From my outgoing long therm project ” See me, feel me…. heal me. ” Emotional transfer.
During the period of isolation and change due to COVID, many have felt lonely. All human beings have few things in common, a deeply rooted needs to be understood, listened to, and be forgiven. Emotional loneliness leads to the weakening of connections with reality and in the long run to the desertification of feelings and apathy. Virtual relationships cannot replace those in person. This project aims to remind people how to listen to life stories of unknown strangers and should stimulate an emotional transfer in viewers. It is so important not to lose this empathic ability without which the best part of our society and culture would never be created.
The project is made with all unstaged photos and comes from Sothern Italy (Calabria and Sicily) where people don’t like to talk about their lives (neither much to be photographed) but often their faces narrate everything for them. Every photo is a separate essay without any internal connections, apart from geographical connotations. The environment that did shapes the faces of my characters often offered them the most uncomfortable living conditions, so I wish to give them back “the voice” that local habitual behaviors ( linked also with mafia lifestyle) negated them and try to listen to their stories.

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