Riccardo Beretta

A blue-haired girl singing passionately at the Fara Rock concert

Moments and events

Every photograph is a snapshot — in the most literal sense of the word. Not a studied pose, not calibrated lighting, but something that already existed and that would vanish a second later. Like a Polaroid slowly emerging between your hands, every image in this collection is a memory at the very moment it is born: not documentation, but instant memory.

Whether it is the explosive energy of a rock concert, the intimate solemnity of a ceremony, the shared effort on a mountain trail or the genuine tradition of a village festival, my approach stays the same: to be invisible.

I do not build the scene, I wait for it. I move through the crowd or in the silence of nature to capture that spontaneous gesture, that meeting of glances or that detail which often escapes the naked eye. In this collection you will not find posed photos, but fragments of real life, where the colours and the light are not artifice, but memory.

A moment between father and son at the large window of a cable car on Mont Blanc
A man wearing a crucifix made of chestnuts at the Truffle Fair of Alba
A wedding, a child standing in front of the bride and groom while everyone watches him
A woman inside a pedestrian tunnel in Levanto with warm light at sunset
A woman smiling in a yellow jumper, photographed in warm natural light
A little girl admiring a bride coming out of the church
A blonde, curly-haired girl with blue eyes looking out of the little window of a toy house
Newlyweds dancing wildly at their wedding party
A Ligurian man about to take his boat out to fish
Two girls: one photographs the landscape with her phone, the other portrays her with an SLR
Two young people on the beach of Levanto at sunset, amid intense purple tones
The Mezza Quaresima parade in Bergamo, a group of children dancing and walking
A man admiring the Resegone at sunset
Hikers reaching the Rifugio Nicola in Valsassina at the end of the day
A lone swimmer at Spotorno, in contrast with the crowded beach
Newlyweds holding hands, wedding at the Camilla farm stay in Concorezzo
A father, his bride daughter and a dog laughing, wedding at the Camilla farm stay in Concorezzo

Where these photographs come from

These shots come from very different places: from the Truffle Fair of Alba, from the mountain huts of Valsassina and the Resegone at sunset, from the beaches of Levanto and Spotorno, from the pedestrian tunnels that link the villages of the Ligurian Riviera. They come from weddings celebrated in Brianza farmsteads and from village churches in the province of Bergamo, from traditional fairs and processions such as the Mezza Quaresima in the old town of Bergamo, from rock concerts on the Lombard plain.

I do not build the scene — I have already said so above — but it is worth putting it more concretely: I move, I wait, I observe. Sometimes for an hour without taking a single shot, then in thirty seconds three things happen at once. This collection has no single thematic thread: it does, however, have an emotional one. Every image is a moment that would never have existed again in the same way.