The Time of a Cigarette

The image lasts the time of a cigarette. In total darkness, I open the shutter a moment before lighting a cigarette, and I leave it open for the time the subject needs to smoke it. Doing this, the film is allowed to record this sort of dialogue with someone that you don’t see. A dialogue made of words, movements and moments of silence. A cigarette is a break, a moment of intimacy, something that slowly destroys us.