Attilio Bixio’s Regina Viarium transforms the landscapes of Basilicata into quiet spaces of memory, where light, time, and abandonment reveal a deeply reflective approach to slow photography.
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I am a curious of life with idealistic tendencies and a fighter. I believe that shadows are the necessary contrast to enhance the light. I am a lover of nature, of silence and of the inner beauty. The history of my visual creations is quite silent publicly but very rich personally, illuminated by a series of satisfactions and recognitions, such as: gold and silver winner in MUSE Awards 2023; Commended and Highly Commended in IGPOTY 2022/19/18, honorable mention in Pollux Award 2019; selected for Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña (2014), Photosaloon in Torino Fotografia (1995) and in VIPHOTO (2014). Winner of Fotonostrum AI Visual Awards 2024. Group exhibitions in: Atlántica Colectivas FotoNoviembre 2015/13; selected for the Popular Participation section GetxoPhoto 2022/20/15. Exhibitions in ”PhotoVernissage (San Petersburgo, 2012); DeARTE 2012/13 (Medinaceli); Taverna de los Mundos (Bilbao); selected works in ArtDoc, Dodho, 1X. A set of my images belongs to the funds of Tecnalia company in Bilbao, to the collection of the "Isla de Tenerife" Photography Center and to the Medicos sin Fronteras collection in Madrid.
Collaborator and interviewer for Dodho platform and in Sineresi magazine [Website]
AI can be used in many ways that do not necessarily involve creating photographic images. But even when AI is used to produce images that appear photographic, we are not actually engaging in photography.
When I was a child, I remember that a rather cruel way to expose the “gullible” and then make fun of them was to say, “Look! There's a flying donkey!” while pointing your index finger at any spot in the sky
It was one of those days that I would call the same as a thousand others, when we immerse ourselves in socials to postpone the tediousness of real life. Sometimes I believe that Meta's algorithm perceives our moods; perhaps it measures the pressure with which we touch the screen of our mobile phone and, through an artificial intelligence, assigns it a precise mood.
Casa e Chiesa
Jun 6, 2025
My origins lie in the South of Italy, in Basilicata, where the pace of time is slower. Basilicata has been forgotten and abandoned by the rest of the Italians for a long, long time. A region that suddenly took a leap in fame because oil deposits were discovered in Sauro’s Valley and because Matera and its "Sassi" entered (unfortunately) in the mass tourism circuit.
I met Susana ten years ago, when she had just arrived in Bilbao from her native Zaragoza. Those were the days of her Antiheroes, which despite her wishes still "haunt" her. Since then, many things have happened, and Susana has specialized in the collage of photographic images, merging her profession as a graphic designer with her love for old photographs and their intervention.
Holy Week in Spain is something sacred: a mixture of religion, devotion, faith, idolatry, and folklore. It was to be expected that some creator would eventually put generative Artificial Intelligence at the service of this event as well. I felt that Juan Pablo de Miguel’s daring, provocative, and futuristic video proposal had a perfect place on an avant-garde, pluralistic, and international visual platform like Dodho.
Need for Finitude
Mar 14, 2025
Even though we often pretend to forget it, our lives and ourselves are destined to disappear or rather, to end. Finitude is our condition, and it is within this dimension that the concept of beauty makes sense.
First I discovered her photographs: they spoke to me about the hidden corners of the human soul that revealed themselves through the shapes and structures of natural patterns; then the texts accompanying her series followed,
After almost 6 years, I proposed this interview for Dodho and she accepted with the same availability and affability as always, even though she has now achieved important artistic goals throughout the world and her works are listed in important art galleries both in the United States and in Europe.
Life of forms
Jan 24, 2025
Reading the book “The Life of Forms - Philosophy of Re-enchantment” by Emanuele Coccia and Alessandro Michele (now only in Italian, with an English translation coming in Fall 2025) inspired me greatly and made me totally change my opinion about fashion and the object “dress.”
