Africa through iPhone 2010-2011
Malawi, Zambia, Mozambico, Tanzania e Kenya (2010-2011)
Malawi, Zambia, Mozambico, Tanzania e Kenya (2010-2011)
INTRODUCTION
The dawning of photography had a ritual of exposures and clicks, laboratory exercises and alchemies that gave the reproduced image a distinctive feature. Nowadays, with digital cameras, we have tools and devices at our disposal that in many ways made disappear that sensation of uniqueness.
I believe that the “iPhoneography”, which is the art of taking pictures with an iPhone, together with new technologies, has probably made this uniqueness possible.
It might just well be a modest illusion and maybe we should investigate further but it’s certain that a new photographic language has born and has rendered contemporary photography so communicative.
Africa through iPhone is a wide photographic project tending to combine the reality and the stories of a continent with this new photographic language in order to create tangible and communicative images.
www.stefanopesarelli.com
The dawning of photography had a ritual of exposures and clicks, laboratory exercises and alchemies that gave the reproduced image a distinctive feature. Nowadays, with digital cameras, we have tools and devices at our disposal that in many ways made disappear that sensation of uniqueness.
I believe that the “iPhoneography”, which is the art of taking pictures with an iPhone, together with new technologies, has probably made this uniqueness possible.
It might just well be a modest illusion and maybe we should investigate further but it’s certain that a new photographic language has born and has rendered contemporary photography so communicative.
Africa through iPhone is a wide photographic project tending to combine the reality and the stories of a continent with this new photographic language in order to create tangible and communicative images.
www.stefanopesarelli.com
Malawi. How to make Africa smile? "Although governed by the elderly, Africa is a young continent. Half of its population is under 16 and more than 70% were born after independence. The free-born tend to blame the actual Government and not the ancient colonialist for the present conditions. As young people grow up and begin to vote, their choice will fall on pragmatic leaders whom Africa needs. That is the hope". The Economist
Malawi. Resources. Everyday life on the benches of the Malawi Lake depends on local renewable resources. A natural treasure at risk that for many reasons must be defended.
Malawi. In the Chewa tradition, during the funeral ceremony, the body is placed near the fire to keep away the spirits.
Tanzania. A gift for the Emperor. In 1415, at the gates of the forbidden City, the Chinese emperor waited for the arrival of his vessels from Africa that transported, as gift for him, a giraffe. Europeans "rediscovered" Africa nearly a century afterwards.
Zambia. Green Gold is the term that Malawians use for the nation of tabacco, Malawi is one of the main tobacco's producer in the world, but in the country there are no Sigarette factory.
Malawi. Annette is “praying” that the grindstone will produce flour. She’s got up early this morning, and like many other children she crossed the fields with her mum to get to the grindstone and come back with some flour.
“Sometimes it seems like I am able to reach beyond the frame and project the power of the look to express such strong emotions”
“Sometimes it seems like I am able to reach beyond the frame and project the power of the look to express such strong emotions”
Tanzania.The silence of the stares. Beyond the veil the silence of the stares represents the segregation of sexes in a society where old forms of supremacy still lead to the exclusion of the woman.
Tanzania. Loxodonta africana. Each elephant killed by poacher is worth about €30,000 for its ivory. Each year 40,000 elephants are killed and tons of ivory are headed towards the Chinese and the Japanese markets. In 10, maybe 15 years the African elephant will disappear.
Tanzania. Illusion. The illusion that modernity may erase the beauty of a timeless means of transport.
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam: Hijab. "hat they may be distinguished and not be harassed" Quran: verse 59, ch. 33.
Tanzania. De-tribalization. Silhouettes ingrained in a scene in which they don’t actually belong are forced to renounce their traditional life towards a new urban condition.
