In the Darkless

In the circles of the orbits, in the rhythm of years, months and days, we get used to the order which remains unrecognized. During the day, we face the impression that we’re able to grasp the reality, to sense, to know, to be convinced that what we see is not deceptive. Nightfall bewilders us, seduces us into blindness, to closing the gates of knowledge and giving up the desire to penetrate deeper. And yet, it’s in the darkness that things are born and die; it’s in the night that the heavenly signs are brought out, according to which man has directed his steps for thousands of years. Darkness is only a lack of light. If we surpass our limitations and take a look around, we can see the enchanting colours and shapes that have stopped in the midnight calmness or that have been buffeted by alarming gusts. Driven by our accelerating heartbeat, we look at what we pass by during the day, and thanks to the shadows of the Moon we can understand the dimensions of the Earth; thanks to the sparkling stars we can perceive the infiniteness of space and time; and thanks to the echoes of our breath we realize our strength and fragility. The remnants of light, one four-hundred-thousandth of the day’s sunshine, the process of development. Photographs that denied the darkness. To be forced to immobilize and quiet down. To sense the movement inside. To experience the possibility of making the invisible visible. The landscape and man in the unseen, yet real light. All photographs in this series were taken at night, using only the moonlight and medium format film material.