In his debut monograph, Luoghi, Nicola Buonomo deepens his engagement with nine familiar places. Ranging from his grandmother's backyard to a sand production facility nearby, these are all within a few kilometers of Nicola’s home in Northern Sicily, Italy. The photographs display a subtly dissonant relationship between man-made infrastructure and the natural world.

Nicola first defined a clear perimeter for each area, outside of which he could not photograph. In creating these limitations, he ambitiously sought to exhaust most of the possibilities of his gaze within them- prompting a repetitive style of shooting. Sometimes photographing a single subject many times, Nicola forced himself to find new relationships with what he already knew well. In this attempt to enrich his relationship with the familiar, Nicola’s process became synonymous with the final work.

“Luogo 2 is the vegetable garden located in the backyard of my house. Photographing what I thought I knew was a good opportunity to break down prejudices. The medium, my camera, has helped me in this, giving me back new perspectives on what I have every day in front of my gaze. From this place I was attracted by the many basic geometric elements: the lines, the squares and the X's that are formed mostly by the wooden structures in the garden.”

-Nicola Buonomo