Roberto Bocci is a photographer and an installation artist born in Siena, Italy. His practice includes single and composite photographic images, installations, and experimental time-based media works. His artistic concerns encompass multiple points of view and questions of personal and social identity. Bocci has shown his work nationally and internationally and his prints are included in many private, public and corporate collections including: The International Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York; The University at Albany Museum, Albany, New York; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT among others. He has been awarded fellowships and grants including a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship; a Fulbright Fellowship; a Woodstock Photography Grant; an Arlington County Spotlight Grant and numerous Georgetown University research grants to support his work. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, and works in Washington, D.C., where he is a Professor of Digital Art and Photography at Georgetown University.
Over the years Bocci has used the panoramic format and time exposures to investigate a variety of subject matter ranging from the artist’s studio, urban and natural environments, and the human body. Panoramas, time exposure and recently digital focus stacking techniques provide unique opportunities to experiment with images that become metaphors for the manipulation of space/time and visual perception. Natural life cycles and the relationship between time, space, motion and the expanding/contracting nature of these physical entities is an inherent thread in his practice. From Newton’s gravitational laws to Einstein’s Special Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and String theory, the laws that regulate the nature and the evolution of the universe are a constant reference as Bocci interprets the world that surrounds him with his practice.
