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May 5

New contribution to the blog

“Credo che il compito della fotografia non sia quello di fornire delle certezze, ma quello di porre delle domande.”
– Luigi Ghirri

I believe that the task of photography is not to provide certainties, but to ask questions, to quote Luigi Ghirri. Well, how much you are availble to put this in your work? I questioned myself. And I see a lot of photographs everyday. Honestly I don’t see many questions raising up.

Then I studied the work of another great author: Guido Guidi.

“Io non fotografo mai per spiegare qualcosa, ma semmai per lasciare qualcosa di incompiuto, da completare con lo sguardo di chi guarda.” - Guido Guidi

When approaching the urban landscape through photography, Ghirri reminds us that the goal is not to document the obvious, but to uncover the invisible layers of meaning within the everyday. The city isn’t just buildings and streets — it's a complex organism made of signs, habits, absences, and contradictions. This post is an exploration of how we can photograph the urban with this in mind, rejecting clichés and instead embracing ambiguity, curiosity, and a more poetic gaze.

Ghirri and Guidi offer us two fundamental keys to approach urban photography: the first is the ability to question and not resolve, the second is the refusal of the closed, definitive image. Photographing the urban, then, does not mean recording the evidence, but looking for an opening, a glimmer that allows the viewer to enter, imagine, complete. In this post, I start right from here: from a way of looking at the city that does not pretend to explain it, but to listen to it.

I see a lot of statements through photography today. It is often than in the past a closed message. Some of these photographers would pretend also to explain their images. Because the intent is to offer always a message. Are we sure that is the right way to approach the urban? I am not sure. It is also a matter not making the usual: to find the “photographic” composition can lead to boring images and I don’t want that. There are principles in anticomposition too.

I embrace the condition of imponderable and aim for a visceral approach, I have to feel the click with my body.