Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi , 1981-1983

Scanno, 1957-1959

Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto, 1961-1963

Mario Giacomelli was born in 1925 in the city of Senigállia in the Marches, Italy. A self-taught artist, he began painting as an adolescent in a material style that anticipated an instinctive need to model his work's themes and materials, a process he later translated into photography.

His discovery of the camera as the ideal instrument for expression came on Christmas Day in 1953, when he took his first photograph on the beach in Senigállia with a Comet Bencini bought the day before.

The resulting photograph is The Landfall, an image of a wave lapping the shoreline like a brush stroke. In 1953 he joined the Misa studio, led by Giuseppe Cavalli, who was an important reference point for Giacomelli and other young photographers in the Marches at that time.