Carraie, Italy
Italy, Lingering Past "Lingering Past" is a project I started on my first return to Italy, my Motherland.
I recorded these images using 140 years old lenses and Large format cameras.
The printing stage consists of a self-developed silver printing technique apt to carry the mood envisioned.
The drive being to achieve a feel less tied to standard photography, which married to simple compositions and soft lighting conveys a message of mood, silence and stillness.
My life experiences in the US have inspired me to visually explore my longing for a known simpler life and a more attuned relationship with architecture and the land.
This, being a personal project, also strikes a cord in the Human Experience.
In fact, society is heading toward an existence void of connection with architectural surroundings often realized through big entities economical parameters.
Being an immigrant, I am given the rare opportunity of revisiting the importance of living in surroundings built with people's existence in mind. This enables me to render my perspective valuable to people who grow accustomed to these surroundings and to those who have reasons to long for them.
The evidence of this Past, lingering, creating tension with the Now, is here to teach us who we are.
By:
Domenico Foschi (USA) ©2008
Domenico Foschi was born in Bari, Italy, in 1962.
Although always exploring different kinds of creative media since childhood, he found that photography would be what he would stick with for many years to co-
me, after stealing his brother's camera for a short trip . He was nineteen at the time.
Not being able to afford a formal education in photography, he started to
study the work of the masters in books.
He found the expressive power of the wo-
rk of Alvin Langdon Coburn , Kertesz, Steichen, Stieglitz, Strand, Sander, Penn Avedon, and a few others, of pivotal importance to his direction as a Fine Art photographer.
Working in the Sergio Guidetti Studio Fotografico, he received "hands on " training on the use of large format cameras, to developing and printing techniques.
He then worked as a freelance commercial photographer in Ravenna, his home-town, shooting primarily for magazines, newspapers, the City Administration and
Political parties.
Soon he realized that commercial photography wasn't going to
allow him to explore his creativity in a more personal way.
D, F. moved in the U. S. in 1989.
Here he has produced six different portfolios,
ranging from portraits, to Urban Landscapes, to Still Life, to images of cemeteries statuaries. His commercial work took a direction on his own, mainly by
producing CD covers for recording artists and commissioned Fine Art Black and White Portraiture.
D. F. has received awards for his images, and his work has been published on View Camera Magazine, B/W Magazine, Silvershotz Magazine and other publications.
His work has been shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and in Galleries in Spain, Italy and the US.
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Use without written consent by the author (Domenico Foschi) is illegal and punishable by law.
