work
Revealed identities #014
| category | Photography |
| subject | Human figure |
| tags | phonephotography, smartphonephotographer, street photography, Identità svelate by carlo traini, humanistic photography, photoequivalences, fine art, black & white, people, contemporaryphotography, photography, arte, portrait, fineartphotography, smartphonestreetphotography, photographysmartphone, mobilephotos, mobilephotographer, carlo traini, postphotography, Revealed identities |
| base | 60 cm |
| height | 40 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2023 |
"Revealed Identities" was created to expose a normally hidden identity trait I felt in the people I met.
The complexity of modern times and the increasing difficulty for younger generations in influencing and changing society have led many people to stifle their thinking and give up fighting for their ideals. Sediments of increasingly unspoken and hidden things are growing and growing inside many of us.
People are the main subject of this work, in which their faces seen as through a film frame make me perceive the internal boundary every human being has, protecting their own little amount of untold secrets and mysteries.
Portraits are the medium par excellence for conveying a search for identity — nowadays, though, we're living in an era in which it merely just feels like an automated gesture, a conditioned reflex. With "Revealed Identities" I wish to give a grammar rich in meta-psychoanalytic suggestions back to portraits, through face transfiguration and exposing (via its own negative image) a split identity connected to much deeper and more insightful perceptions than we may initially think.
The diptych condition between positive and negative image aims to create a circularity in the dialogue, in the reflection and in the search for the deepest personality of the subject.
The extraordinary uniqueness of each person is what I'm looking for, often by treading beyond the visible; a peculiarity I can perceive in a single, precise moment possibly during any kind of occurrence: identity and personality also depend on reality, in fact, and are therefore susceptible to events such as my encounter or the conversation I just had with the subject.
This peculiarity I've always been searching and fighting for precisely represents our singularity. We also are the things and behaviors we hide from others, possibly because they're unconventional, out of the ordinary, or just won't let us effortlessly conform to others.
Portraits are a metaphor for uniqueness and, at the same time, the boundary we set between us and the rest of the world, a place we could never do without, in order to claim our own outlook of it all.
Printed on Permajet Museum Heritage Printer fine art Paper 310gsm, "Revealed Identities" contains each and every one of us precisely because it urges the viewer to do an act of introspection, guided by their own thoughts and feelings.
The complexity of modern times and the increasing difficulty for younger generations in influencing and changing society have led many people to stifle their thinking and give up fighting for their ideals. Sediments of increasingly unspoken and hidden things are growing and growing inside many of us.
People are the main subject of this work, in which their faces seen as through a film frame make me perceive the internal boundary every human being has, protecting their own little amount of untold secrets and mysteries.
Portraits are the medium par excellence for conveying a search for identity — nowadays, though, we're living in an era in which it merely just feels like an automated gesture, a conditioned reflex. With "Revealed Identities" I wish to give a grammar rich in meta-psychoanalytic suggestions back to portraits, through face transfiguration and exposing (via its own negative image) a split identity connected to much deeper and more insightful perceptions than we may initially think.
The diptych condition between positive and negative image aims to create a circularity in the dialogue, in the reflection and in the search for the deepest personality of the subject.
The extraordinary uniqueness of each person is what I'm looking for, often by treading beyond the visible; a peculiarity I can perceive in a single, precise moment possibly during any kind of occurrence: identity and personality also depend on reality, in fact, and are therefore susceptible to events such as my encounter or the conversation I just had with the subject.
This peculiarity I've always been searching and fighting for precisely represents our singularity. We also are the things and behaviors we hide from others, possibly because they're unconventional, out of the ordinary, or just won't let us effortlessly conform to others.
Portraits are a metaphor for uniqueness and, at the same time, the boundary we set between us and the rest of the world, a place we could never do without, in order to claim our own outlook of it all.
Printed on Permajet Museum Heritage Printer fine art Paper 310gsm, "Revealed Identities" contains each and every one of us precisely because it urges the viewer to do an act of introspection, guided by their own thoughts and feelings.
