[My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her,…

- Mario Giacomelli

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.

- Mario Giacomelli

Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact t…

- Mario Giacomelli

There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyon…

- Mario Giacomelli

I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is always losing parts. All I need to se…

- Mario Giacomelli

I try to photograph thoughts.

- Mario Giacomelli

Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.

- Mario Giacomelli

To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may di…

- Mario Giacomelli