Marco Pellanda, born in 1955, grew up in an unusual and creative family community. By his mid-twenties, Pellanda was a freelance fashion photographer. From 1985 onwards, his main artistic interest turned to furniture: he created 84 individual design pieces and set up a furniture-making business. At the same time, Pellanda continued to hone his photographic skills and worked with still life, landscape and food photography. He also developed a number of cookery books. The photographer eventually found a new direction: art photography Today, Marco Pellanda is an artist. Installations, visual arts and photographic interpretations form the basis of his current works, for which the techniques he employs owe a great deal to the idea of silver gelatine, positive lighting and adaption to new media productions.