Traces
This series is called Traces. And I wanted to call that a reportage.
The photos were all made in sequence with my cell phone in about 15 minutes at home while Nicoletta, my mate, was out. The idea was a provocation for a photographic meeting that would be same night on the subject reportage. I wanted to shoot 10 images only, like using a polaroid camera film pack.
That very night the young lecturer and reporter appreciated the photos I submitted to the audience, but he said they were not a reportage since they showed no persons (actually the tenth photo -blurred- was of my mate coming in).
We discussed the subject a little, I think that a reportage is a description in images. I shot several reportages in my life with the classic idea of what a reportage should be for magazines. People and places together. Nonetheless I have now a wider idea of photography and I put in the word reportage something that is probably still not allowed for magazine photographers.
He was probably correct in some way.
But I realize now that if I wanted to do a reportage in Auschwitz it would be without people. It is certainly so. And you would still call it a reportage in my opinion (and it would be made of traces). A reportage on the primary forest can be done with people or without, making the place resound with the intimacy of non-presences.
But the decision that night was definitive, and we had some little laughther.
photos © Paolo Saccheri
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The photos were all made in sequence with my cell phone in about 15 minutes at home while Nicoletta, my mate, was out. The idea was a provocation for a photographic meeting that would be same night on the subject reportage. I wanted to shoot 10 images only, like using a polaroid camera film pack.
That very night the young lecturer and reporter appreciated the photos I submitted to the audience, but he said they were not a reportage since they showed no persons (actually the tenth photo -blurred- was of my mate coming in).
We discussed the subject a little, I think that a reportage is a description in images. I shot several reportages in my life with the classic idea of what a reportage should be for magazines. People and places together. Nonetheless I have now a wider idea of photography and I put in the word reportage something that is probably still not allowed for magazine photographers.
He was probably correct in some way.
But I realize now that if I wanted to do a reportage in Auschwitz it would be without people. It is certainly so. And you would still call it a reportage in my opinion (and it would be made of traces). A reportage on the primary forest can be done with people or without, making the place resound with the intimacy of non-presences.
But the decision that night was definitive, and we had some little laughther.
photos © Paolo Saccheri
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Comments
Btw - I see people present in each and every image here
~robert