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MOVEMENT

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  Utrecht 2020 The disinterested action that gives rise to interested observation. Why should all this movement take hold of Reality? But it doesn't take hold of it, it doesn't even scratch it, it just leaves a patina on it, a reflection that dies when the light shines brightly and forms are swallowed up by the Non-Form. Reality (2020)

SUSPENDED PLACES

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  Urban Drawing - Ancona (2019) I want to get access to those visions which, in their insignificance, arouse the harmony of shapes and colors. I have always loved to compose these "suspended places" using the apparently casual arrangement of the roadways. A suspended place is an invention, like a children's fairytale. Discovering the fiction, but letting oneself be pleasantly flattered by it, is another aspect of Reality. Reality (2020)

AN INTUITIVE EPISODE

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Overlapping exposures in the camera - Utrecht (2020) Double exposures in camera are an attempt to get closer to reality, which is never in tension, never in control, but is total abandonment to Divine Chaos. The refusal of a second study and  a thoughtful combination of overlapping images, leaves room for an intuitive episode, in some way reactionary to all the false that surrounds us. But, as mentioned, it is only an approach, an apparently virtuous desire that can slip into habit, if one does not consider it, at the end of the game, only another fascinating aspect of what it's false. Reality (2020)

DWELL INTO REALITY

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Urban drawing - Antwerp (2019) Dwell into Reality and then go back to being fooled. Smile, rejoice, despair and cry, until you close your eyes and surrender to the warm embrace of oblivion, where what is, remains without being scratched. Soon you will be ready to be fooled again. Reality (2020)  

A NEW NARRATIVE

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Study and overlaps - Utrecht (2020) Narration can be used to create new narrative, like voices overlapping other voices creating meaningless chatter. The magma of the volcano also explodes in twisted and ever new shapes, giving birth to dark and fascinating rocks. The universe is a game in which the dice never stop rolling, and the throwers seem many and different, but in reality it is always and only One. Reality (2020)

SPEAKING WITH THE BODY

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At heart level - Utrecht (2020) The quarantine of this bizarre 2020 gave me the possibility to use my body as the main subject of my photographic activity. I have never explored in the past the language of self-portrait, both for a matter of shame and lack of intersts. I used my body to express my ideas and it was a deep experience, a kind of creative ritual that aims to describe, metaphorically, the spiritual technic of self-observation. Reality (2020)

THE PORTRAIT OF A CHILD

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Minetta - Utrecht (2017) In portraying a child, one encounters the purity of a depersonalized being, and in that gaze that gives access to a place without borders and that I like to call Love, we can get lost and ultimately find ourselves. Even if we decorated it with colors, called it by exotic names or made it assume a particular pose, we would never be able to strip it of that aura of cosmic harmony with which it is saturated. The portrait of a child is a door to Reality, without a shadow of a doubt! Reality (2020)

SOMETHING SACRED

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  Badia a Passignano (2020) This need to search for forms, contrasts and their dualistic nature, suggests the desire to find a meeting point which can only be timeless and spaceless, a state where the division is no longer possible, to make us witness the miracle of reconciliation. This is sacred. Reality (2020)

ONE WITH THE IMAGE

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  Where the way to the lighthouse ends - Ancona (2019) You could become One with the image. And you could even become One with the photograph. What does it mean? It means that there is no longer an observer, an object of observation that belongs to the image, and an index of the observation, which is the photograph. There remains only an experience in the present, which cannot be accumulated, cannot be criticized, not filtered by mental schemes, isolated in its integrity and, for all these reasons, Real. Reality (2020)

OBSESSION WITH DOING

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Kanaleneiland - Utrecht 2019   It's the obsession with doing that brings restlessness. The desire that allowed the acquisition of this image and the transcription of these words also leads us inevitably away from Reality. But in passing from one experience to another, perhaps even in the very act of flipping these pages, between a reading of a photograph and the one that follows, Reality could emerge. Just remember to use your heart, which is attention. Reality (2020)

WHERE IS THE TRUTH?

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  Sky and Obstacles - Amsterdam 2019 Where is the truth? In the unreal nature of a story and the desire to bring it to life. Let's write all the stories that come to our minds, but let's leave them there, where they belong, in the world of stories. Reality (2020)

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP!

