Pompei #1 - Limited Edition 1 of 25 Print

In my work I start from two primary elements of nature that are important in my personal history: water and roots. I use water as a leitmotiv to push the observers into a flow, visual and sensual, in which they perceive the current dangerous environmental conditions on this earth caused by human actions. One of my technical processes includes overlapping (a specific way to overlap) two or more image frames using the analog Holga camera. The merging of more frames is not a digital manipulation or postproduction, it is manually performed in the shooting phase and it is made possible by the unique characteristics of the camera (Holga), (such as for example the possibility to manullay move forward the film, or the casual light leaks). These characteristics often determine some unplanned or unexpected results. The Holga camera offers a mix of extremley specific way to use a film and some (utterly) uncontrollable factors. This tecnique is simultaenuosluy very precise and superficial. . My process also envolves the digital manipuation of colors to an extent that the original landscape is turned into abstract and conceptual. The manipulation generally consists in partial desaturation of specific colors or in a very delicate deduction of some elements. The original landscape is abstracted inviting the viewer to consider the conceptual.