Time Traveler, Hatje Cantz, 2021
In his new book of photographs, Gianluca Galtrucco abducts our sensibilities, casting us into a cosmos that ends science. We encounter UFOs, some of them strangely antiquated, others futuristic.
We come across an astronaut eating in a diner or machines and vehicles that fill what could be interplanetary colonies. Time Traveler is full of unlikely scenes that collapse time and space. Some of these scenes Galtrucco has staged, others he has found in reality, but all hover in a gray area of fantasy and disbelief.
What is actual, what is virtual, what is science fact, what is science fiction? Galtrucco’s cinematic approach to photography, with a sly, enchanted whimsy, is apparent on every page.
Awards
Winner of a Silver Award at the PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris.
Tokyo International Foto Awards. Honorable mention.
For Your Consideration, Hatje Cantz, 2017
Like no other city in the world, Los Angeles encourages the observer to play with illusions. At every street corner, one wonders if one is still in ordinary life, has stepped onto a movie set, or entered a heat-induced mirage. Gianluca Galtrucco discovers comedic and dramatic images throughout LA and its region that blur the boundary between reality and artifice.
Awards
Winner of the German Photo Book Award Silver, 2018
The Making of "War and Peace"