Francesco Radino (1947-2022) began to photograph in 1968 and in 1970 he decided to become a photographer. In the eighties he took part in numerous public commission projects (Province of Milan, Lombardy Region, EU Jap Fest, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Museum of Contemporary Photography). AEM of Milan (Municipal Energy Company). Since the 2000s he has also dedicated himself to video making. He has exhibited his work in Italian, European, Japanese and American galleries and museums and his works are part of international public and private collections. Over the years he has published many books. Among the most important: Italia di Lucania, 1981; Quattro a Verbania (not to mention the lake) (with Gabriele Basilico, Luigi Ghirri, Natale Zoppis), 1983; Gothic fortresses and electric moons (with Gianni Berengo Gardin and Gabriele Basilico), 1984; Gothenburg, 1987; Modus Videndi, 1989; The inventions of the gaze. Five photographers interpret the night in Milan (with Gabriele Basilico, Olivo Barbieri, Joel Meyerowitz, Martin Parr), 1989; Morphosis, 1992; Mutations, 1994; Francesco Radino. Photographs 1982-1994, 1995; Milan between light and heat, 1995; The waterways: canals, canals and canals, 2000; Inside, 2001; Capri, Milan 2004; Reframe, the rooms of time, 2007; Milan, 2015; The cathedrals of energy, 2016; The Scali Ferroviari di Milano, today before tomorrow, 2018. Francesco Radino's photographs are interwoven with thoughts and memory, moments of reality and fragments of experience, animated by analogies and formal references that continually affirm that the world is one and its complexity cannot be looked at in separate sectors, thus, fish, industrial objects, shadows, trees, flowers, beaches, archaeological remains, waters, mountains, city streets, historical and contemporary architecture, skies, stones, meadows , bodies, become objects of an inquiring and poetic, organizing and imaginative gaze. Strengthened by a profound visual culture (his grandfather photographer, his father and mother both painters), frequenter of oriental cultures, Radino imagines through photography a world of various figures, all worthy of being looked at and thought about, in a continuous oscillation from nature. to culture.