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How I made my second exhibition (and two more were postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19).

Back in 2014 I started a portrait project that took me five years to complete, a task that I felt was achieved only when I reached a high number of decent pictures – high enough for the idea behind the project to be fully expressed. Yet until 2018, the project was only partial: Giuditta Fullone came into it by drawing her own interpretations of the portraits – adding a further meaning to the images. And on January 25th 2020 we made an exhibition in Milan: Silenzio eloquente.

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How I had (a rough time choosing 15 pictures for) an exhibition with a friend.

Back in June 2016 me and a friend, Pietro Consolandi, decided to consider making a joint photo exposition – focusing on the pictures we took during our respective trips to Japan in that same year: I went with a friend for new year’s eve holidays while he went later in spring by himself.

We both had also previously been to Japan – my first trip was by myself, his in a group – and we shared the belief that a certain degree of knowledge of a country is required to enjoy it. I don’t mean that one has to have a complete understanding of the place one is travelling to, but the aim of the trip should not be just discovering it: it should not be solely history and social matters, but even just the everyday dimension of how the inhabitants live their own streets and country.

Speaking for myself, I tend to try being invisible – not to catch what they wouldn’t want to show a tourist, but just to be perceived as one of its own by the country itself, the shops, the streets and the poles, being given the chance to experience the same calmness and silence one feels when at home.

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