Franco Belsole. Habitat | In any time and place

[…] Going through Franco Belsole's work, one has the sensation of dressing a gaze in which the understanding of the complexity of the scene viewed does not distance the author from the possibility of expressing great formal care. A making the image in which the technical awareness and the compositional ability refer to a familiarity with an iconographic panorama that goes far beyond that contemplated by the history of photography to which the author still remains deeply linked. […]

Far from the typical postures of "pure" architectural photography, the photographs rather pause to reveal what this architecture produces and organizes on the persona.
Drawn in a Foucaultian Enlightenment, Belsole's images pursue the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the postures of the passage that takes place in a dwelling in which governmentality has produced its monuments in the very design of the world-environment.
A territory that, with the due differences that characterize the specific architectural expressions, the author finds not dissimilar in different cities to the point that the scenes themselves appear capable of repeating and insisting on the same expressions and atmospheres. […]

From the text by Matteo Cremonesi