ON ME

AND MY FAMILY

I have been always troubled by the idea of identity, which I always connect with a territory. I cannot imagine an identity, whatever it is, without a reference of a given space (and time).

Thus, people very different from me, instead of making me unease, intrigue me, fascinate me, making to ask myself new questions about what means to be human. That’s why I love to develope visual essays with groups of genuine people with the aim to understand what their origins and motivations are, what kind of relationship they have with the power, how do they transform the territory they live in.

At a personal level I had a hard time to find my own place, to know where I wanted to belong, which was my group, what was my identity so I somehow needed to understand others to solve my enigma. I realized all this afterwards, observing my choices when I started a new project on my own.

I don’t know if we see ourselves in the others or the others remind us that we also exist, anyhow the encounter is priceless.