I tried to find in the act of looking the first step toward understanding.
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The places, the outside world, the inside, everything seems to be crossed by faster and faster, more and more frequent visual stimulations, but this prevents us from seeing clearly.
The more and more dizzying increase, the faster and faster visual stimulation seem to cover the whole world in an all-absorbing way; this makes the outside world look irreparably tick and obscure, apparently impenetrable.
But precisely in this heterogeneous, hideous and endless "territory of the analog", photography can find its value and necessity.
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So, photography as a non-marginal moment of pause and reflection, a necessary moment of reactivation of the attention processes broken up by the speed of the outside world, a balanced image, or an image of pacification, between known representations and the ones to come.
Photography as a method to look at and depict places, objects, faces of our time, not to catalog or define them, but to discover and build images that are also new possibilities of perception.
Perhaps, in the end, places, objects, things encountered by
chance simply wait for someone to look at them, recognize them and not hold
them in contempt, relegating them to the shelves of the endless supermarket
outside.
Perhaps
these places belong more to our existence than to modernity and not just to
deserts or wastelands. Perhaps they are waiting for new words or new
figures, because the ones we know have been worn out for too long.
One must also establish an affective relationship so that places, spaces and architectures can become known, familiar, liveable, or perhaps they can simply reveal themselves anew to our look.
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Photography as a great adventure of thought and of look, a great magic toy that manages to miraculously combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood.
Photography as a language to see and not to transform, hide, modify reality.
No violence, no
visual-emotional shock, no twist, but silence, lightness, rigor, to be able to
establish a relationship with things, objects, places.
Confident that a look free from formal tumbles, forms of coercion and
lucubrations, will be able to find a balance between awareness and
simplicity.