Artist Feature

Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.

FARANG A selection of 15/49 In the last three years I've taken pictures in Italy, France, Turkey, Thailand and Kosovo. I took pictures of unfamiliar places, pictures of strangers. The flash of the camera has consecrated my epiphanies, impressing the shroud that lies on the subjects whose truth I’ve discarded. These images are relics of the invisible. STATEMENT To me, taking pictures has always been a way to collect visual notes about reality and particularly about my perception of that. Reality and photographer’s emotional and visual fund mould together in order to create a personal interpretation, according to my belief that photography’s capacity lies in its evocative power more than its narrative factor. When I started to take pictures,I have been charmed by how photography was enabling me to find something that maybe I had already found, but that was hidden inside me. The photographic quest started to assume another meaning, another value that gives life to a journey of discovery that sees its arrival in myself. As Dorothea Lange has always said, the camera is only an instrument to suggest people how to look at reality without the camera; I’ve often focused my work on elements that everyone has in front of his eyes everyday, trying to break people’s blindness to reality’s wonder, aesthetic madness and emotional fascination that instead swells and shrinks inside me everyday. My photography is very egoistic. I’m not interested in telling anything about the relationship between me and my subjects, their identity or their emotions. I use them to communicate what I feel in front of them.