Alberto Petracci
I always thought pictures were just something you take as souvenir from your holidays. A mug, a miniature of a monument, nothing more than objects we buy when visiting places far away and that end up getting dust on a shelf. Luckily things changed when my mother offered me an SLR camera for my twenty-something birthday, and I started with taking pictures of my girlfriend, my house, my surroundings... I was discovering little by little that by peeping through the viewfinder and setting knobs in different ways I could alter the spatial relationship between objects, play with backgrounds and shadows, and detach the context from its timeline. Heavy stuff, fortunately diluted in many meters of film: my average was a roll a day.
Here you are looking at pictures which are nothing else but Impressioni: marks left in my memory by the combination of ambient light, shape, color, perspective. In my journey through photography I always found amazing how limiting our field of view through a lens does actually widen the range of our perceptions. And I wanted to share this with you, allow you to discover that the same details that blend together into familiar landscapes acquire a vibrant life on their own once abstracted from the context, once given the privilege to be in focus.