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We are living in very dark times, full of anguish and fear, coming to us through the TV screens with real-time updates on the pandemic and through the windows with the harrowing sound of sirens that repeat and chase each other all day.
During the last period my region was in the red zone, I asked some acquaintances who live near my house to look out their windows as I passed their houses during my authorized half hour of physical activity, because I wanted to photograph them. A series of portraits of a humanity that looks out, frightened, tense ....... but that seems to be scanning the sky in search of hopeful lights has emerged.
I took one shot a day ... ... all at the same time ... ... after sunset ......... .. when the external light is already weaker than that inside the houses ....... also to avoid reflection problems.

I was born in Gela in Sicily, 01.04.1962. From 1984 I live in Montichiari (BS). I have been taking photographs for over 30 years. I still remember when I took my first photo with a reflex, a Cosina CT1, loaned to me by a work colleague, in Rome, from the window of our office. A very trivial photo ... but very important to me…. The zero point of a great passion that has never abandoned me since. I still have that photo. But ... it was only a few years since I started studying and developing "my photos, the encounter with digital photography was for me the year zero. Being able to have total control over my shots in post production has opened the door to a new and wonderful world ... .. It was what I was waiting for. For me photography is an exteriorization of inner images. I do not have the pretension, nor the intention, nor the desire to document reality. Reality love to interpret it ... or better ... I like to give "my version of events" ... trying to express it artistically ... and hoping to succeed.