PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography represents a fast, fast and enormously impactful means of transmission. Photographing means immortalizing something in a precise moment; something can be an object, an action... anything... which was like this at that moment and will remain like this in our eyes every time we look at a shot.
The link between architecture and photography has always existed, many architects have loved and love to immortalise mainly architecture or landscapes; it is no coincidence that the projects themselves are transmitted mainly through photographs. Architecture magazines are full of photos of individual projects and certainly not of sections and plans, which are much less readable and certainly more suitable for a limited circle of people.
The reason for my connection with photography has lasted for 20 years now, starting from the old cameras (Dash), up to the very modern Reflex cameras. I must have taken millions of photos, but I have always been very critical and I have almost never appreciated my way of representing what I saw, sometimes finding it too simple, sometimes extreme and sometimes even devoid of real personal emotions.
In my opinion the shot (not that of communions and baptisms which is quite obvious) should give emotions, it should make us think and rethink, it should make us relive and fill our eyes with the light or darkness that was there in the moment in which it is been done. An image that is printed flat must still be alive, otherwise it would be fine in albums to keep closed in the family bookcases, predominantly flat albums... the image must live with us, give us that something extra... and give it too to other people who watch it.
There's no point in making a monologue about photography, there are already too many... I'll leave you with my shots, my emotions, and my moments.
V.M.
P.S. THE PHOTOS HAVE NO FILTERS, RETOUCHES, OR OTHER EFFECTS... I PHOTOGRAPH WHAT I SEE AND SHOW OFF WHAT I HAVE PHOTOGRAPHED!