Conceptual nominee

This photographic project investigates the analogies and metaphorical meanings that this complex system of ramifications has with human life. A root digs, penetrates, envelops, spreads, ensures support and nourishment for the plant, life for the new shoots. Radix in Latin and radicals in the figurative sense mean origin, beginning, principle, cause. The phrase "to take root" means to settle down solidly, to set up home. The roots make up the story of each of us; in a broader sense we cite the cultural roots of a people or a state. The root of a word indicates its fundamental meaning". A plant without roots dies. But not all roots will bear trees with good fruit. A man without roots is a man without an identity. regimes.

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep your roots intact."
(Victor Hugo)

I like to think that each of us, observing these photographs, recognizes or imagines his journey, erratic, tiring, a slow constant and wonderful search for himself and for life.

Swiss born, Cilentan (Italy) by origin and Versilian (Italy) by adoption, Florian D'Angelo has been dedicated to social and art photography for several years. Graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, discussing the thesis "it's just a photograph". He collaborated as a photographer with the research group of the University of Florence and the Historical Institute of the Sienese Resistance for the publication of "Poetics and politics of memory, public memory of the Nazi-fascist massacres in Tuscany", edited by Pietro Clemente and Fabio Dei (Carocci-Tuscany Region, 2005). He worked as a collotype printer at the historic Fratelli Alinari Photographic Company and as an assistant to the photographer artist Massimo Vitali. In 2008 he collaborated as a graphic designer and photographer in the publication of the monograph by the sculptor Alberto Sparapani. He participates in various solo and group exhibitions in Italy and Switzerland.