Undoubtedly, we have a public health problem in our health care system, which is still not very visible at the moment. It is not a disease per se, although this phenomenon is the cause of many major diseases and often even deaths. I am talking about obesity and in particular childhood obesity. According to the World Health Organization, 2.8 million people die each year from obesity.
Paola began photographing as a child, when her father gave her his Zeiss so that she could learn to love the hobby that he so enjoyed and at the same time scolded her because she tended to frame by deviating from the canons of photography at the time.
Niko & Adriana: Bored of being wild
Sep 20, 2024
Bored of being wild speaks of the wild side and the domesticated side that coexist in each of us as individual and social beings. The book visualizes the eternal struggle of many people to maintain their own uniqueness despite the “system” in which we have to fit.
In a moment of high voltage between Photography and AIgraphy in which the old spits plague and horns on the new (as has happened since the origin of humanity), it is precisely Juan Pablo's “bicephalism” between Photography and AIgraphy that has me taken to interview him, hoping that this can make us reflect, making room for this new way of creating visual art that will surely assume a predominant position in our lives.
Each of us needs to feel at home to be well. The concept of "home" is intimately linked to a spiritual state of well-being. To feel protected, to feel welcomed, to feel understood, to feel free to be who we intimately feel we are, to feel oneself in essence, to feel authentic; to connect with the harmonious universe, with thought, with memories, with hope for the future, with one's roots; to get rid of fears, of appearance, of complacency, of defensive armor.
A story of light – A book by Jan Nemec
May 10, 2024
I will never know if are the things that are looking for you and make sure that you find them, or it is you that are looking for them (sometimes without knowing it) and they let themselves be found.... this is what I felt when, last spring in Madrid, during PhotoEspaña 2023
Story of a lost love
Mar 26, 2024
There is nothing more heartbreaking than a love lost without having had the chance to be born. I'll tell you a love story like those you will surely have seen in some films, a heartbreaking and at the same time tender and moving love story.
Two important premises: I am the father of a 17-year-old teenager, so the concepts on which I reflect are not only thought of a theoretical point of view but are continually tested in the pragmatic daily life of a family that continues to think and convey positivity about the future to give to our children.
Astral Journey
Dec 22, 2023
What will be the consequences of the world we are building? I often ask myself this question and immediately afterwards I say to myself that who knows, my age, which is no longer so young, leads me to have a pessimistic vision of the future.
The Elephant Man
Nov 15, 2023
The acceptance of diversity in our society is still a pending task. There are still corners of society and movements of thought that are unfortunately coming back into vogue, that hypocritically fill their mouths with do-goodism but who still think that “the different ones” are "waste" from our society.
A wedding in the South of Italy
Oct 20, 2023
My roots proudly lie in the deep South of Italy, precisely in Basilicata (or Lucania), a region of green mountains and arid limestone spaces, with two views of the sea, one on the Tyrrhenian Sea and the other on the Ionian Sea.
Florilegio
Sep 8, 2023
The life of a flower is short. One day of a flower corresponds roughly to ten human years. This is why flowers force us to confront the cruel fragility of life. Flowers therefore imply much more than their beauty; they remind us that even in decay the time of life passes.
Waitography, the photography of waiting
Jun 16, 2023
In my previous article “Photography or Promptography” I talked about how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the visual language; how it is making us question axioms that seemed consolidated and how it is causing a schism in the photographic world. In this article I will talk about Waitography, that is, the photography of waiting.
The “photographic language” has evolved over time, moving ever further away from photography and, at the same time, it has fed back into the concept of photography in such a way that no one knows how to distinguish where one concept begins and the other ends. The images obtained using AI are intended to further expand the concept of photographic language
They are usually called artist studios: they are the laboratories and ateliers where artists carry out their creative activities, but also their craftsmanship and the boring but necessary work to ensure that a work sees the light.
