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A person in a backless black dress sits curled up on a pale blue concrete surface. They wear white Converse sneakers and lean forward, hiding their face.

Photography: Strong colour palettes and careful curation dominate Gabriele Baldotto's work

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Date
2 June 2014

Italian-born Brooklyn-based photographer Gabriele Baldotto has colour-led curation down to a T. As far as subject matter goes his direction is almost ambiguous, treading the fine line between fashion editorial imagery, in which the garments his subjects wear appear to have been carefully chosen, and a still life series, with several shots of landscapes scattered throughout.

The subject doesn’t seem to be important however, because his images are strung together with a delicate colour palette which permeates into every corner. Here it’s a selection of blues, from inky teal to bright cobalt tarpaulin juxtaposed with the kind of sepia sandy brown to the burnt orange of a model’s hair. It’s a hard combination to resist. Gabriele’s is exactly the kind of haphazard and yet perfectly natural-seeming collection that we go for, so in this case, we’ll let go of the temptation to over-think and instead enjoy his work for what it is; a gorgeous collection of photographs.

A city skyline is silhouetted against a pale blue sky at dusk. A few wispy white clouds drift above the cluster of buildings and towers.
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A person in a long black dress sits curled on a pale blue concrete floor. They are hunched over with their head down, casting a long shadow across the surface.
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A person stands against a plain grey wall, looking directly at the camera. They wear a dark teal short-sleeved top and matching trousers, with soft shadows of leaves falling across them.
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A pile of rusted metal cans spills out of a torn, light blue plastic sack. The cans are various sizes and heavily corroded in shades of orange and brown.
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Rolling sand dunes under a pale, clear sky. In the distance, a strip of deep blue sea meets the horizon.
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A close-up of a crinkled blue plastic tarp draped over a dark, textured surface. The material is frayed at the edge, revealing thin, translucent threads.
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A person in a dark green T-shirt and matching trousers squats on a kerb, leaning against a wooden utility pole. A light blue garment is draped across their lap.
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Maisie Skidmore

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Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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