Art Basel Miami Beach has Massimo Vitali's Hot Scenes

Celebrated Italian photographer, Massimo Vitali, is exhibiting at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, opening tomorrow. His work (Catanalia Solarium, left, courtesy Galerie Ernst Hilger) might produce some double-takes for a series of seaside scenes, some reminiscent of a teaming Florida coast. Before he shoots, Vitali spends a lot of time gazing down from a […]

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Celebrated Italian photographer, Massimo Vitali, is exhibiting at this year's Art Basel Miami Beach, opening tomorrow. His work (Catanalia Solarium, left, courtesy Galerie Ernst Hilger) might produce some double-takes for a series of seaside scenes, some reminiscent of a teaming Florida coast.

Before he shoots, Vitali spends a lot of time gazing down from a 15-foot high-platform sizing up who to snap. His preference for crowded beaches, densely populated discos, shopping centres, leisure parks, and supermarkets result in spectacular vast images which also beg the question: "Where's Waldo?"