Nature proche…

Presentation

Stéphane HETTE / Marcello PETTINEO

France

Photographs

Marcello is an advertising graphic designer by training, following a trip to the Central African Republic where he discovers the spirit of great safaris, he decides to move permanently towards a career as a naturalistic artist. Nourished by the atmospheres of the cabinets of curiosities and the MNHN in Paris, his style is asserted through his studies that appear like the pages of a gigantic travel journal.
Stéphane has been photographing the nature that surrounds him in damp Champagne for more than 20 years, his goal has revealed its beauty and poetry.
Member of the OPIE board and lover of plants and insects, he now divides his time between his role as editor within the magazine Nat’images, and that of author. Ambassador Canson Infinity, his photographs are distributed by the Blin plus Blin

Exposition

2025 2 | Chapiteau

Nature begins here, at our feet, under our windows, sometimes even interferes with us an obvious carelessness. No need to travel the world to discover its wonders, it is often enough to simply open your eyes to be convinced.
Wonder is within our reach, it awaits us, there, crouching in the grass, on a branch, in the air or even at the edge of the water. He is everywhere ready to offer himself to someone who will know how to find him.
This is what these more than 15 years of collaboration by the two authors for the French nature photo magazine Nat’images reveal: A biodiversity and accessible nature, giving people living in a territory the opportunity to discover its richness, to appropriate it, to become its ambassadors each in their own way.