Submission

"Notturni" is a work in progress started two years ago. The project stems from the attraction towards some particular lighting situations in urban environments at night. Immediately I understood that the intention of the shot was to be non-documentative, but expressive. From the observation of my own photographs in the first part of the research work I realized that of the landscape to which I was facing, I actually emotionally perceived only a few portions. The reality datum from which I started, the landscape, was necessary, since the inspiring subject was contained in it, but some elements had to be removed in order to activate my language. In this way, post-production work is fundamental in order to subtract and use darkness in a process that preserves the attention for the tones, the framing, the light, the sharpness (which are part of my photographic background) to which I stand, however, a second creative moment of re-elaboration of reality. The elements of the urban landscape thus become used to reveal an intimate vision, while the place itself has no significance. In fact, it is abstracted and reduced to the skeleton from which the perceived atmosphere comes to life.