"For me the beach is the perfect site to observe people," wrote Massimo Vitali on his blog back in July 2018. "In other words, we move to the beach to take pictures of people, and not to take pictures of the beach. The beach is the most suitable site to observe human beings’ behavior,the existence of us human beings. How do people share the space on the beach, how are they staring at each other, and are they looking the other way? This is more considerable than geographical elements.
His new series,Short Stories, features plenty of beach scenes, or often shot in his native Italy. Born in Como in 1944,Vitali studied photography at the London College of Printing and worked as a photojournalist in the 1960s and 70s before fitting a cinematographer for TV and film in the early 1980s. He started to shoot large format photographs in 1993, finding fame with his work Beach Scenes in 1995. He's also shot crowds in other landscapes though, and including in nightclubs,and the new portfolio includes these other social spaces as well as beach scenes.
Source: bjp-online.com