I approach photography not as a tool for storytelling or aesthetic expression, but as a neutral recording device. My work strips the medium of its romantic legacy, favoring a strict, rule-based method rooted in conceptual art. By using rigorous parameters and taxonomic grids, I neutralize individual subjects, transforming them into serial visual data to expose the cold, underlying structures of contemporary human systems.

Manuel Sechi (b. 1970, Alghero, Italy) lives and works in Chelmsford, UK.

He is a visual researcher whose work focuses entirely on building strict grids, typologies, and cold inventories to map the administrative and repetitive patterns of the visible world.