Me and photography

I recall saying in a conversation in 1998 I didn't like photography. Because photography is just a mutilation of reality, the transposition to the perception of one sense of what was experienced by five. That's why I have few memories of holidays, of festive moments. Because there are things that must be kept in memory, which, although more complete, fades with time, without being reduced to an image. I always think it's a waste of the moment to try to fixate it in a photograph.

But what I like in photography is something else, different, with greater emotional detachment. Sometimes spontaneous, other times more worked and constructed, a moment of beauty, specifically constructed not to be experienced with senses other than sight.

This is what I try to do, with what I know, with what I'm learning, using the little time I have available and always runs away...

Curiously, it was in the same year, 1998, that I started taking pictures. Since then I have been improving the photographic equipment I have, sometimes focusing more on the quality and quantity of equipment than on photographic production, always with a view to professionalizing my photographic activity.

It was in 2010 that my photographic posture changed substantially in a way that I hope will last. Two factors contributed to this change:

- The impossibility  (due to workplace incompatibilities) of aiming that photography would become a professional activity:

- A photography workshop in Paris (which I didn't attend).

If the first brought me a lack of responsibility for photography, a non-concern of trying to turn photography into something profitable, the second, through the precise report of those who were there, helped me to direct and better understand the path I intend to wander with the camera to attain something that really satisfies me.