Light
The project "Light" is developed in India, between 2007 and 2008 and is more properly a trip. A month of travelling, during which I created a sort of photo archive.
Through the use of a Polaroid camera, I photographed and documented the people I met. The particular characteristics of the medium used, allowed me to instantly create unique and unrepeatable photographs. Each photograph was given by me to its “subject”, and along this lines, my archive is now in their hands. It consists in about forty images, and there is only one copy of each Polaroid except for one: the first one taken.
I have chosen to represent the entire project, and then the concept in its entirety through this "different" one image of which two copies exist: one in my possession, and another in one of two people who are depicted’s hands.
In this way, my decision to create an archive loses its brutality and acquires freedom, going directly into the hands of those recipients to which the archive itself is nothing but a game. |