Elegia Fantastica

By (photographer) Emanuele Scorcelletti
Foreword by Cyril Drouhet
Preface by Denis CURTI
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Elegia Fantastica

By (photographer) Emanuele Scorcelletti
Foreword by Cyril Drouhet
Preface by Denis CURTI
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  • Published date: Oct 10, 2025
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 200
  • Publisher: HEMERIA
  • ISBN: 9782490952038
  • Dimensions: 11.8" W x 1.0" L x 11.8" H
Born of an Italian mother from Friuli and a father born in Jesi, in the Marches, Emanuele Scorcelletti returns with this project to the lands and roots of his paternal family for a tribute carried by great emotion. This emotion is the one that has attached him since his childhood to the passion for the image, first the cinema of Fellini, which his mother venerated, then the photography, that of Mario Giacomelli that he met in Senigallia, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jacques-Henri Lartigue, his masters.

Member of the Gamma photo agency from 1989 to 2009, internationally recognized for his photos of film and fashion stars, he received in 2003 the prestigious World Press prize in the “Arts and Culture” category for his black and white photo of Sharon Stone walking the carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

But make no mistake about it, what moves Emanuele is above all otherness and everything that deeply affects people, “places and people”, whether documenting the Carnival of Venice (in its early stages), a tree planting program in the Tamil Nadu region of India for the French Yves Rocher Foundation (2017), the General States of Women for French ELLE Magazine (2010) or the relationship between man and nature (exhibition Equus in La Gacilly Festival, France, 2017).

Cyril Drouhet is director of photography of the Figaro Magazine, part of one of the most important French media. He is also a curator.


Simona Cardinali is an Art Historian at the Civic Museums in Palazzo Pianetti, Jesi (Italy).


Denis Curti is director of the monthly “Il Fotografo” and artistic director of the “Casa dei tre Oci” in Venice, artistic director of the Photography Festival of Capri.

“The gaze of Emanuele Scorcelletti, known for capturing the human side of film and fashion stars, has evolved, and this is the subtlety of this book, as if this visual introspection were going to delve into a memory that is ever more distant, ever more imprecise, ever more expressionistic, bordering on the unreal. With his new work, Elegia Fantastica, memories gradually blur and Scorcelletti slowly frees himself from the traditional technical rules of photography, such as those of exposure time or framing, to obtain light-bleached portraits or hyper-contrasting black and white landscapes. In this evanescent journey and this nostalgic timelessness, ghostly and light forms evolve in cities frozen by the years, in sacred places preserved by a thousand-year-old faith, in a rural world spared by the frenzy of modernism. Images in movement that reveal a dreamlike work as an ode to eternal Italy, as a poem whispered to the wounds of life in which floats a certain perfume of innocence.” — Cyril Drouhet, Extract from the preface

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