Maurizio Di Iorio is an Italian photographer who makes highly original pictures of food, women  and flowers. Using a colourful palette, he shoots a variety of still lifes in an ultra-modern pop style.

“Personally, I prefer meditation and control over the image, and the result must be based on my aesthetic tastes, composition principles and use of colour. The images that grab my attention contain some sort of little anomaly, a “capriccio”, possibly hermetic. My photographs are tales in a small scale and often focus on the relation between objects and human beings. This approach leads me to focus on details, especially of common objects capable of expressing and narrating our time. Somebody has called it “dark pop”, and it’s a definition I don’t mind at all. It’s a style that deals with the themes I tackle. Starting from the use of colours, which are deliberately violent because they express the disorder of real life. They’re the saturated colours of consumer society to which we’re all condemned. That’s why I often include products whose label is visible. And food is a pop phenomenon, on of the most important in the latest decades. I viscerally love colour and my aesthetic references are partly pop. Colours are fun and offer many more expressive possibities.”

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