alessandro – New Landscape Photography

Italy was for a long time a point of reference for the art and the beauty of the landscape.

Today this reality is heavily modified. The landscape is contaminated by an economy that knows no brakes. The contemporary era requires a reflection on our identity that is changing fast. I think that the problem is in the small changes every day because they are more difficult to understand. And this is the challenge that we have to win.

I took these photographs in different parts of Italy. They can show some little but important changes.

— Alessandro Cirillo, Bari, Italy

May 2, 2013May 3, 2013

Alessandro Ciccarelli

www.AlessandroCiccarelli.com

The Western world gives dark and negative connotations to the word “wild.” It rejects it.  On the contrary, wilderness is a return to primitive harmony that is the most resistant nerve.

This project is the calm attempt to represent an emotional etymology of the author’s wild side. It’s about the images of an instinct, a trace of an exploration and the resulting sensations.

 They are all frames of a mental and physical ecosystem to recompose from founding elements, evoked by a human representation. It is on the film and its colors that we can find the idea of water, air, earth and fire, but not into the portrayed reality, because this it is not immediately accessible.

The wild side, the inner one, includes, at varying doses, chaos, eros, all taboos and a sense of the unknown. It is the joint realm of the demonic and ecstatic, of the archetypal power, where the engines of teaching and changing — elements of an overwhelming power — originate.

 Returning to the wild is an inner practice which, everything taken into consideration, is unseemly in our time. Its investigation is a risk that not many are willing to take.

— Alessandro Ciccarelli, Rome, Italy

February 5, 2011

Alessandro Imbriaco

www.AlessandroImbriaco.com

Rome is living in a particularly critical period in dealing with new immigrants coming to the city in search of a job and a new life. One of the most visible elements of this crisis is the increasing number of illegal urban settlements.

This photo series is a small collection of these temporary and precarious “accommodations” developing both in the suburbs and in the city center. In those place, where asphalt leaves the space to nature, new immigrants (coming especially from East Europe and North Africa) can find a shelter.

The attempt of my work is to map these places, not with the intention of social denunciation or easy commiseration, but by trying to create a shared fantasy which belongs to all of us. The suggestion is the first idea we get of our world, if we think to children’s drawings, where fundamental things are condensed in a landscape with a tree, a little house and some people.

This basic landscape is what I am ideally trying to recreate in my pictures. Even if the house is just a mattress under a tree, or between two bushes, that place, at that moment, represents what we consider home: protection, habit, safety, the thin line between what is inside and what is outside.

— Alessandro Imbriaco