The Improper manners project is the portrait of stereotyped characters who are decontextualized from their space, their reality and their time.
In a world full of rules and about political correctness, incoherence is imposed, and the logic of good manners turns out to be flexible, confusing and permeable. What happens when everything is misplaced and unfamiliar? The challenge is to know how we force ourselves to observe from another perspective, breaking codes, reformulating new rules and hopefully laughing a little.
The characters or rather the prototype character is not altered by its outline, it adapts to its new reality where the obvious applies with new rules and the language is imposed with an altered and impermanent lexicon. Always insistently looking for a place to which it does not belong but where it always feels part.
Who took the picture? Finally all those people that we do not see in the photo but who are just passing by as any voyeurist ... Any human being with a cell phone in their hand, compulsively registering any moment.
Therefore, it was sought that production should be improvised. The elements had to be at hand, and the photos were taken without great preambles, nor previously looking for the locations. A point and Shoot Camera without lighting equipment, tripod, or assistants. The time of the photographic shooting should not exceed 30 minutes.
The project contains 19 photographs.
Francesca Spataro and Corinne Spitalier
