Intimate portraits
A “work in progress” project.
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“Intimate Portraits” is a journey into the inner self, a collection of images that explore human presence as an emotional trace, as a reflection of a state of mind rather than an identity. The subjects, predominantly female, almost never fully revealed or defined, do not tell a personal story, but evoke a universal and profound feeling. More than faces, they are presences: fragments of a thought, a memory, a dream. The atmosphere is suspended, sometimes rarefied, sometimes immersed in environments that seem to float outside of time.
Thanks to the slowness of the means used, medium and large format film cameras, the relationship with the subject changes radically: each frame requires time, attention, and listening.
Each portrait is a passageway, a threshold between what is shown and what remains hidden, between the image and the imagined. As in dreams, the narrative does not follow a linear logic: it slips from one figure to another, leaving the viewer with the task of reconstructing meaning, or simply allowing themselves to be carried away by the sensations that the images evoke.
“Intimate Portraits” is an invitation to slow down your gaze, to pause in your perception, to recognize the subtle mystery of the human being. All the images have been printed using an ancient technique called cyanotype: for the author, the only possible way to restore the intimate, tactile, and imperfect dimension of vision.