Surrealism
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Wonderland Affair
I approached the Arctic undergoing its visual and scientific-literary charm. In deepening my knowledge of it through anthropology and non-fiction texts, I get confirmation that halting my analysis at climate change and heavenly scenarios did not bring justice to this…
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False freedom
I photographed these fishes in a public aquarium, where they are admired by visitors. The fishes are captive, but they appear dignified. I say they appear because, unlike other animals, the fishes do not change their facial expression. But do…
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Salt
When I was 7 years old, I suddenly decided to train my willpower by eating salt. I didn't know anything about the harms of salt. I started with very small portions and made a decision to end up when I'd…
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Possible covers
“Possible covers” is dedicated to different ways of hiding things. Sometimes this hiding could be an organic gesture, sometimes it is a necessity. But overall the layers contain another one inside. Even glance could be the way of hiding in…
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Undue juxtapositions
These days, and at my age, as well as being justifiably worried and uncertain about the future, indeed precisely because of this, one must also know how to have fun and play, as and as much as one can, with…
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Surreal squares
Slightly surreal atmospheres are the theme of this short collection of images of places or people, collected mainly in Rome, but not only, almost all of them during this year. A year, like the two that preceded it, that is…
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Illusions
The only sound I can hear in Zirou Lake is the rustling of the leaves falling into the water. An absolute stillness on the surface of the lake, not letting me realize where the material is and where the reflection,…
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Something inappropriate behind the back
Often there are things behind our backs that we are not aware of: the gaze of a stranger, rather than a background that contrasts with the idea of us that we would like to convey, or something else vaguely unexpected…
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Map – existence
Milan Italy Afterwords I have been taking pictures around different cities daily for decades now.Suddenly, everything starts looking as a map of a place that has no definite name or belonging. The rhythm of the crowd, loneliness, fascination, and tiredness…
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Fragments of Dream
Kolkata India Thirst in my eyesThirst in my soulYes, thirsty I’m… The Spring is comingwith a lot of dreamsCan you see the colours?Can you listenthe colour of my dreams? Yes, thirsty I’mThirst in my soul… The storm is on the…
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Road Trip: Freedom, Nostalgia, Adventure
Vistula Bank near Płock. Poland Road Trip is always an adventure, especially when you travel alone. Freedom and independence in a world full of multiple dependencies is great. Travel gives distance. Detachment from the problems that we build for ourselves…
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The sleep of reason
Strolling through the city, it is not unusual to find shop windows where the need to catch the eye by surprising is combined with substantial bad taste.
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Shadows, as ‘Woland’ would have said
The shadows of objects or people can be distorted, and then perhaps with their monstrous shapes they whisper thoughts or hidden meanings, hidden beneath the usual appearance; and only an oblique gaze can grasp this complex ambiguity.
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Female – a recomposition
Roma Italy I stared at the image multiplying in an action suspension, but I could not fully seize the mystery of meeting oneself. I chased a movement, I courted it as to let it fall in my lens, it slipped…
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The oblique look and the City
Roma Italy Walking around Rome with a camera is undoubtedly a privilege, and it’s not the first time I’ve said so, but the question is: what kind of gaze to use?One can certainly look directly at the object of interest…
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Alien presences, a surreal conspiracy theory
Roma Italy For some time now, the city has been pervaded by mysterious, alien presences.Groups of strange beings, one half resembling small saprophagous dinosaurs, the other half technological chimeras, gather in darkened huddles on the pavements.Humans ignore them, pretending not…
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What is life in the commuter town of the post-Soviet space?
Saint Peterburg Russia People used to return from the business center to a residential area to spend the night and go back to work. Therefore, the area is called the sleeping community. Nowadays the infrastructure has grown. Everyday life is…
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Special place, in contact with nature
Ciociaria Italy In a special place, alone, nomadic, in contact with nature, a musician lives a new, primordial, genuine experience. A return to the origins, to the contact between man and nature, an indispensable relationship for art. Kosmiz
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Screen
Nizhny Novgorod Russia My project is an allegory of life’s perception. I am trying to structure my thoughts and views to fit myself, and to structure myself to fit events and points of support. During self-isolation, being cut off from…
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Abracadabra: London’s Transcendent Reverse
These photographs are the first in new series which looks at what lies on the periphery, between the realm of our cognition and the ineffable.
