Mario Flores Italy, b. 1949

Mario Flores began his career in the world of music, collaborating for over two decades with leading Italian and international artists. His pursuit of harmony, beauty, and evocative imagery gradually led him to photography — first in the commercial field and later in a more personal and artistic direction. By the late 1990s, photography had become his primary expressive medium.

Over time, Flores moved away from advertising imagery to develop a more experimental language, aimed at transforming vision into narrative and images into experience. In 2020, after years of research and technical exploration, he conceived Latografia©, a process that restores digital photography to its origins while giving images three-dimensional depth, evoking spatial essence and emotional presence.

Through Latografia©, Flores creates sensory and introspective works that turn iconic landmarks into metaphors of memory, time, and discovery. In 2024, he presented this new body of work in the solo exhibition Latografia© – Into the Depths Beyond Photography.

His work has been recognized with the Lynx Prize 2015 – Special Jury Prize for Il padrone e il levriero, as finalist at the Donkie Art Prize 2015 in Tokyo, and with several Honorable Mentions at the Black and White Spider Awards (2016, 2017, 2020). Flores has exhibited in Italy and abroad, with shows including 16 Vibrations Between Art and Reality (2014, Rimini), the Lynx Prize group exhibitions in Slovenia, Trieste, and Livorno, and Summer Solstice (2020, Rimini).

Today, his research stands at the crossroads of artistic photography, technical experimentation, and contemporary reflection — balancing innovation with timeless vision.