The Elusie Gallery

The Surreal Photography of Dave Madeloni. With poetry and other writings by wordsmiths inspired by these images.

Dave Madeloni is a poet himself, but one whose pen is a camera. Such a statement has been said before for many a painter or photographer. But the analogy stops here!

Madeloni’s inspiration is at ground level, where most of us don’t even look. He captures fragments of life, themselves captured in the reflections of a pond, or a puddle. Mundane, anecdotical, intriguing…

It is when he flips the images around that the magic happens: he creates a new reality – ambiguous, poetic, puzzling – to encourage a new narrative…