People and words from Sarajevo

Portraits are both of persons who are part of my life and that I randomly met on the street, in the flow of life. A glance, the time for a brief chat - sometimes around a cup of coffee - and then the questions: “can I take your portrait ? can you write a message?” And we have a diptych… I say “we”, because I like to build my pictures on a relationship – even if temporarily – between the person and me. My first concern is the quality of the interaction. Then I move on to the esthetic and technical dimension. The photographic transposition of these encounters results in a cross-section of different "human profiles" that illustrates various aspects of the lives of people of Sarajevo: whishes and frustrations, dreams and fears, concrete demands and daily commitments. Past war concern is, obviously, in the background but not my obsession… This photographic work tends to have a participatory approach. The person and the photographer together contribute to create the image and a point of view. I try to reconcile the point of view of the photographer (my subjectivity) and the one of the portrayed person, providing him a free space of expression. It’s important for me to overcome the traditional relation subject–object in photography in order to establish a more humanizing subject-subject relationship.