"Taking photographs has set up a chronic voyeuristic relation to the
world which levels the meaning of all events".This concept seems
written today,but it dates back to 40 years ago(Susan Sontag-On
Photography-1973),and in the smartphone era it has taken even
greater power.James Estrin,journalist and photographer from the New
York Times,wondered in his NYTblog about which effect the
modern "tsunami" of photography could have.Estrin speaks about the
billions of mobile phones taking pictures of everything
(food,children,dogs,sunsets,feet,art,monuments and other), which
shoot so many actions as if they all have equal importance.As an
artist I did not want to put myself above others,therefore I did ’not
make a collection of web images to be used in my project, but I put
myself on the same level of common "users".I identified the most
photographed subjects and then I started to photograph them in my
dailylife.To do this I used an iphone application(Hipstamatic)in which
you can use 1188 different effects.For each subject,I took 54 different
photographs,each time changing the effect but keeping the same
shot,then I assembled them into panels with a clear POP aesthetics
inspiration.Choice due to the fact that today(as pointed out by Clement
Cheroux in his essay on September 11, 2011 and the photographic
image in the globalized events era-Diplopia-2009)the imaging market
is channeled and controlled by a reduced number of communicators
and the visual offer decreases, repeates and evens.The final work
consists in 972 photographs(18 panels of 54 photographs
each),through which I aimed at getting a sensory effect to dive deep
into the chaos of images that repeat themselves into a stupor and
whose subjects represent a sort of "nothing",but at the same time
aesthetically treating the final effect up to perfection.The result is a
short circuit which is that of our society,squeezed between the
exasperation of aesthetics and the paucity of content.
Born in Florence, Italy, on 03 30 1965, where he still lives. In 1998 he graduates from the photography school Art.E in Florence. From 2003 to 2005 he develops the project â??Reflexionsâ?? in Paris, with others photographers under the supervision of Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret. Then He had an intense exhibition activity in Italy and abroad either in public than private museums and gallery, the last one in saint Petersburg at the photography festival in september 2010. He got several prizes. First prize in A better world in 2008, in portfolio ariosto 2007, honored mention in 2008 and 2009 in italian professional photographer association Tau Visual award for photojournalism, two honored mention in IPA international photographer awards PRO in 2010.
He published in several magazines, one of them Vanity fair.
In 2008 he published his first book Mirror
