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LA FOTOGRAFIA È UN PONTE | Alessandra Chemollo | TEDxReggioEmilia


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good morning to you
I am very happy to be here when
I was in high school
I had a friend who was pulling fencing
He was an athlete who was training to that
National a very nice chest and his
right hand was definitely bigger
his left hand this because
It was a child every day as
a drop on the stone was training in
asymmetrically hand me the john
It came in one morning not so much mind
long ago I woke up I thought it
I wonder how the photograph the
doing photography for 30 years has changed
my body and especially my way
I think when it happens photographer
a special beautiful thing my
mind becomes fine and quiet, and you
It develops a kind of bridge that makes me
able to grasp the reality of the thing
in front of me that makes me capable of
extract images that are very
specifications that can describe
well the thing that I have in front
but that at the same time are also
images that go to awaken
a deep part of me that are like
to reveal the truth that I very
They are often able to understand only after
because in my thinking
My words come a little later
we could say that the difference more
great that between a speech made
with the words that are not words
as if they were beads of a
necklace and a speech with
photography that tells us
photography’s what the
Photography is as if freeze
the intuition that we have of that
What allows us to take us home
after arch and it is a great thing a
revolution in thought in this
day dedicated to beauty and how
we can all try to
restore the value of beauty and
also use the beauty to awaken
that to which we hold and to give
value can not forget a book
very important for us photographers
it is even called beauty in
Photography is a book was written
by a gentleman named robert adams
who said many things but said a
very special thing that has the power to
an image he says that the etymology
Persian the word paradise is a
decentralized and robert place to say in
after all even the framing does not place
Walled we could say that the frame
is the photographer’s paradise thanks to
Photographer framing it succeeds
precisely to steal a piece of the world and
Space can take it away
and this subtraction that he is at the bottom
It is what allows to remove
this piece from a memory
undifferentiated which so carefully
borges described in his wonderful
ireneo funes an undifferentiated memory
that without this it would be a subtraction
depositing of waste
and thanks to this subtraction
thanks to the fact that I can commit
a series of insights that I can
think then we could say just that
the most important difference of
Photography is just that build
an image through a sort of
layering of meaning
The photographer chooses what to take
the way in which he chooses may vary
because
It depends on the relationship that he has with
time the relationship that he has with
the raid that the case is within
its framing are photographers
it’s like playing tennis
They must catch a ball on the fly There
are photographers that instead it’s like
They threw of employees and do not know
well what they will pull up are
photographers lurking and must
expect to wait for some
What can reveal what
they are looking for and then there are
photographers who are there waiting for you
because it is the duration time
as life who want to register but
wanting to get to the bottom of this
I would tell you what the words necklace
which for me it is a visual synthesis
so you an image that I stole in
These days in Venice and the image
taken from an inscription that recalls a man
died at the end of a long life that
his loved ones have decided to remember with
a synthesis that somehow sums
with an image with the power of a
image the sense of visual synthesis
certain that all these words that
I do on the way that photography
for me on how photography has
I changed my mind developing
atrophying of the other parts of
as I also interact with the scene
changing as well has some physical
shown as my own look
It is going to change the scene until you get
paroxysm of being a projector
Actually all these things that
Photography has given me in these
thirty years here I have a lot because
I am what I am
for those things that I had the
Possibility of
deepen still leave me a
doubt an important main question
and it’s ok but if all this is for me
then what is the world that I am a
ie the photographer more generally to
What is now in Spring
2017
at a time when the photograph to be
Attention has become a tool
so as not to be present at our
present in which photographing before
look here does not show himself before
see what is the point today that there are
professional photographers still a
value today photography to somewhere
so inerpicarci in this reasoning
then again I would step back and
I would like to explain a little more specifically
What is in my job I
Photographer do it for thirty years spaces
and say that my work would have a
great vocation to be simply
a reduction because they reduce a space
within a shot seems
completely reduced why not
it is
it needs to be an interpretation and
because it is an interpretation or things
I have the tools it
This interpretation is tell me
Levels may overlap of
I thought when I go
interpret, and so very often I have to
I also have to investigate the sighting
centuries that have centuries in which they are
changed the codes of representation
architecture I have to do all this
let me explain what it implies
architectural project I have
translate the idea that the architect
transferred in the work that I’m
I’m looking more representing
But I’ve got to do all this
without all this knowledge all
these thoughts all these things that
