ABOUT
Fragments of Life is an ongoing photographic project by Tommaso George Sacchi, collecting black and white portraits, nudes, and conceptual studies captured across years, cities, and encounters.
Each image is a fragment — a sliver of lived time, pulled from the infinite and fixed through the lens. A second from my movie. My hologram. My eyes. My click. My connection with the sitter.
The work is rooted in presence: the quiet tension between form and feeling, the poetry of flesh and shadow, the ritual of seeing and being seen. There is no separation between the personal and the mythic, the intimate and the archetypal. These are documents of real people, real light, and real moments — made to endure.
Prints from the project reside in private collections in Florence, London, and New York.
ABOUT TGS
Tommaso George Sacchi was born in Florence, Italy,
At the age of seven, he borrowed a guest’s camera and brought it to school, quietly documenting his classmates. The camera was returned. The images were not forgotten. Those early photographs remain tucked in a drawer, waiting for their moment.
He studied architecture at the University of Florence and apprenticed in his father’s studio — a formative period shaped by design, discipline, and inherited vision — before relocating to London in 1996, where he co-founded the digital innovation studio UNIT9.
Over two decades in London and five years in New York, he helped shape global advertising at the intersection of technology and creativity — all while privately documenting the world around him. Patiently. Obsessively. Waiting for the tools to catch up with his eye.
Today, he devotes himself fully to photography — earning recognition for his abstract portraits, intimate nudes, and atmospheric low-light scenes. His practice is defined by energetic connection: each image a trace of something felt, not staged. Something fleeting, but undeniable.
His limited edition prints are timestamped to the second — fragments of time, precisely marked. A personal resistance to forgetting.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I’m not here to explain the work. I can only tell you what it feels like.
I try to capture the energy released in a shared moment — the invisible current between observer and observed. Something is created, and both people feel it. No one knows where it comes from. It shouldn’t exist. But it does.
I see the golden ratio in everything: light falling on a shoulder, a cracked window, the curve of a jawline. For those with eyes to see, it’s proof of design. A signature. A maker.
None of my photographs are staged. I take what I’m given.
Sometimes I ask the sitter to hold still in low light — but never to pose.
I’m not seeking perfection. I’m seeking presence.
Most moments arrive unannounced. I have a heartbeat to react — to lift the camera and click.
Each image is timestamped to the second: the precise instant my internal reel came into focus.
These aren’t just photographs. They’re memory capsules — coordinates in time where something real happened, and something true passed between us.
When you look at one of these images, it plays again.
The now that was becomes now once more. Everything has changed — and yet, there it is.
Our lives are short. These fragments are what I hold on to.
Proof that I existed. And that they did too.
At least in my hologram.
This is what I share with you.
“A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.”
— Plato