpretations of the landscapes surrounding us. Since 2024, Vieri works with 4×5” black & white film, leveraging on the unique aesthetics of large format film as one more powerful tool to serve the expressive mastery of his interpretations.

Over a career spanning 15 years, constantly revisiting the destinations he loves allowed Vieri to deepen his understanding of the landscapes in front of him and create more powerful, truer interpretations of them. By doing so, Vieri could also clearly see these landscapes deteriorating year after year under the growing, destructive impact of human presence. Vieri’s photographs stand out not just as reminders of our planet’s awesome beauty, but of our impact on it as well, and he hopes his work will inspire others to help preserving and protecting the Earth, the only home we have.

Vieri’s Fine Art photography is the culmination of decades of study, passion and work, of months spent on the road every year, of hundreds of kilometres of hikes and most of all, of a lifetime’s devotion to the arts. Vieri’s photographs have been displayed in solo and collective exhibitions, viewed millions of times on social media and featured on leading industry publications such as Medium Format Magazine, LEMAG, Elements-Landscape Photography Magazine and more.

Vieri is a passionate teacher with over 30 years of experience, 15 of which as a university professor. In 2015, together with his wife Zeynep, Vieri launched Vieri Bottazzini Workshops. Since then, Vieri ran over 110 Workshops between bespoke Private Workshops and group Workshops uniquely limited to a maximum of three people, sharing his knowledge of photography and art with over 140 enthusiast photographers. Vieri’s growing destination’s Portfolio includes 18 spectacular Workshops in Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Scotland, England, Ireland, the USA, Italy, France and Spain.

Through his photography and his tutoring, Vieri aims to inspire others to embrace their inner artist and find their own path to self-expression.