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  Overlay with Buddha statue - Utrecht 2020 I am still clinging to the body, mind and memory, like a castaway holding a piece of wood in the middle of the ocean, even though he knows he can never save him. As long as duality persists, conflict will exist. The choice is between a false awareness and the embrace of the ocean. It's time to wake up! The ship never sailed! Reality (2020)

ABANDONING THE MASKS

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Luca is looking far away - Montese 2019   Love is reality, and to love is in recognizing oneself in someone's look. Therefore, if you look into this lens and I find a way to recognize you, to strip yourself of your masks without feeling emberassed, perhaps, you and I together, we have taken a step inside Reality. Reality (2020)

INTERMITTENCE

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  Layers and appendages - Utrecht 2019 Jumping from one theme or style to another is a way to highlight the democratic approach to the medium. Curiosity is all that ignites this pulsation of apparitions and disappearances, an intermittence that, if you give it meaning, can turn into a code and deceive the Real.  Maybe just for fun? Reality (2020)

BELONGING TO THE WORLD OF THOUGHTS

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  Inside my worlds - Liege 2020 Reality is in the potential of pixels to light up, to react to an impulse. Once acquired, image becomes the material of rhetoric and thought. What difference could there ever be between a street photo and a still, between a project and an intuition, if both the methods and the results belong to the world of thoughts and therefore unreal? Reality (2020)

FAITHFUL TO MEMORY

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  Hands and Shadows - Utrecht 2020 If your memory is true to you, then the stories will take shape, wonderful and harmless. But if you let memory take over, you will blur the waters of Reality, as sand does when it is moved on the bottom of a lake. So may the memory of your experiences turn into fuel for your creativity, and let it not become the steam that clouds the sight of the soul, in eternal contemplation of what is real. Reality (2020)

BE AMAZED

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  Landscape of the suburbs during the lockdown - Utrecht 2020 The revelation of the image where you do not expect it. This is also an aspect of Reality. You just need to stay alert, available to be amazed by the unexpected. Reality (2020)

INVITED TO THE DANCE

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Joaquin - Albussac 2018 From silence comes the sound. From the un-thought the word rises and so does the concept. The image appears from the absence of light. And in this eternal pulsation between action and non-action, we are invited to the dance. Reality (2020)

SOMETHING REAL

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Cemetery with effigy of San Francesco - Ronciglione 2019 Participating in a liturgy, externalized with true effort and untouched by the plots of thought, can also be a way to experience something real. Reality (2020)

BEYOND THE VISUAL EXPERIENCE

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Utrecht 2020 How far will our greed for images lead us, this obsessive research for visual experience, this shameless pursuit of high definition to tickle eye pleasure as far as possible? The technological enhancement is powered by the paradigms of the market, which requires the constant improvement of the product, 4K, 8K, 16K, beyond which we will no longer be able to perceive the difference in definition, but will that really be the limit? Absolutely not ... there will be 3D, holography, increasingly powerful lenses, sophisticated software, and optical illusions (the multi-camera, for example) to facilitate and emphasize the sharpening experience of the subjects. More and more advanced post-production programs, which will aim to highlight the elements in the foreground, excluding them from the context, as the ultra-individualistic society in which we live wants, which produces masses of endless narcissistic sheep flocks. The protagonist is separated from the rest, prisoner of his sem

WHAT'S LEFT?

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Pescara 2019 Suddenly words become superfluous. There is no need to explain anymore, because silence is the Great Revealer. So, what's left? The photographs remain, the work of a lifetime, shapes made of light that do not ask to be interpreted. There are lines, shadows, colors, forms, and objects of different quality and relevance, but we no longer feel the need to judge them, to transform them into signs. Reality (2020)

WHERE IS REALITY?

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Utrecht 2020 Reality is not in forms, colors, contrasts, and interpretations, but in the substrate where all these things are manifested, the frame within which the image rests, the technical potential to acquire a drawing of light, the gift of vision and the ability to discern its qualities. If through a photograph we will be able to intuit all this, we will have probably reached Reality, but only conceptually. Reality (2020)

RENOVATION

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Losing the wings - Utrecht 2019 Knowing how to renew one's seeing is the real pleasure of the photographer. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

DAILY PRAYERS

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Reflection of a little girl in the park - Utrecht 2019 These prints of my seeing they are the daily prayers of a devoted lover of Manifestation. The emotion, the commitment and the pleasure of portraying it, are inside each of these photographs. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

CAUGHT IN ACTION

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Davide and Gianluca - Utrecht 2019 I don't portray masks, I don't like to direct my subjects, but I catch them in action, unaware of being someone specific, separate... I freeze them in the dance of life. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

