Olivo Barbieri (born 1954, in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna) is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments.
Barbieri's technique simulates the shallow depth of field effect of macro photography by tilting the lens's angle to the back plane of the camera, which creates a gradual blurring at the top and bottom edges, or left and right edges of the filmed image.
[5][6] In 2003, Barbieri started the Site Specific project (photos and films) describing cities like Rome, Turin, Montreal,[7] Amman, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Siviglia, New York and others.
[2] He has realised several 35mm films within this project:[8] Site specific_ROMA 04 was exhibited in 2005 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, at the Hayward Gallery of London and at Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART).
In 2005 he also started two series of movies called Seascape# and Riverscape#, which include: Other movies realised by Barbieri are: Barbieri's films have been presented in the most important international festivals, including:[9] He lives and works in Milan[citation needed].