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TO TAKE A PICTURE IS ALL WE HAVE

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Potenza (2018) Jiddu Krishnamurti explains the difference between the thinker and the thought, the experimenter and the experience, the actor and the action, and how actions, experiences, and thoughts come first and secondarily they create actors, experimenters, and thinkers that in reality do not exist. If we apply this logic to photography, we realize that the action of taking a picture comes before the idea of a photographer (which is imagined by the act of photographing). Therefore, without identification, there is only one free, uncontrolled, and happy creative gesture.

RITUALS

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Rotterdam 2018 I look for visual potential in familiar environments, repeating the usual rituals. I travel the same streets and squares of the city several times, pushing my sight beyond the known, because my research is not projected outwards but inside me. I discover new visions thanks to new ways of seeing.

WAITING

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Leidsche Rijn 2017 The photographs come looking for me. I can't let myself be guided exclusively by an intellectual project, by an idea created at the table. This is how usually works: once we have identified the message we want to get through, we work to convey it in the best way. That is, the vision bends to our thinking. But you can also abandon yourself to the reverse process. Here I am waiting, ready to listen to the message of Manifestation, and to act as an intermediary thanks to the art of seeing. I am not trying to compose a landscape following the compositional rules and expectations of a client, but I am trying to recompose the melody of Creation, hoping not to clash.

NEGATIONS

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Utrecht 2018 The images are stories of things eroded by the unconscious dance of modern man. The way to liberation is a road made of negations, of dead ends. This is why I want to point out the cumbersome legacy of a society that sinks deeper and deeper into the trap of individualism. Fighting against conflict, separation and ignorance is the only necessary struggle, a non-violent and conscious battle, fought with words and images of truth. Truth is like when you open the windows and let the light in.

MEMORY

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Utrecht (2017) Until the day I started taking pictures, my perception of the past, and therefore of life, has been probably very different. If the person is nothing more than an approximated ordered accumulation of memories, those not supported by images will be significantly different from those frozen by a camera. Until 1992, when I borrowed my father's Handycam to shoot some videos with friends, I have imaginative memories of my relationships, and it is known that the essence of life is in your relationships. Those people that I have never portrayed have not vanished, but in my mind they have taken on a decidedly different aspect from reality, becoming less exact from a physiognomic point of view but more intimate, more multifaceted. Of them there is not only my visual experience diluted over the years, but also a specific sensation that is like a sort of composite impression, made of the multiple aspects of the person: the voice, the body language, the smell, but above all the

NORMAL PHOTOGRAPHY

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Gate on the sea - Baia Toscana (2017) "Normal photography" is for me an attitude, a condition of the soul, not a technique or a style. It is a gesture that begins as a reaction but becomes controlled and deeply aware over time. It is to satisfy the need to record one's own vision, no matter whether for fun or artistic research. It is a sequence of intents, a flow of movements that starts from the recognition of the scene, goes on with a thoughtful technical execution aimed at its acquisition, and ends with the slight touch of the shutter button. It is an act in itself, a harmonious flow, the fairest epilogue of a happy discovery. Have you ever tried to combine meditation and photography? It is a bit like focusing on yourself before you do it with your lens. I invite you to find your method. When you are standing in a crowded place, for example, full of impulses, and saturated with potential creativity, it can be difficult to recognize the decisive moment through that much