|
about
me
|
I was born in Roma in 1964 from Haitian father and Italian mother, lived in Roma (Italy), Aleppo (Syria), Amman (Jordan), New York (USA), Ahmedabad (India), London (UK), now living in Port au Prince (Haiti). Studies: not many, but tried to attempt the university in engineering for two months, after tried with graphic design school; in the meanwhile I was a mechanic (dream of my youth), a carpenter, a models builder for a design company, a builder, a gardener and a photographer assistant. Opened my first photographic studio in 1990 in Rome with 4 other photographers which we mainly used for great parties as was a huge place and we where all working on location. In 1993 we left the studio and I started changing my way of looking at things. Still there |
|
the
vision...
|
...is not hoping in a better world, it is more a trip in the hidden side of reality. Not really trying to change things, to make them appear what they're not, more giving them back the poetry that belongs to them and that some kind of forma-mentis has taken them off... ...maybe is trying to reestablish a short look on things, exactly like when we're in a crowd looking for someone we look always too far away... ...maybe is a floating-in-the-mud sensation where actions are in slow motion... |
| the iter |
when as a teenager I started taking photograph, I remember trying to copy the ideas of my idols. I was stroke by the rest of cigarettes squeezed on the asphalt by Irving Penn, and in a certain degree by the reevaluation of every day's life objects that the Pop-Art did 20 years before. At the time I just buried that attraction for the unusual. What I instead developed was a very precise shooting and lighting technique that I mostly used for my commercial and architectonical assignments. I had to wait about ten years for those ideas to be tired to be on a waiting list, and thereafter my philosophy changed completely and I was proud to refer to myself as to an artist, so I started exhibiting my works. This happened around 1994 |