CODING ALPHABET

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Utrecht 2020 Mirroring ourselves in our portable devices and modeling our faces, to obtain an image that meets our standards of beauty, is no longer enough for us. Even those filters that hid the "imperfections" are not sufficient to calm our desire for identification. Now there are programs that, thanks to a couple of commands, totally distort our portraits, transforming them into something completely different and fictitious. Although the transformation is clear, I believe that many people will come to identify themselves with these digital avatars, because we have gradually arrived at this absurd metamorphosis of the idea of ​​"I". The old selfie (it is already old and not because of Bayard) deformed our faces due to the wide-angle lenses installed in smartphones, a deformation that seems not to have bothered those users unaware of the good use of photographic optics. Then it was the turn of the retouching in post-production, to remove wrinkles and hide small def

THE SONG OF THE WIND

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The tree of children - Limburg 2018 If the song of the wind is renewed with every gust of it, my path as an image collector proceeds at the pace of my clicks. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

THE SENSE OF SEEING

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Naples 2018 I can't verbalize the image, I can't decorate it with thoughts. It is the sense of seeing that intrigues me. Whatever happens inside a frame wonders me. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

STOPPING AT THE NON-CONCEPTUAL

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Lunch among friends - Roveta (2019) It was easier to find truth in the people I loved while I portrayed them instead that in the desire, sometimes obsessive, to do street or conceptual photography. I could easily stop at the Sunday-photo to feel fully satisfied of my creative path. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

SACRED

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Courtyard of a hotel - Liege 2020 If in composing an image I use all my attention, then this dedication of mine can become devotion. Surrender to experience in absolute harmony is something sacred. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

FINDING BEAUTY INSIDE NORMALITY

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Spreaded hand - Utrecht 2019 We found beauty in pain, in violence and perversion. Why shouldn't we also find it in normality? The Eternal Wandering (2020)

RENEWAL

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Macro on the balcony - Utrecht (2020) The type of creativity that I pursue requires that I move steps into unexplored grounds. The results are never tied to external consent. Only if I pick a fruit of new and diversified sweetness, I have the absolute certainty of not having wasted my time. And this fruit does not necessarily have to be the product of the creative process, but it can very well be revealed as the experience of acquisition itself. When I grab my camera, I abandon myself to the first rule of my creative goal, which is that of renewal. Whatever the object of my interest might be, I want the creative experience to be renewed in the light of each new day. I don't need to find unusual subjects or extraordinary shooting techniques, but I have to know how to see what surrounds me as if I were seeing it again for the first time, and as the first time I will have to transform it into an image. Returning periodically to the same locations, confronting the same subjects, with t

BEYOND IDENTIFICATION

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Joshua looks good in photos - Amsterdam 2019 In giving up on the character's narration, eyes open to reality. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

HOME IN THE GAZE OF A FRIEND

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Walter - Amsterdam 2019 Feeling at home in the gaze of a friend, in the lightness of his words, in his warm embraces. We can safely continue to err, if we know that home is there with him. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

NOTHING IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED

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Totem - Liege 2020 We write with the light to release creative energy. Nothing is taken for granted if it is reached with the heart. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

EVERYTHING IS EXPERIENCE

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Prinsentuin - Groningen 2019 Everything is experience. Even this white light that filters through a tangle of branches of an exotic plant. The heart could get lost among the thorns and leaves of this peculiar vision. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

AMAZEMENT

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Cross intentions - Budapest 2018 It is not the experience itself that amazes, but the gaze when is ready to seize the amazement. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

THE MEDICINE OF THE SOUL

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City park in autumn - Utrecht 2019 We will have to teach our children the medicine of creativity, which is never competitive, never live, never in conflict, and is capable of curing every evil of the soul. The Eternal Wandering (2020)

SUBTLE PLEASURE

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The road to the lighthouse - Ancona 2019 The pleasure is so subtle that it just can't be described. I'm talking about the shooting moment, cropping the image into a rectangle. Seeing how things take their place. Really priceless! The Eternal Wandering (2020)

A DESIRE TO SEE

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A desire to see - Utrecht (2018) This image testifies my desire to see, which is a universal desire, a normal abandonment to the sensations of the body. However, when we add to the experiences the dualistic scrutiny that divides, transforming the sensation into a mere rhetoric of values, qualities, and personal interests, here is the fictitious creative gesture superimposed on a fictitious story, a series of ideas and allusions that have nothing to do with Reality. The Reality (2020)