Mimmo JODICE
“All my work is born out of a moment of emotion, all my photography is the result of a particular encounter that determines my unique state of being. It’s as is the forms, the objects, the landscapes and the light were preparing for me, always awaiting me. Beneath an appearance of normalcy, my works hold and evoke a deep stirring inside of me for all that has occurred or will occur; and reveal memories of times past.”

Franco FONTANA
“Taking photographs is an act of knowledge – it is a taking possession. What we photograph are not images but reproductions of ourselves. Creativity does not illustrate or imitate. It interprets, thus becoming the quest for an ideal truth. Creative photography does not reproduce but interprets by making the invisible visible.”

G. Berengo GARDIIN
“The photographer views the world differently from non-photographers because the photographer wants to – I don’t want to say seal – but appreciate the situation.”

Works from the exhibition “Italia Inside Out” at Palazzo della Ragione Fotografia, Milan through June 21, 2015

Charles H. TRAUB
“Italy looked to me like a dystopia whose inhabitants acted as if they were living in heaven. Not all of them, of course, but many. And those many ended up in my pictures. I thought they might be viewed as typical, you know, not universal types, but common enough to be significant in a representative way.”

Luca CAMPIGOTTO
“As a photographer, my fate is to remain forever hostage to my own gaze, destined to the mission of memory, to the circular motion of nostalgia.”

By Davide BRAMANTE
“My way of photographing is identical to the way I remember, think, dream, hope and imagine. Everything happens through the overlapping of time and space. I use photography in the same way as I use my mind.”

Anders PETERSEN
“In short, people are always my most important source of inspiration, and I love Rome.”

Maurizio GALIMBERTI
“Photography is an instrument that creates emotions without the barrier of perfection. It is exactly through imperfection that emotions emerge. I started with polaroid, but my search for emotional strength has been going on also in the digital age. To me, photography is a means to devour reality and capture the magic hidden behind it.”

Paola DI BELLO
“The visual expedient is a method to express the overcoming of preconceived visions and to establish a “surprise” visual that produces deeper insight into phenomena. I am interested in showing a second version of reality.

Marzia MIGLIORA
“Photography is an immense, inexhaustible source of ideas, notes, memories – a method to mark time and its passage. It is the sign of the present that leaves traces of itself. In my research, photography is always present as a timely look at the surroundings, thanks to the ability of synthesis in which even a single shot becomes a story.”

Marina Ballo CHARMET
“A sacred subject is the everyday one – the ‘always seen’, ‘the background noise in our minds’. My view is characterized by a perceptual mobility, out of focus and sideways – similar to a childlike vision, which reconstitutes a fluctuating vision, a ‘peripheral awareness’, not centrally related to our preconceptions. A vision opposite to anthropocentrism.”

Livio MANCINI
“I go back to places I know, but they are changing. I know these places, but they are new to me at the same time. So I realized that the horizon is a mental line that I was starting to visualize in terms of experience, in terms of knowledge, dreams and so on.”

Mauro BENEDETTI
“I love photographing Rome, it is the city I live in and where I experience the daily tension between the ancient backbone and the need to accommodate the contemporary flow.”

A March 2015 conference at the American Academy of Rome addresses the role of Photography in Italian Art History

By Amanda SZTEIN
A brief look at Alinari, the hub of photography, its preservation and evolution from the dawn of the art itself

Rochelle Cheever
“PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ART OF STORYTELLING WITHOUT WORDS; GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY NOT ONLY INCORPORATES ALL THE OBVIOUS TECHNICAL SKILLS, BUT ALSO, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT CONVEYS EMOTION.”