Naniwa project (2016-2020)

Naniwa, a city without a face ... This black and white analog photographic project began in late 2015. The Japanese name "Naniwa" (な に わ) refers to the old name of the city of Osaka, Japan where the urban photography project is being carried out. In the words of the Italian writer Italo Calvino, cities are like dreams, made of desires and fears, a synthesis that moves the urban element that by constructing / destroying space, mythologizes, producing a post-urban imaginary prodigal in signs and richer still in meanings. The physical space of the city that should denote a certain “neutrality” ends up “shrinking” the individual who upon trying to project himself in the collective has, before himself, the real denial of “being neutral,” undergoing the action of the very environment in which he lives. The Japanese society has as one of the leitmovs, does not always respect the differences standardizing behaviors and actions. Often, the influence of a group of individuals on the environment (consciously and unconsciously) occurs through the strength of their desires, the belief in their hopes, the overcoming of their fears and the investment in their dreams and fantasies. My goal here