About
I’ve been a photographer for most of my life, but I’m not here just to show images.
Hi, I’m Bruno Candiotto, photographer and founder of Horizont.
With a degree in International Relations and a master’s in Education, Art, and Cultural History, my work has always been rooted in observation, memory, and meaning.
For over two decades, I’ve used photography to explore silence, distance, and the quiet beauty of everyday life. My work has been featured in publications such as Yatzer, Freunde von Freunden, and Opumo, and has occasionally been compared to the contemplative spirit of Ansel Adams and the Group f/64.
After becoming a father, my gaze expanded. Horizont, a minimal kidswear brand, was born from the same search for presence, simplicity, and memory. And from the desire to build meaningful moments outdoors with my kids.
Today, whether through images, stories, or the clothes my children wear, I keep exploring what truly matters.
Here’s what I do today:
Run Horizont, a kidswear brand made to live close to the body and stay close to what matters.
Help brands and creators turn stories into images and products that hold meaning. [more about my work]
Research how AI, Bitcoin, and creative systems are changing how we create and live.
Still images. Still stories. Just in more ways than one.
>>> português“Bruno follows a long line of landscape photographers who extensively travelled to capture the authenticity of nature and man’s place in it. His photographs bring to mind among other things Ansel Adams and Group f/64 who during the 1930’s and 1940’s strove to achieve ‘pure photography’ in reaction to Pictorialism, a movement that was seen as aiming to ‘create’ an image instead of ‘recording’ it.”
“Bruno is a highly emotional and affect-driven photographer... in 1956, French philosopher Guy Debord once defined as dérive, in which the participant lets unconscious desires guide them around an environment. Always unplanned, the traveler must “let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there”. More than half a century after Debord first wrote these words, Bruno is practicing them in his photography.”
“The art of Bruno’s photography lies in the fact it displays the simplicity of life. Demonstrating how a simple composition of a seascape can be so mesmeric, diverse and rich in texture. Finding the beauty in undiscovered or unusual places, through the baron dunes and dusty rock faces of South America, to initiate a powerful urge to explore...”
It doesn’t stop here.
Some stories don’t fit in a bio. So I’ve been writing about the journey, the shifts, the moments in between, and what stays.
