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I have lived following all of God’s rules. You haven’t followed any of them. And everyone loved you more.

Alfred Ludlow

Tristan Dark is Marco Brunetti’s art name. After graduating in law from the University of Padua and writing his thesis on trademark protection at Benetton Group, he began his career as a photographer and advertiser in the equestrian world.

He quickly establishes himself as a reference photographer for the uniqueness of his shots and his extreme attention to detail. The definitive recognition comes with the portrait of Colonels Smoking Gun (Gunner) from 2011, which is undoubtedly his most famous and reproduced photograph.

That same year, he began shaping his most ambitious project, ARISE, a celebration of his unconditional love for Greek culture and mythology. Five months just for building the sets, over twenty models, an enormous amount of post-production work, and finally, the arrival of the famous make-up artist Diego Dalla Palma to write the introduction to the book…

ARISE is followed by collections like Vanitas, dedicated to 17th-century painting, and Neoclassical Darkness, a tribute to the works of Neoclassical painter John William Godward, as well as the definitive shift towards an idea of photography heavily influenced by painting and an increasingly obsessive attention to detail.

The birth of Ares Enian, his first child, is the perfect occasion to give more substance to the project of a studio entirely focused on wine. March 14th is indeed Ares’s birth date. 14.3 represents for the wine world what Tristan Dark Horses represents for the horse world: an eclectic and all-encompassing studio where quality is dedicated to a single subject…

Tristan Dark is Marco Brunetti’s art name. After graduating in law from the University of Padua and writing his thesis on trademark protection at Benetton Group, he began his career as a photographer and advertiser in the equestrian world.

He quickly establishes himself as a reference photographer for the uniqueness of his shots and his extreme attention to detail. The definitive recognition comes with the portrait of Colonels Smoking Gun (Gunner) from 2011, which is undoubtedly his most famous and reproduced photograph.

That same year, he began shaping his most ambitious project, ARISE, a celebration of his unconditional love for Greek culture and mythology. Five months just for building the sets, over twenty models, an enormous amount of post-production work, and finally, the arrival of the famous make-up artist Diego Dalla Palma to write the introduction to the book…

ARISE is followed by collections like Vanitas, dedicated to 17th-century painting, and Neoclassical Darkness, a tribute to the works of Neoclassical painter John William Godward, as well as the definitive shift towards an idea of photography heavily influenced by painting and an increasingly obsessive attention to detail.

The birth of Ares Enian, his first child, is the perfect occasion to give more substance to the project of a studio entirely focused on wine. March 14th is indeed Ares’s birth date. 14.3 represents for the wine world what Tristan Dark Horses represents for the horse world: an eclectic and all-encompassing studio where quality is dedicated to a single subject…

I have always rejected the idea of a “generalist” studio that can successfully operate in various communication sectors. Contemporary photography requires the same level of specialization as the medical field. We photographers simply cannot do everything optimally… that’s why I have chosen to focus on very specific areas that offer a reasonable compromise between our clients’ needs and my ambitions as an artist.
Marco Brunetti

The name Tristan comes from the 1994 film Legends of the Fall. The sentence that Alfred says to his brother Tristan towards the end of the film deeply affected Marco. Dark stems from his passion for Symphonic Metal and, more generally, from the idea that light – so dear to a photographer – by its very nature creates darkness.

Il nome Tristan deriva dal film Vento di Passioni (Legends of the Fall) del 1994. La frase che Alfred rivolge al fratello Tristan, verso l’epilogo del film, ha segnato profondamente Marco. Dark deriva dalla sua passione per il Symphonic Metal e, più in generale, dall’evidenza che la luce – tanto cara ad un fotografo – genera per sua natura un’oscurità direttamente proporzionale alla sua intensità. Il chiaroscuro di Caravaggio é sempre molto presente nelle opere più artistiche di Tristan Dark.

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