It’s a selection of 39 b&w photos of Bari, my hometown.
Following the lesson of the great Italian photographer Gabriele
Basilico, I started exploring it trying to look at familiar places
with new eyes, like a "tourist" who gazes at an unknown place
and discovers interesting aspects which, on the contrary, escape
the superficial eye of the hurried city dweller for whom those
aspects and places have become stereotypes.
This approach allowed me to achieve a better knowledge of my
hometown, wandering in areas where I had rarely or never gone;
I let myself be surprised by hidden and unexpected sights,
sometimes in sharp contrast, sometimes in harmony, that, as a
whole, give back a personal, necessarily incomplete and
fragmentary idea of Bari (thence the title, ALMOST BARI).
However, this can apply to the description of any city, big or
small, that, like a living organism, is in constant transformation,
full of contrasts and never the same.
Awards SIFest 2015 (Savignano Foto festival, Italy- submitted potfolio Nominated in MU.SA photography blog by Sara Munari Listed in PhotoIreland The Library Project, Dublin, EIRE The Independent Photobook, Den Haag, The Netherlands WHONEEDSANOTHERPHOTOBLOG, Paris, France INDIE PHOTOBOOK LIBRARY, Washington, DC, USA LIBRAIRIE GALERIE ASCENSEUR VEGETAL, Bordeaux, France JOSEF CHLADEK on photobooks and books, Wien, AUSTRIA
