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Severely afflicted with wanderlust....

Influences: Sebastião Salgado
Abbas
Gabriele Basilico

Photographer / Architect Gabriele Basilico perhaps sums up best the shift in aesthetic sensibility I relate to as hyper-media and the pixelated, digital world of instant, electrified imagery bombards our senses.....:

"The photographic culture that my generation referenced was full of myth, of widespread and commonly held views, such as Cartier-Bresson's 'decisive moment.' To slow down vision was for me a small revolution in the way of seeing and even a return to the past, to when photographers, from technical necessity, used slow film and large cameras with tripods. They could represent the world only in a static manner. But this 'slowness of the look,' attuned to the photography of places, became for me a lot more: it is an existential and 'philosophical' attitude through which to try to find a possible 'sense' in the external world. " From Work Book 1969-2006.