Renato Petean Marino’s dedication to photography as contemporary art led him to earn a master’s degree in visual arts in 2017, following his experimental glitched series Urban Compositions in Audio. More recently, he has focused on object-oriented photography, as seen in his series Reminiscences and Re(mini)senses, which explore found objects within urban spaces. His latest series, Tales of Wandering Lamps, takes this approach further, placing upside-down table lamps in unexpected environments to subvert their function and reframe the familiar. By turning his lens to the trivial and mundane, Renato is inspired by the subtle effects of light in shaping our interaction with the world, uncovering quiet narratives and echoes of human presence in images intentionally devoid of human figures.