Graphic Designer — Photographer

AldoPodestá

Forty years of looking closely — at line, texture and light, and at the quiet geometry hiding in everyday things.

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A lone stadium floodlight rising above a field of tall grass — FloodlightBlack & white

Portfolio

Selected work

Black and white close-up of a thorny branch crossing a pale sky — Thorns01

Black and white close-up of a thorny branch crossing a pale sky, shown as a framed print — Thorns01

A heavy, weathered chain link hanging in a dark warehouse — Link04

A heavy, weathered chain link hanging in a dark warehouse, shown as a framed print — Link04

A worn wooden door with a rusted latch inside a railway shed with graffiti — Shed Door09

A worn wooden door with a rusted latch inside a railway shed with graffiti, shown as a framed print — Shed Door09

A spiked iron gate standing at the end of a pier over calm water — The Gate12

A spiked iron gate standing at the end of a pier over calm water, shown as a framed print — The Gate12

Geometric panes and the pitched roof of an old glasshouse — Glasshouse14

Geometric panes and the pitched roof of an old glasshouse, shown as a framed print — Glasshouse14

The iron lattice of a gasholder frame against a clear blue evening sky — Gasholder02

The iron lattice of a gasholder frame against a clear blue evening sky, shown as a framed print — Gasholder02

Macro detail of frayed, twisted natural-fibre rope — Rope05

Macro detail of frayed, twisted natural-fibre rope, shown as a framed print — Rope05

Utility poles and cables criss-crossing between old apartment buildings — Crossed Lines07

Utility poles and cables criss-crossing between old apartment buildings, shown as a framed print — Crossed Lines07

The overlapping spokes and hubs of two bicycle wheels — Spokes10

The overlapping spokes and hubs of two bicycle wheels, shown as a framed print — Spokes10

Small cars of a children's fairground ride, still and empty — Kiddie Ride13

Small cars of a children's fairground ride, still and empty, shown as a framed print — Kiddie Ride13

Empty bumper cars resting on the track of a fairground at night — Bumper Cars03

Empty bumper cars resting on the track of a fairground at night, shown as a framed print — Bumper Cars03

The curving balconies of a modernist tower seen from below — Curve06

The curving balconies of a modernist tower seen from below, shown as a framed print — Curve06

Deeply grooved tree bark bound by a band of rope, in hard sunlight — Bark08

Deeply grooved tree bark bound by a band of rope, in hard sunlight, shown as a framed print — Bark08

A lone stadium floodlight rising above a field of tall grass, shown as a framed print — Floodlight11

I photograph what most people walk past.

About

A designer’s eye
behind the lens.

I’m Aldo Podestá, a graphic designer and artistic photographer with more than forty years of experience shaping images — on the page and through the viewfinder.

Design taught me to see in lines, shapes, rhythm and contrast, and that is what I go looking for with a camera. A rusted latch on a shed door, cables tangled against the sky, the spokes of an old wheel, a gate at the end of a pier: ordinary things that, framed the right way, become something to stop and look at.

Most of my work is in black and white, which strips a scene back to form and light. Colour comes in when it is the subject.

Experience: 40+ years
Disciplines: Graphic design, fine-art photography
Approach: Mostly black & white, always looking for form

Contact

Let’s make
something together.

Commissions, collaborations or a conversation about photography and design — I’d be glad to hear from you.

Instagram @aldo.podesta

AldoPodestá

Selected work

A designer’s eyebehind the lens.

Let’s makesomething together.

A designer’s eye
behind the lens.

Let’s make
something together.