Alberto Fanelli. 3rd District, a stereoscopic street journey

The Authorís surprising stereo technique brings the sparkle of life to a series of street photography shots, taken around the globe, from Europe to Asia and back, from Venice to Seoul, from Stockholm to Singapore. Images draw the viewer into the scene, plunging him/her into a street football match in a Venetian campiello or into a pool with a mesmerizing view on a Singapore skyscraper.
 
Alberto Fanelli invites us to a journey beyond anthropocentric perception, made possible through the use of hyper and hypo stereo high definition photography. Inspired by groundbreaking nineteenth-century explorations, the authorís work aims at giving the viewer an altered experience of reality, unattainable by human senses alone. The viewing experience of street life, people and objects gets twisted into something weirdly unfamiliar: we struggle to bring back to a sense a scenery which our brain perceives as undergone to an unfathomable metamorphosis.
 
Amazement and awe increase with the time spent trying to unlock the secret of our vertigo: we finally come to understand that reality is not altered, as usually done, by distorting it, but precisely by the opposite mechanism, i.e. by sharpening the neatness of our viewing powers.
 
Welcome to the 3rdDistrict of perception.
 
Alberto Fanelli
was born in 1965, in Milan, Italy. He first encountered photography, which became his lifelong passion, at the age of 15, when he was given his first single-lens reflex camera: a Yashica FX3. Educated in the humanities in college, he opted to study Computer Science at the University of Milan. During this period, Alberto traveled often, including trips beyond Europe, to Asia and the Americas, allowing him to hone his photography skills, particularly in portraiture and reportage.
 
After graduating, Alberto worked for a number of years in the IT industry, experimenting with AI technologies, leveraging on the internet and telecommunications, before finally deciding to leave this behind to pursue photography full-time in 2007.
 
This dedication to his new career led to a deep immersion in the industry, resulting in rapid artistic, technical and compositional development through intensive research, catapulting him onto the photographic stage. His publications in prestigious Italian and international journals (including the front cover of Internazionale and five Italian Playboy publications) are testament to the success of his work. Moving beyond traditional photography, Alberto experiments with many different visual techniques including timelapses, motion control, hypo and hyper stereo photography and studies about human perception. He started a collaboration with CityLife in 2009, on an ongoing timelapse project, aimed at documenting a decade of Milanese residential development (end of shootings are expected in 2019), centered on the three skyscrapers by Isozaki, Libeskind and Hadid and on the slow but inexorable change in Milanoís urban texture.
 
He adopted 3D stereo photography in 2010, and has since refined it, creating his own techniques, building own shooting systems/rigs and using unique post-production methodologies.

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