Vault 09 24

Dear photographer, what is your relationship with the archive?

I know this question is very painful for many.

We live in an age where images are made and shared immediately. And then, in their obvious uselessness, they no longer appear for many people. For a photographer, however, it should be different. And going to check the archive is a very useful exercise to understand many things about ourselves, about our evolution, about our change over time.

I do it from time to time and I recover certain images that make sense in the phase I'm in. I also find it to be an effective way to lower one's ego. Because it is also inevitable to think that certain things could have been avoided. I then, on the street but also as a portrait photographer, work a lot by adopting the stream of consciousness: this exposes me to more errors and photos that are simply a shortcut, a way of staying in the flow to generate the images I actually want.

Here I propose a selection of images that I recovered from the last analysis experience in my archive.