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Pierfrancesco Celada

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Visual Artist based in-between Venice and Hong Kong; books at @muddyisland

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It is my great pleasure to introduce you to my first Venetian project:

Jeff P. Bezos, King of Amazon
Wedding Parade in Canal Grande, 2025
Art Puzzle, 500 pieces, ca. 35 x 50 cm
@muddyisland

June 27 will mark the first wedding anniversary of Lauren Sánchez and Jeff P. Bezos, founder of Amazon. The couple married in 2025 in Venice, a setting associated with ceremony, the display of wealth, and the historical staging of power.
Their three-day wedding celebrations quickly became a controversial event for the city, attracting vivid protests and intense media attention from around the world, reigniting ongoing debates about Venice’s continuing struggle with overtourism and the persistent use of the city as a consumable image.
The 500-piece art puzzle is conceived as an anniversary gift, translating this moment into a collectible and participatory object. Jeff P. Bezos, King of Amazon; Wedding Parade in Canal Grande, 2025 features the newly married couple accompanied by an entourage of private security, police, and paparazzi.
The scene is rendered in the visual language of traditional Venetian vedute, echoing the style of 18th-century painters who transformed the city into a reproducible image. Through this approach, the work situates a contemporary spectacle within a historical framework, blurring the line between documentation and invention while inviting the viewer to reconstruct the image piece by piece. by @fotografante

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5 months ago

Counting Ships, My latest book has arrived!

The island lies just a short ferry ride away; a 25-minute journey separating it from one of the most densely populated regions.
I lived on the island for five years. Each day, I would commute to the city, crossing one of the busiest maritime trade routes, with more than two hundred cargo ships passing daily.

Counting Ships
Soft-cover, concertina, 35 photographs, 36 pages
Photography and design: Pierfrancesco Celada
Image toning @melissapallini
Printed on water @grafiche_veneziane
Size: 14 x 10.5 cm
@muddyisland 2026 by @fotografante

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9 months ago

My new book “when i feel down i take a train to the happy valley” is finally here.
You can pre-order a signed copy with special offerings at the crowdfunding link in bio.

A special thankyou to Hong Kong and its people; and to everyone that supported me in this ten years long journey: my family, @huangxiaozhe_studio, @kurttong77 @renataferri @michelesalati @otto_steinert @michaelwolfarchive @remindersphotographystronghold @yumigoto @teunvdh @jchristophe_godet @gsyphotofest @phmuseum @rencontresarles @gwenleegimlay @sipfsg

photography: pierfrancesco celada
Layout @studio.bruno
Image toning @melissapallini
printed at @grafiche_veneziane
@muddyisland first edition, 2024 by @fotografante

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2 years ago

“My journey will, however, be longer than this; for I shall traverse my room up and down and across, without rule or plan. I shall even zig-zag about, following, if needs be, every possible geometrical line” Xavier de Maistre

Walking Circles
@muddyisland 2025 by @fotografante

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4 days ago

Out of fashion/ Fuori Moda, Milan 2026 by @fotografante

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15 days ago

'When I feel down I take a train to the Happy Valley’ is currently on view at @vamuseum until January 11th, as part of the 35 shortlisted books of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published PhotoBook Award.
The @fondationhcb Self-Published PhotoBook Award recognises artists who choose to conceive, produce, and distribute their books outside traditional publishing circuits.

When I feel down I take a train to the Happy Valley, @muddyisland 2024

“Hong Kong, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is a place of strong contrasts; a claustrophobic urban environment surrounded by water and untamed nature. I lived in Hong Kong with my family for eight years, from October 2014 to May 2022. This period was marked by major events: the umbrella revolution in 2014, the 2019 waves of protests, and the COVID-19 pandemic. These left indelible marks on Hong Kong’s collective consciousness. Using visual metaphors, I explored my personnal relationship to the city, seeking to convey its complex and multilayered realities. Occasionally, while walking in the city, one would spot a tram passing by; its destination sign reading “Happy Valley”, its final stop. In those moments, when you feel the weight of the city on your shoulders, I like to imagine that it still offer a sense of hope.”

Link in bio for a copy of the book by @fotografante

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17 days ago

@images_vevey 🧀🙏🙏 taken in Vevey, Switzerland by @fotografante

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a month ago

This weekend I am heading to Cheesland for Booklette 🧀📚

We'll be bringing a selection of @muddyisland publications including our latest book, Counting Ships!

Thank you @images_vevey for the invitation. Come by to browse the books and talk photography, books and cheese!

📍 Parvis de la Grenette, Grande Place 28, Vevey
📅 12–13 September 2026
⏰ 11am–7pm
🎟️ Free admission

See you there. by @fotografante

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a month ago

Surnommée le quai d’Instagram, cette jetée est un espace liminal entre réel et virtuel, un témoignage de la porosité grandissante entre nos existences physiques et nos avatars digitaux. Pour documenter les coulisses du lieu, le photographe Pierfrancesco Celada imagine un projet éditorial et une exposition numérique révélant la production cyclique de ces mises en scène de soi impulsées par les algorithmes. Est-ce Instagram, créature affamée d’images, qui pousse les habitants à cultiver un rapport exotique à leur propre lieu de vie ?

Un portfolio à retrouver dans le numéro 130 de Mouvement et sur mouvement.net (lien en bio) by @fotografante

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3 months ago

Which is your favorite missing piece?

Jeff P. Bezos, King of Amazon
Wedding Parade in Canal Grande, 2025
Art Puzzle, 500 pieces, ca. 35 x 50 cm
@muddyisland by @fotografante

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4 months ago

Today marks the first wedding anniversary of Lauren Sánchez and Jeff P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon. The couple married a year ago in Venice, a setting long associated with ceremony, the display of wealth, and the historical staging of power.
Their three-day wedding celebrations quickly became a controversial event for the city, attracting widespread protests and intense media attention, and reigniting ongoing debates about Venice’s struggle with overtourism and the persistent use of the city as a consumable image.
During those days, I followed their wedding celebrations for international media.
On the final evening, I waited for nearly four hours on the Accademia Bridge to capture their wedding parade through a vedutista approach, echoing the style of eighteenth-century painters who transformed the city into a reproducible image.
From that experience came the idea of creating, as an anniversary gift, a 500-piece art puzzle that translates this moment into a collectible and participatory object. Jeff P. Bezos, King of Amazon; Wedding Parade in Canal Grande, 2025 features the newly married couple accompanied by an entourage of private security, police, and paparazzi.
The work situates a contemporary spectacle within a historical framework, blurring the line between documentation and invention while inviting viewers to reconstruct the image piece by piece.

Jeff P. Bezos, King of Amazon
Wedding Parade in Canal Grande, 2025
Art Puzzle, 500 pieces, ca. 35 x 50 cm
@muddyisland by @fotografante

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4 months ago

Papers, books, puzzles are driving to @ineverreadartbookfairbasel this week!
See you in Basel!

I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel 2026
15th anniversary
June 14 – 20, 2026
Open daily from 16:00 – 22:00 Sunday from 14:00 – 22:00

Viaduktstrasse 33, 1st Floor, Basel

@muddyisland 📚📚📚 by @fotografante

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