intro | paolo | photocolor | aftersummer | remains | italiano
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Post-atomic
1996, a mid-September saturday morning, summer is drawing to a close. The weather is perfect, I drive absorbed in thought towards Lignano Pineta, towards the waterfront. I follow the road around traffic circles, until I reach an avenue of pines, the beach. I switch off the engine. In the silence, the view of familiar spaces and places, then the surprise: in that desolate setting, under that pastel washed sky, every small detail appears and flows in a way that I have never seen before: clearer, more obvious, questioning. And so I walk, increasingly thinking about when I will return. Right in the cold, in autumn and winter. Entering, photographing, recording. Then to see in photos the spell of bathing scenes - without the bathes - that were almost metaphysical, even absurd. Masters of their own
Adriatic,
breezy silence, before the next summer.
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Clear photographs A close-up of the horizon, made essential by the landscape and its colours.
The searching pursuit of a fine tuning with the places depicted.
The astonishment of a photographer who suddenly finds himself observed, interrogated by brazen spaces and settings, surprising and mocking. |
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Selection of 'aftersummer' photos, a study begun in '96 and still in progress. Original prints on glossy paper 40x50, on aluminium. Reala 100 and NPH 160 Professional films. For hi-res version, please write to pabloseason [at] yahoo.it
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::: The locations, from north to south: Trieste, Grado, Latisana, Lignano Riviera, Lignano Pineta, Lignano Sabbiadoro, Bibione, Eraclea, Caorle, Jesolo, Litorale del Cavallino, Lido di Volano, Lido di Pomposa, Lido di Spina, Lido di Savio, Marina di Ravenna, Lido Adriano, Lido di Classe, Misano Adriatico, Bellaria, Igea Mare, Cesenatico, Milano Marittima, Pinarella, Cervia, Rimini, Riccione. |
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© paolo ruggiero 1996 - 2010 |