A group of young people hunt for the right spot and the right instant, for the fleeting color awaiting their attention. They don't photograph what they see for what it is in itself, but rather they set into motion a change of meaning, pushing the objective toward the symbolic.
For the one who takes pictures, this is not a neutral process. But do neutral processes even exist for those who make works or objects of art?
Whatever the experience of the author, whatever the technique in use, and even when falling short of the status of art, the object produced is the product of a powerful, changeable subjectivity.
Thus John, photographing in color with the Nikon pinhole, shows us presences from outer space in the ancient city. (Literary precedents come to mind, such as Ennio Flaiano's Un marziano a Roma.) Emily indeed finds a flying saucer landing next to the Tevere.
Each of these young photographers has begun to understand that with a digital camera, or even with the slow procedure of the large-format view camera, or even more, with the pinhole camera, we can recharge reality with a metaphorical, even metaphysical sense. Most of all, they have learned to respect the time needed for attentive observation, dedicating themselves to whatever it is they are observing, be it a plant, stone, or face, reproducing a reality that only superficially resembles the real, and often creating a truth that is objective and imaginative at the same time.
Photo exhibition by students of John Cabot University's July courses in photojournalism, digital and analog (pinhole) photography.
Professors Serafino Amato, Donald Winslow, and Jochem Schoneveld
location of the exhibition: Studio 9
Via della Moretta
Direttore Patrizia Rufini
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