Renzo Cicillini creates analog photographs shaped by light, reduction and cinematic calm.

He works exclusively with film. Alongside his professional career, photography is his artistic focus and passion. His approach is quiet, thoughtful and carefully executed in a fully analog process. Many of his images are created using natural light, sometimes with long exposures. He also experiments with rare or decades-old film stocks to achieve a timeless, classic visual language.

Cicillini captures still moments – not only in remote places, but often in familiar, public spaces at their quietest. He lives in Switzerland and works both locally and internationally, always returning to places when the noise has faded. Stillness is not the subject – it is the atmosphere.

People appear in his photographs as part of the scene. They blend into the composition – part of a quiet narrative.

His work has been recognized in international photography competitions. With a reduced aesthetic and a clear visual language, his images invite the viewer to pause – and feel what remains.

Photographs that create calm. And stay.

International Awards

• 2024 - Tokyo International Foto Awards

  • Gold Winner

• 2024 - ND Awards, Neutral Density Photography Awards

• Gold Star Award - 1st Place in Analog / Film

• 2024 - Analog Sparks, International Filmphotography Awards

  • Gold Winner

• 2024 - New York Photography Awards

• Silver Winner

• 2023 - Budapest International Photo Awards (bifa)

  • Silver Winner

• 2023 - New York Photography Awards

  • Silver Winner

• 2023 - World's Top 10 Fine Art Photographers (One Eyeland)

  • Bronze Winner

• 2023 - World's Top 10 Landscape Photo Contest 2023

• Bronze Winner

• 2023 - Analog Sparks, International Filmphotography Awards

  • Honorable Mention

• 2023 - New York Center for Photographic Art 

  • Juror’s Selection

• 2022 - World's Top 10 Fine Art Photographers (One Eyeland)

  • Bronze Winner

• 2022 - World's Top 10 Black & White Photographers 2022 (One Eyeland)

  • Finalist

• 2022 - International Photo Awards (ipa)

  • Honorable Mention

Publications

• Woofer Magazine

  • Print Edition 1

• FIAF

  • LE FORME DELLO ZEN —> Article

• Muse.World

  • INTERVIEW —> Article

• Shoot it with Film

  • HASSELBLAD XPAN AND FUJI TX-1 REVIEW: THE FASCINATION OF THE PANORAMIC FORMAT BY RENZO CICILLINI —> Article

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