A blood-splattered surgeon after an emergency horse op: Andrea Modica’s best photograph

‘You’d have to be out of your mind not to want to photograph this incredible woman.

And it was only afterwards that I realised she looks like a medieval statue, a madonna’ After my first job in the 80s, I had a little money and set off for Italy with my camera and a backpack.

I had grown up hearing about Italy, where my family is from, and so began 40 years of travelling back and forth – at times to teach photography, or for a relationship, and always to make photographs with no real agenda, just being in the moment.

My new book and the show that this image appears in spans my many visits.

It was taken about six years ago.

I became very interested in a horse hospital outside Bologna.

I made a large body of work there and this first appeared in a book called Theatrum Equorum, Latin for Horse Theatre, all caught on an old-style large-format 8x10 camera.

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