Maurizio Galimberti was born in Como in 1956. He moved permanently to Milan in the nineties. He approaches the world of analog photography starting with the use of a Widelux rotating lens camera, and since 1983 he has focused his efforts, in a radical and definitive way, on Polaroid. In 1985 the turning point came. Galimberti meets Alan Fidler, an engineer of the Polaroid company, who shows him the Collector, an accessory of the famous camera used up to then to duplicate photos and catalogue small objects. He was the first in the world to create portraits by reinventing, with this tool, the technique of the "Photographic Mosaic". The first experiment dates to 1989, when he shoots his son Giorgio. The portraits made among others by the stylist Michele Trussardi, the étoile Carla Fracci, and the artist Mimmo Rotella will follow it. The reference to the photo dynamism of the brothers Arturo and Carlo Ludovico. Bragaglia and the search for rhythm and movement is evident. There are numerous portraits executed in the world of cinema, art, and culture. With guaranteed popularity and success, he became the official portraitist for several editions of the Venice Film Festival. His portrait of Johnny Depp, taken during the 2003 edition, was chosen as the cover of the September "Time Magazine". In 1991 he began his collaboration with Polaroid Italia, where he became the official testimonial by creating the volume POLAROID PRO ART published in 1995. He was named the "Instant Artist" and is the creator of the "Polaroid Collection Italiana". In 1992 he received the prestigious "Gran Prix Kodak Advertising Italy". In 1999 the Italian magazine "Class" placed him at the top of the merit rankings as an Italian portrait photographer. The "Mosaic" soon became the technique for portraying not only faces, but also landscapes, architecture, and cities. With balance, Galimberti alternates the emotion for the composition - where the search for the rhythm of which the Mosaics is an example of a propensity towards the details, of the intimate scene to be filmed and immortalized, whose outcome is represented by a single shot in the single polaroid. His works on the landscape, the cities and the space that characterizes these subjects, alternating these two different ways of narrating the same reality. Between 1997 and 1999 he carried out two important projects for the cities of Paris and Lisbon. From here begins the reflection on the importance of being able to tell the story, the music, the experience of a place through images. In 2003 he dedicated his work to the creation of the book "Viaggio in Italia", a story of our country through Single Polaroids. In 2006 he went to New York for the first time and began his research on light, on the energy inspired by this new city which for the artist becomes the ideal representation of the contemporary world. Also, in 2006, for Kerakoll Design he created the volume New York Matericomovimentosa. In October 2009, he participated as a testimonial at photography fairs in Hong Kong and Las Vegas, creating portrait performances with Lady Gaga and Robert De Niro. In 2013 he presented the Landscape Italy project in Venice. The exhibition, which has become a traveling project, is finally exhibited in various Italian locations to reach New York. At EXPO 2015 he presents the publication Milano by Maurizio Galimberti and the exhibition Metamorfosi. The rising city. Many critics and personalities of contemporary culture have written for him during his career, including Nicola Piovani and Dario Fo. Like an explorer, Maurizio Galimberti gradually arrives at the invention of a technique that will make his language exceptional. The Polaroid camera becomes the extension of his gaze, the tool that, more than others, allows him to reduce the distance from the subject being shot and to be able to grasp, in real proportions, the imperceptible details in a multitude of shots shown in the single work.