The acceptance of diversity in our society is still a pending task. There are still corners of society and movements of thought that are unfortunately coming back into vogue, that hypocritically fill their mouths with do-goodism but who still think that “the different ones” are "waste" from our society.
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I am a curious of life with idealistic tendencies and a fighter. I believe that shadows are the necessary contrast to enhance the light. I am a lover of nature, of silence and of the inner beauty. My photographic history is quite silent publicly but very rich personally, studded with some great satisfactions such as: gold and silver winner in MUSE Awards 2023 Special Category; Highly Commended in IGPOTY 2022 Wildflowers Landscapes and Breathing Spaces, published photographer in 1X; honorable mention in Pollux Award 2019; commended in IGPOTY 2019 B&W section; highly commended in IGPOTY 2018 Abstract section; selected in 2014 for Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña and in VIPHOTO. Group exhibitions in: Atlántica Colectivas FotoNoviembre 2015 and 2013; selected for the Popular Participation section GetxoPhoto 2020 and 2015; ”PhotoVernissage (San Petersburgo) 2012; DeARTE 2012 y 2013. A set of my images belongs to the funds of Tecnalia company in Bilbao, to the collection of the "Isla de Tenerife" Photography Center and to the Medicos sin Fronteras collection in Madrid. [Website]
My roots proudly lie in the deep South of Italy, precisely in Basilicata (or Lucania), a region of green mountains and arid limestone spaces, with two views of the sea, one on the Tyrrhenian Sea and the other on the Ionian Sea.
The life of a flower is short. One day of a flower corresponds roughly to ten human years. This is why flowers force us to confront the cruel fragility of life. Flowers therefore imply much more than their beauty; they remind us that even in decay the time of life passes.
In my previous article “Photography or Promptography” I talked about how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the visual language; how it is making us question axioms that seemed consolidated and how it is causing a schism in the photographic world. In this article I will talk about Waitography, that is, the photography of waiting.
The “photographic language” has evolved over time, moving ever further away from photography and, at the same time, it has fed back into the concept of photography in such a way that no one knows how to distinguish where one concept begins and the other ends. The images obtained using AI are intended to further expand the concept of photographic language
They are usually called artist studios: they are the laboratories and ateliers where artists carry out their creative activities, but also their craftsmanship and the boring but necessary work to ensure that a work sees the light.
The ancient Greeks contrasted the cosmos with chaos. The cosmos is the universe understood as a harmonious and ordered complex, that is in contrast with the chaos of matter. They said that before Chaos there was nothingness; therefore, Chaos is the personification of the primordial state of "emptiness"
We are experiencing a turning point; indeed, I would say a revolution in the artistic disciplines, especially those relating to visual art; it is the beginning of a new Era in which the current paradigms will no longer be valid, in which reality will be questioned or modified through alternative realities.
I did not know or at least I had never thought about it, but there is an incredible and surprising connection between the world-famous mosaics of Ravenna and the arbëresh of San Paolo Albanese, a very small village in Basilicata, completely unknown to tourists who visit the Italy.
Portugal is for me a country of cracked and yet brilliant beauty; when you are there, you breathe its decadent and yet amazing grandeur; a lifestyle that is reluctant to emergencies and even to fashionable is perceived; impervious to the most vulgar novelties. The liturgies of haste and appearance there seem to be somewhat deflated.
Light and time. These two essential concepts in photography are also fundamental for our being and in our life. Here and now, I feel that the time has come to talk about the time.
In its evolutionary path, humanity has always been characterized by the desire for knowledge. This desire, this curiosity, this drive has undoubtedly been one of the main engines of progress.
Reading the book "The Secret Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben, undoubtedly marked a before and after in my life and in my way of relating to botany and the plant universe.
Climate Change is unfortunately a concrete and dramatic reality. Yet a large part of the world population, however, does not admit it
The title of this article I have borrowed by Ferran Adriá. In 2015 I visited a groundbreaking and innovative exhibition in Madrid at the Fundación Telefónica, “Auditing the creative process” by the Catalan master chef.
More than a year has passed since when, a virus with a size between 50 and 140 nanometers has put humanity in check and especially our way of life.
Throughout this long year that is being marked by the rhythms and restrictions associated with the pandemic, many of us have realized that having a creative tool such as photography in our “backpack” has often been our anchor of salvation.
An image only makes sense if it "sees the light" and if it is seen by someone. Otherwise it would be just a visual thought. In my opinion, the best way to bring an image to life is through a book.
In English there are two words to identify the two types of loneliness that can be felt: loneliness, which defines a state of negative solitude, normally imposed; solitude, which defines the state of being alone, but not feeling alone.
We have to doubt a lot, always, more and more often. Do not take anything for granted; we must not hang on to questions, waiting for others to give us an answer; we must always seek our own answer.
ICM photography is a type of photography that is done with instinct, you are never sure of what you will get, but at the moment of shooting, I know what I would like to achieve. According to this idea, I consequently move the camera and set the times and diaphragms.
If a year ago, anyone had told us that we would count almost a million and a half deaths from a pandemic and just over 55 million infected, we would have called him crazy or at least, qualified as someone who brought bad luck.
Genius Loci is a Latin expression that indicates the “essence of the place”, its unique and indistinguishable nature. The Genius Loci is the bearer of identity.
Everyone knows Cartier-Bresson's attention to social issues. I did not imagine that in this strange and atypical summer I would have stumbled upon a jewel in a remote corner of the world.
We live in a technologically advanced but emotionally primitive world; a world in which we often keep the feeling and the living totally at a distance which, instead of mutually supporting and helping, they hinder each other.