I have to study go as noise
the left side of my brain
stop me from building the bridge that
I need to go to photograph
to go to tell with an image
this thing I need to be the light
control my work in a few
so I need to understand to let
talk about the thing that I have in front of me
wondered many times if what I
I a way that if there is a
question that is asked from things
I’re photographing whether there is a
mode for taking pictures that is more faithful
other whether this choice is whether it is
more just
also with respect to the idea that has generated
the work and with respect to time that is if
there is a way in which things we
ask to be photographed but
back to the main question now
long ago, ten years ago I spoke in
car and listened to the radio
hailed as the power of an image
a fragment of a transmission in which
it was said that the company controls
Individuals one of the ways in which
company controls individuals make
them believe that systemic problems
have an individual solution while
It is systemic problems that do not
They can be solved individually
that can only be solved at
systemically because it means
also collectively all together
then I thought, but then I all
what I do to be good
to do well the things I do well
ethically I mean all the way to
I do to leave a better world
of what I found, perhaps not enough
it does not make sense
maybe I have to make one more step
maybe I have to change the container and
so I thought I want to be
fuse is of course I had to do it using
I am doing what I can do what I know
do
so I started as the first action
mix the way I work with
that of reportage therefore not
think that photographing the spaces and
photograph people are two kinds
photographic distinct but they can
be two parts of a same
explanation of the same story I
He started working with isabella whale
of jerusalem and then subsequently with
I orsenigo a sheet with whom I worked and
lived for twenty years
isabella we have developed a
important project to tell
positive and negative values ​​of the plan
landscape of Sardinia
The landscape plan that has earned
soru reached a very important prize
European union and head of its
governor what happens happens
that if I want to defend a territory
from the aggression of a tourist market
very violent and I do it to the sound of
laws and decrees do not work because the
model of the Emerald Coast entered
so strongly in the minds of
who it is no longer simply
speculator who makes a piece of crap but it
also the individual who must take a
house is a piece of crap because her
model has become that guy so
I’m going to go to cultural action
to bring culture to be the
infiltration when you have an arm
does it hurt
I do it in a capillary or the
model and then the wrong one wins
I thought that photography can
just used to go to inoculate
that this new way of thinking but
that we must find a way to do this is
a new idea that you have to understand you have to
run must also compare
other then why in 2009 following
Eagle earthquake
we have reinforced a huge project
summoning all the young
They had young photographers
formed in university courses
venice architecture and we
tried in ten were about ten
photographers have been working for a year and
go to bridge the huge gap
between what we saw is
that was told us that it was a
shameful thing absurd and above
to use the theme of this disaster
a city that no longer exists
to make people understand what
It means as a friend as he says
said nicoletta a dear friend
Aquila what being orphaned
a city to live in a place that has
lost its historical center its
the hall on all its sites
libraries do not have any more
location identification level
Collective so we did then
This shows that it is very important
He went first to venice
Ducal Palace and then shot in others
places making sure that none of
We signed on his pictures because
was a tribute to the eagle but we
much discussed together how
build this project
we say that we have a group of
Working all together
we produced this work the last
act now than four years ago for a job
who was born together by a shared idea
roberto antonio with tailors and the cecco
still work to bring the eagle
eagle 50 photographers and make them work
side by side
each with a city that’s because
if I feel that the photograph of
the landscape is not intended
the American who has to send the
postcards but to awaken the value of
common good in the inhabitants of that place
it is clear that the only chance
I was putting together the expert eye
a trained photographer with an eye
close of a city so that
They can feed each other and been
a very special experience we
We worked together for a week
Photographers have discussed between work
method of content
citizens have fed a lot
this process and I think they are
He was fed but it is a project too
great for a group of photographers
we are very hopeful beaten
but we could not involve the
those same institutions institutions
that fill the mouth of the word
participation and do not think that
culture is vital that it is
Return the culture that
He knows that photography as a visual culture
It is a necessary tool to go
to talk again of participation and
This scenery and the big bet
that photography can be back
useful and that a photographer can work
for something more than an exhibition
a gallery that can make us see
something more of her navel when
photographing the landscape all together
we may think that culture also
the visual
It is a nutrient that is essential
this is to close again with a
robert adams thought of that
photography can regain its
reconciliatory value allows us to
reconcile these places
disfigurement of the landscape
wonderful in which we live and can
let us say all together
I’m happy to be here thanks
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