Re-Start 5

This work was born of my encounter with a 1950s Polish bi-objective camera called "Start", sensitive to the poetic charm of the defects left on the film (scratches, jagged edges, stains, etc.), as metaphors for our own fragilities.

It results from a fusion of two photographs : one, black and white silver (taken with this old camera), highlights the beauty of imperfections ; the other, digital, brings color and contemporaneity.

This silver-digital composition combines two eras, two technologies, two aesthetics.

The International Prize Artists at the Jubilee was awarded to me for the complete "Re-Start" series, in December 2024, by the Fondazione Effetto Arte in Rome.