Description
Sguardo intimo
As difficult as it is to specifically describe my work as a photographer, I think I can start with the idea that photography for me is a completely unexpected way of expression, connection, knowledge and introspection. I use the term unexpected because it represents a discovery I made on my own journey, unaware in my early days of what would come of it. This profession has given me the opportunity to meet people with kind and powerful souls, through whom I have been able to find insights for personal growth, work and artistic research. It is about connections, enthusiasm, and shared passions coming together and creating a synergy that will give birth to a project, a story, or simply contribute to the discovery of something new that was hitherto unknown. Without these “encounters,” these exchanges, the whole fortress on which my work stands would collapse. The photography that reflects me tells precisely these encounters, tells the spirit of people, aims to make visible the awe of those moments, wants to get in touch with the introspective. Therefore, it is essential for me that the viewer does not receive the vision of the image solely as aesthetically beautiful, but is able to receive the emotional part of it. The creative journey travels parallel with personal growth, each discouragement and success enriching what I have to say. The style that defines me is artistic, authorial, mostly tangible: a woman’s skin, the sensual intimacy, the infinite frailties, all of these are a rush of sensations on which we often dwell little. That’s what photography teaches us: to pause, to look inside, and I try to express this with a bold language that can challenge the viewer’s sensitivity. I have always found great inspiration in the human figure, specifically in the female body, there is no known reason other than the spontaneity with which experience has led me to approach it and draw lessons from it, such as learning to accept the uniqueness of a body that can almost never be called perfect, but in its complexity represents the origin of life. Through the woman’s body, I can express a message of intimacy and delicacy. Even not knowing the subjects being portrayed, the observer is able to become fully familiar with them and aware of the harmony present during the shot. Harmony and complicity, are two fundamental elements in making an image filled with meaning that can provoke a reaction in the viewer. The look I propose is meant to be one of absolute fidelity and understanding, giving way for anyone to read its authenticity. Although post production techniques are advanced, I do not find it in any way discrediting to use them if the purpose is to enhance and not to mystify. An emotion aroused by a photograph is never a deception. Light, whether artificial or not, is a fundamental element in my research, I like to know how to use it, to study it, to dare, to create sometimes unreal but sensual points of brightness, to add value to an image through light and the colors it allows us to see. The search for light is as indispensable as the willingness to upset the ordinary, to give meaning that is never trivial and taken for granted, to observe from different points of view, to break the order, to create a new perspective, a new pattern, to undertake new challenges aware of the risk involved; in these words is the central theme of my photography, to boldly describe a reality that is not always objective without altering its value, to give back to the observer the possibility of being part of it and of welcoming every feeling.
