PHOTOGRAPHY

my work is about fragility

about the ephemerals of daily beauty

lost beauty

found beauty

about sadness and longing

about how we make a world from our imagination

a world to live in

I look for the small miracles in a fragile everyday life.

I find sensuality in forms, lines, colours; hidden and revealed,

in a world beyond the mirror.

Not an image of reality, but a different world.

Real in its own way.

Pictures are not images of reality; they reveal as much as they hide.

They never show the world 'as it is'; they create a world.

   When I was a child, near our garden was a shed, a hidden place where I sometimes went to play with my sister. There were lots of glasses piled one upon another, they were mirrors, they reflected a multiple world; it seemed one could enter these worlds one after the other; they were like Giordano Bruno's “infiniti mundi”.

   Like the Troubadours taught us Love as we know it today, photographs – and all arts – teach us about our world; they create it, as once Romantic Love was created (and is ours now).

   Often we recognize a new image as being ours already, maybe that is what Plato's ideas tell us; we see something that refers to something we already knew...

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  I'm especially attracted by transparencies; light that falls through leaves, flowers, fabrics, porcelain(...); setting something apart, showing something unnoticed before. I come from a world of graphic printing; for years I made etchings and dry needles (books) with my printing press, after living abroad with my family I returned to an almost forgotten passion for ceramics as well...

  I love colors, faces, traces, shadows, signs of use that tell a story...

  Photographing is part of my work as an artist. I use digital with enthusiasm but I love the craft, the handwork, of film. Most of my recent photographic work is made with medium format camera's.

  I want to combine different arts, to experiment and to find new ways (that usually are born from my many errors..; a bit as in cooking...  as in trying to educate children, as in growing flowers, as in loving...)...

Awards:

- the entry "Withered Amarillys Flower" received a Honorable mention in the International Photographic Awards (IPA 2008)

- a special mention as 'Autore Segnalato' (with work published) in the 'premio fotografico 2008 (Italy)'

- finalist for the documentary "My Backyard", LPA 2009

- finalist for the contest "Love & Pain & Beauty", LPA october 2009