Hapax ^©  

(Italy, 1984)

Dry in blue – Signed – Ed.1/15

Print Technique: Fine art digital print

Paper: 300 gsm Hahnemuehle Fine Art paper

Condition: new

Location: Chefchaouen

Year of the Photo: 2019

Year of the Print: 2026

Paper Size 21 x 29,7 cm

Image size: 18,6 x 28 cm

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Signature: Signed by the artist on the reverse – Certificates are available for larger sizes

Provenance: Directly from the artist and Image in Progress

HAPAX is the pseudonym of an Italian photographer and visual artist born in Rome in 1984. The name comes from hapax legomenon — a term in linguistics for a word that appears only once in a text — and reflects the core principle of his practice: every image is an unrepeatable event, a singular encounter between the photographer, a place, and a quality of light that will never occur again in the same way.

 

His work is built around slow, solitary travel. He moves through landscapes and urban peripheries with no predetermined subject, guided by an attentiveness to surfaces, textures, and the tension between natural and man-made environments. The resulting images are not documents of places but traces of perceptual states — what it felt like to stand in a particular spot at a particular moment.

 

His projects span multiple countries and climates — from the Mediterranean coast to Central European winters, from North African Medinas to South Asian temples — yet share a consistent visual identity: muted tonal palettes interrupted by sudden chromatic tension, natural light, and compositions that hover between abstraction and documentary precision.

 

HAPAX is represented by Image in Progress (Rome) for his fine art limited editions. All prints are produced as signed editions on archival fine art paper.

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