Biographies

Pietro Pietromarchi was born in 1965 in Venice and now lives in Brussels. He graduated from the prestigious Politecnico di Milano and is an architect by training. He practiced this profession in Italy before moving to Ahmedabad, India, where he collaborated with the famous architect Balkrishna Doshi.

Driven by a passion born when he was a child, he travels around India by train in his spare time to immortalize the steam locomotives that still run there. He exhibited his photographs in Milan in 1999 and again in 2000.

In 2001, he moved to Belgium, where he began a career in real estate, while continuing his search for the last steam trains around the world. He was exhibited in Brussels in 2006 with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, then in 2013 on the occasion of the Accessible Art Fair by the Minsky Gallery, which organized a solo show in Paris in 2015.

In 2021, he released the book Steam Power (Lienart Editions) and an eponymous exhibition was organized by the Minsky Gallery in Paris. The same year he abandons his activities in real estate to devote himself to organic farming and photo-graphy. He continues his project on steam locomotives and has initiated another on the mountain.

Bénédicte Philippe is a journalist and art critic. Heritage, art brut, architecture and design are her favorite fields. Her eye has followed photography in Paris for twenty years. She has helped in the choice of photographs reproduced in the book Steam Power, of which she signs the preface.