The ancient Greeks contrasted the cosmos with chaos. The cosmos is the universe understood as a harmonious and ordered complex, that is in contrast with the chaos of matter. They said that before Chaos there was nothingness; therefore, Chaos is the personification of the primordial state of "emptiness"
AImagine: the new Era of making Art ?
Feb 3, 2023
We are experiencing a turning point; indeed, I would say a revolution in the artistic disciplines, especially those relating to visual art; it is the beginning of a new Era in which the current paradigms will no longer be valid, in which reality will be questioned or modified through alternative realities.
Byzantine connection
Dec 16, 2022
I did not know or at least I had never thought about it, but there is an incredible and surprising connection between the world-famous mosaics of Ravenna and the arbëresh of San Paolo Albanese, a very small village in Basilicata, completely unknown to tourists who visit the Italy.
Templar Geographies
Nov 4, 2022
Portugal is for me a country of cracked and yet brilliant beauty; when you are there, you breathe its decadent and yet amazing grandeur; a lifestyle that is reluctant to emergencies and even to fashionable is perceived; impervious to the most vulgar novelties. The liturgies of haste and appearance there seem to be somewhat deflated.
Cronorifugio
Sep 16, 2022
Light and time. These two essential concepts in photography are also fundamental for our being and in our life. Here and now, I feel that the time has come to talk about the time.
UFO – Unidentified Flowers Outfit
Mar 11, 2022
In its evolutionary path, humanity has always been characterized by the desire for knowledge. This desire, this curiosity, this drive has undoubtedly been one of the main engines of progress.
The praise of slowness
Jan 21, 2022
Reading the book "The Secret Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben, undoubtedly marked a before and after in my life and in my way of relating to botany and the plant universe.
ICM Photography and COP26
Oct 29, 2021
Climate Change is unfortunately a concrete and dramatic reality. Yet a large part of the world population, however, does not admit it
The title of this article I have borrowed by Ferran Adriá. In 2015 I visited a groundbreaking and innovative exhibition in Madrid at the Fundación Telefónica, “Auditing the creative process” by the Catalan master chef.
Invisible Cities
Sep 2, 2021
More than a year has passed since when, a virus with a size between 50 and 140 nanometers has put humanity in check and especially our way of life.
Psychography: psychology and photography
Jun 18, 2021
Throughout this long year that is being marked by the rhythms and restrictions associated with the pandemic, many of us have realized that having a creative tool such as photography in our “backpack” has often been our anchor of salvation.
An image only makes sense if it "sees the light" and if it is seen by someone. Otherwise it would be just a visual thought. In my opinion, the best way to bring an image to life is through a book.
Solitude and Loneliness
May 7, 2021
In English there are two words to identify the two types of loneliness that can be felt: loneliness, which defines a state of negative solitude, normally imposed; solitude, which defines the state of being alone, but not feeling alone.
Doubt and nostalgia for light
Mar 26, 2021
We have to doubt a lot, always, more and more often. Do not take anything for granted; we must not hang on to questions, waiting for others to give us an answer; we must always seek our own answer.
ICM photography is a type of photography that is done with instinct, you are never sure of what you will get, but at the moment of shooting, I know what I would like to achieve. According to this idea, I consequently move the camera and set the times and diaphragms.
Lockdown Flowers
Dec 19, 2020
If a year ago, anyone had told us that we would count almost a million and a half deaths from a pandemic and just over 55 million infected, we would have called him crazy or at least, qualified as someone who brought bad luck.
“Genius Loci” of emptied Europe
Nov 6, 2020
Genius Loci is a Latin expression that indicates the “essence of the place”, its unique and indistinguishable nature. The Genius Loci is the bearer of identity.
Everyone knows Cartier-Bresson's attention to social issues. I did not imagine that in this strange and atypical summer I would have stumbled upon a jewel in a remote corner of the world.
We live in a technologically advanced but emotionally primitive world; a world in which we often keep the feeling and the living totally at a distance which, instead of mutually supporting and helping, they hinder each other.