Give back to the sea his breath

A photographic project born in 2019 and still in the works, aimed at denouncing the impact of man on the environment; an environment so far perceived as a helpless stage for human actions. A series of set portraits where the center of the scene is man, as the creator and at the same time victim of himself, within a landscape he no longer recognizes as “Living Home.” The centrality of man in the portrait aims to immediately attract the viewer's attention, and only after it has been achieved, to decentralize the subject through a critical and disenchanted gaze that induces deep reflection. A man trying to re-emerge from the waters now choked by a polluting and disturbing product of consumer culture, plastic, which invades the oceans with millions of tons of waste annually, considered by most as “disposable” products but which in reality are destined to last for hundreds of years thus upsetting the delicate balance of ecosystems. The era of the 'Anthropocene has resulted in man considering himself above other living beings and thinking of himself as the only one capable of deciding and maneuvering the fate of the entire Planet. However, increasingly devastating atmospheric phenomena are exposing another truth and that is that of a Planet that reacts and defends itself against the abuse it has received; reactions that will have a bearing not so much on the fate of the Earth, which will survive us, but on the risk of extinction to which we ourselves have subjected ourselves. The goal of this project is thus a social and civic denunciation. The cold, somber tones of the images bring out a feeling of anxiety and dismay in the face of that dying breath of life that seeks to free itself from the transparent material it has produced; it wants to highlight what our future will be if we do not return to the Earth, if we do not reconcile with all the other living beings that are part of it, rescaling our place in the world. Our debt to nature is an ecological, social and cultural debt, and art can and should be a tool through which individual and collective resistance is made manifest