Project: ITALIA DOLCE VITA, 2013
In 2013 I started the street photography project ITALIA DOLCE VITA. That project worked as ferryman for my workshops in the following years in Italy. It is time to share it on this blog.
PROJECT TITLE: ITALIA DOLCE VITA
DESCRIPTION: In the title I mention the golden age (1958-1964) in a style known throughout the world, LA DOLCE VITA, the sweet life of the famous Fellini movie with the unforgettable Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, where it was evoked remarkably that indulgence typically Italian, that pleasure induced by eating well and dine a good wine, to enjoy staying at the table to talk, to crowd the beaches during the summer, maybe singing the last smash hit. In this project, aided by the physical distance from my country lasting three years, I want to document a country that basically has not changed too much in his research of being and living well, with food culture and art that permeates every level of Italian society, where even if you do not care much about Art and History you’ll anyway influenced because it is everywhere and permeates the lives of everyone who lives in the Old Boot.The Italians know how to enjoy life despite the economic crisis, despite the political situation. So you can see them still there, at the bar in the morning to drink their coffee, maybe eating a croissant. You can see them come together in the streets, well-dressed with ne linen shirts and sunglasses, with a newspaper under their arm. A lifestyle that ends up to involve the many foreigners who flock to the peninsula, even just as tourists. I wish that those who observe this project consisting of 100 photographs, focus on the clothes and colors, on the details of each photograph because it is with this approach that I decided to photograph and present this project. Through the many color images I tried to tell my country, now that I see it inevitably with different eyes, although I am still absolutely and proudly Italian. Now even more than before.
The project then became enormous, involving my pupils in editorial projects. I realized in the following years a black and white documentation work but always linked to the mother project.
In May I will back in Italy where I will give 2 workshops, in Rome and Florence. Inscriptions are already open:
