Leonardo Pucci

about

Leonardo Pucci is an Italian photographer born in Pisa, Tuscany.
He links his first photographic memories to his father: “In the ’70s during the many trips with my family my father documented everything with a Yashica Mat 124G 6 6 minutely studying poses and shots. That black device with its two glass eyes seemed magical to me: you could look into that little window on the top and the box would capture things.”

Even today photography has a magical aspect for Leonardo Pucci, something surprising, a sort of unexpected narrative which goes beyond technique.

The images of his previous exhibitions, “Episodes (without a real order)” and “Suspended Possibility”, were shot in urban landscapes around the world and documented stolen fragments of real life, poignant visual short stories drawing on themes of loneliness, sensual intimacy and emotional significance.

Since these first projects Leonardo Pucci revealed the fundamentals of his photographic grammar: an incessant research for a strong sensuality in the composition, in the proportion between the elements, in the voluptuous but rigorous use of colors and lights.

The last project “Flowers” is an invitation from the artist to reflect on the relationship between beauty and control, between the incarceration of aesthetic ideal and the liberating power of bodily impulse.
Approaching cut flowers with the Japanese art of Shibari and capturing the result in highly sensual photographic images, Leonardo Pucci highlights how the obligation of beauty is a cultural construction designed to seize control and power over the body.

For over twenty years in the fashion industry, Leonardo Pucci is currently at Christian Dior where he oversees the creative areas of product development.

He divides his time between Paris and Rome.

artworks

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 2:50pm</i>, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, Paris 2:50pm, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 00:52am</i>, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, Paris 00:52am, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 10:52pm</i>, 2017, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 37.5x50 cm or 75x100 cm

Leonardo Pucci, Paris 10:52pm, 2017, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 37.5x50 cm or 75x100 cm

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Bangkok 10:05pm</i>, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, Bangkok 10:05pm, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Istanbul 10:43pm</i>, 2017, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, Istanbul 10:43pm, 2017, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 9:21pm</i>, 2015, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, Paris 9:21pm, 2015, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Roma 00:23am</i>, 2013, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, Roma 00:23am, 2013, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Poppies 10:57pm</i>, 2021, print of original photograph on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper - natural white, 37.5x50 cm (image size) and 57.5x70 cm (framed)

Leonardo Pucci, Poppies 10:57pm, 2021, print of original photograph on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper - natural white, 37.5x50 cm (image size) and 57.5x70 cm (framed)

Leonardo Pucci, <i>Anemone 5:31am</i>, 2021, print of original photograph on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper - natural white, 37.5x50 cm (image size) and 57.5x70 cm (framed)

Leonardo Pucci, Anemone 5:31am, 2021, print of original photograph on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper - natural white, 37.5x50 cm (image size) and 57.5x70 cm (framed)

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Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 2:50pm</i>, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 00:52am</i>, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 10:52pm</i>, 2017, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 37.5x50 cm or 75x100 cm
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Bangkok 10:05pm</i>, 2019, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 37.5x50 cm
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Istanbul 10:43pm</i>, 2017, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Paris 9:21pm</i>, 2015, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Roma 00:23am</i>, 2013, archival pigment on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper, 75x100 cm or 37.5x50 cm
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Poppies 10:57pm</i>, 2021, print of original photograph on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper - natural white, 37.5x50 cm (image size) and 57.5x70 cm (framed)
Leonardo Pucci, <i>Anemone 5:31am</i>, 2021, print of original photograph on Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper - natural white, 37.5x50 cm (image size) and 57.5x70 cm (framed)

exhibitions

press

LIFO
13.12.2021
LIFO

Flowers reminiscent of human bodies tied to the Shibari practice. Italian photographer Leonardo Pucci talks to LiFO about his “Flowers” project at Crux Galerie.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
07.12.2021
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

#Review – Leonardo Pucci’s exhibition in Athens

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KAPPA MAGAZINE KATHIMERINI
05.12.2021
KAPPA MAGAZINE KATHIMERINI

Leonardo Pucci’s shibari flowers

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L'OFFICIEL ITALIA
25.11.2021
L'OFFICIEL ITALIA

Flowers & Body: Leonardo Pucci talks about his new exhibition “Flowers”

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LES HOMMES PUBLICS
01.10.2021
LES HOMMES PUBLICS

Beauty and control, flowers and Shibari. Is this perhaps an extreme attempt to stop time, to stop the disintegration of carnality, to prevent spring from ending and excessive heat from transforming the landscape into a desert?

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CAP 74024
01.04.2020
CAP 74024

“Would you mind if I spied on you?”

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In Style
01.07.2019
In Style

Interview of Leonardo Pucci

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INFLUENCERS
01.06.2019
INFLUENCERS

The self-taught photographer Leonardo Pucci admires the way painters Edward Hopper and David Hockney isolate light and color in their works

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VOGUE
15.05.2019
VOGUE

The “stolen” moments of Leonardo Pucci

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ATHINORAMA
24.05.2019
ATHINORAMA

Through the lens of Leonardo Pucci

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LUISA WORLD
25.05.2019
LUISA WORLD

The surreal, everyday life

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FAY'S CONTROL
29.05.2019
FAY'S CONTROL

At the opening of Leonardo Pucci’s solo photographic exhibition in Athens

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THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
02.09.2018
THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

‘Art of Photography is Magical’
Subjects of Italian lensman Leonardo Pucci’s debut show owe a lot to theatre

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS
22.06.2018
THE INDIAN EXPRESS

In Other Rooms, Other Lives
Photographer and fashion industry veteran Leonardo Pucci’s works resonate with the possibilities of many different stories.

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MUMBAI MIRROR
20.06.2018
MUMBAI MIRROR

“Subjects don’t interest me, they are just a medium”

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DNA
31.03.2018
DNA

As a photographer, I want to grasp the details

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PLATFORM
01.03.2018
PLATFORM

Leonardo Pucci: The Curious Eye

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