Bresciani Emanuele is a Virtual Photographer based in Bergamo Italy and working everywhere.
“In 2020 I was italian-first Virtual Photographer ever to be exhibited in an actual Museum Of Modern Art (Luzzana, Italy, from February the 8th 2020 to February 29th)”
Hi, my name is Emanuele Bresciani and I’m a Virtual Photographer.
I captured a videogame for the first time In 2004, when Gran Turismo 4 first introduced a Photo Mode to the gaming community but only in 2010, a few months after the seminal DeadEndThrills was born, I decided to open a website devoted to Virtual Photography (my late electricblueskies.com 2010-2016) making me the very first italian virtual photographer and one of the first in Europe as well.
One of my screenshots from GT4: the photo mode already had a ton of welcome post-processing options to render a convincing sense of speed and momentum. To this day, some basic photo modes still can’t do it.
Since 2014, a selected choice of my best captures printed on canvas, glass, forex and skybond roam museums, art galleries and public events like the Milan Games Week thanks (also) to the lovely care of my friends at Neoludica in Varese. Debora Ferrari and Luca Traini are two museum curators that embraced the cause of gaming as an Art form, and since the early 2010’s they promote through the collective name “Neoludica” my and other game artists’ work hosting exhibitions all over Italy sponsored by big names of the gaming industry.
Yours truly, attending the 2014 Milan Gamesweek with my first-ever printed screenshot: “Future Sled” from WipeOutHD (Playstation 3)
In 2018 I was included in the first catalogue of italian digital artists, namely “Artisti Digitalisti e Game Artist italiani”, edited by Trarari Tipi.
In February 2020 I had the honour to be the first italian Virtual Photographer ever to be exhibited in an actual Museum Of Modern Art (Museo Donazione Meli, Luzzana, Italy, from February the 8th 2020 to February 29th) [1] [2] [3] having also the honour to have Virtual Photography as a whole labelled by art critics as “ready-made art” [1] [2]. A catalogue was also issued for this exhibition.
Some of the prints I exhibited at the Museum
The whole italian gaming press [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] covered the event and this allowed me to be featured also on local Art-Websites [1] [2] [3]. I don’t have any evidence to be world-first with this honour, but at the same time I did not find any evidence online of similar events whatsoever.
In June 2021 thanks to the ever-growing relationship between my friends at Neoludica and the historical Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia (established in 1852), for the first time in italian history a capture from a videogame (in this case: Assassin’s Creed II) was accepted and acknowledged as a “photograph” by an important institution in the field of Photography. My name was listed among 74 other names of IRL italian photographers (among the best in Italy in their field) and my screenshot was set to travel around 22 nations in the post-pandemic era sponsored by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
I know, this is not the best possible screenshot, I promise a better take in a near future, but isn’t this awesome nontheless?
Seeing my name among 74 names representing italian excellence in photography is as cool as you can imagine
In late 2021, my Ghost Of Tsushima “Virtual Photography x Historical Photography” project was so successfull with the whole attendance of the Rome Video Game Lab, that a booklet focused on that project was also given to the press:
Nowadays I’m working very hard to have Virtual Photography recognized as a true Art Form by Newspapers, Museums, Journalists and media that still can’t forsee VP exhibited at MOMA or Louvre as I do. In the meantime, I have open projects with Sony and Ubisoft Italy to promote the Art in Gaming on many different levels of communication. I also launched a column called “Pixel Perfect” on the gaming outlet Everyeye.it where I have the pleasure to interview the most interesting Virtual Photographers I find on Social Media.
Feel free to contact me at the social media and mailbox links above, and thanks for visiting.