Ale Ruaro
BODY MODIFICATION
Photographer since 1996, Ale Ruaro has dedicated the last 3 years almost exclusively to portraits. Always in black and white, his images are built, above all, in partnership with the people photographed, creating a harmony between the captured face and the light that touches it. Ale’s photographs are marked by strong, dense contrast in lighting, giving the faces contours reminiscent of Dutch painters like Vermeer and Rembrandt.
Ale photographs people of his time with the gentle, loving, and compassionate gaze of a 17th-century artist.
Ale photographs people of his time with the gentle, loving, and compassionate gaze of a 17th-century artist.
Ale Ruaro "Body Modification"
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Body Modification
Faces, bodies, stories written on skin.
In every tattoo lives a memory — a rite, a scar transformed into drawing. The body becomes language — a surface of revelation, testimony, and invention.
When photographing tattooed people, Ale Ruaro seeks not merely the record of form, but the encounter between image and flesh. His gaze crosses the epidermis and touches the invisible: the gesture of those who inscribe themselves into the world, who turn pain into art, silence into symbol.
Faces, bodies, stories written on skin.
In every tattoo lives a memory — a rite, a scar transformed into drawing. The body becomes language — a surface of revelation, testimony, and invention.
When photographing tattooed people, Ale Ruaro seeks not merely the record of form, but the encounter between image and flesh. His gaze crosses the epidermis and touches the invisible: the gesture of those who inscribe themselves into the world, who turn pain into art, silence into symbol.
"The body becomes language — a surface of revelation, testimony, and invention."
Just as the face is both horizon and infinity, the tattooed body is territory and time. Each line, each color, is an attempt at permanence in the face of the ephemeral. These marks defy forgetting, and once photographed, gain another layer — that of light.
Ruaro invites us to look and to be looked at. The portrait, more than a mirror, is a crossing. In this state of observer and observed, the artist restores humanity to these marked surfaces, reminding us that every image is a breathing body — a fragment of life that refuses to disappear.
Ruaro invites us to look and to be looked at. The portrait, more than a mirror, is a crossing. In this state of observer and observed, the artist restores humanity to these marked surfaces, reminding us that every image is a breathing body — a fragment of life that refuses to disappear.