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We first came across Francesco Neri’s work on Instagram through a feature by David Campany, where a quiet black and white photograph from Wooden Tool Shed caught our attention and stayed with us. Born in 1982 in Faenza, Italy, Neri lives and works in the same region that has become central to his photographic practice, focusing on rural architecture, working landscapes, and the people who inhabit them. His long term approach to place, often using a large format camera, allows time, continuity, and subtle change to surface within the images. Wooden Tool Shed, published by Imagebeeld Edition with a text by David Campany, reflects this sustained engagement with material, labor, and memory. We later reached out to invite him into our Community section, and his generous and prompt response made it possible to share this work just before the festive season in 2025.



Image credit: Francesco Neri, Wooden Tool Shed, 2024
Courtesy of Large Glass Gallery.


Whether I photograph a person or a landscape, the highest ambition is, to paraphrase Oliver Sacks, to let light in without it being processed by the bureaucracy of my brain. In retrospect, it is the only way for me to understand what the photograph is showing me.

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Francesco Neri



Boncellino marks Francesco Neri’s first exhibition in London and the initial presentation of a body of work developed over two years in the small hamlet of Boncellino, near his hometown of Faenza in Emilia Romagna. Photographed close to home, the series unfolds through repeated returns to the same people and buildings, allowing time to quietly enter the frame. As Neri revisits these places, both photographer and subjects age together, and the work becomes a record not only of rural life, but of continuity and change. Shown at Large Glass Gallery between January and March 2024, with an accompanying text by Kate Bush, Boncellino will be published as a book at a later date.



Image credit: Francesco Neri, Boncellino, 2022/2025
Courtesy of Large Glass Gallery.


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