Many years have passed since the first steps towards the Middle Eastern world occupied by the Soviets, which has shown me along paths and mountains, rivers and deserts of Afghanistan.
Clandestine and accompanied by a crew, a term abused to define my traveling companions, they are stained soldiers, they wanted to call themselves freedom fighters. They would become over time, my fighters in the East, not just in Afghanistan. From that first experience, so many have followed in that air of the Middle East, crossing the conflict between the long Lebanese civil war, the Palestinian atrocity, and the Gulf War.
From these experiences, the "Middle East Polygon" is the appropriate definition, for that geographic air, which becomes, and today is seen the most tragic consequences, the target in the war game. The great Western powers, especially the United States and its allies, Arab double-player regimes, are the proponents of a destabilization in that part of the world, which consequently also affects us. If, on the one hand, the wealthy countries of the Persian Gulf that with their oil have made their fortunes, they are also the main sponsors of all terrorist Islamic organizations. Al Qaeda first, ISIS then.
Will this tragedy ever end? (Francesco Cito)
An illustrated fable helps us understand that there are no walls or borders in the world ... and that every gesture of welcome can be a seed that will sooner or later give its own fruits ...
Legend has it that Goddess Alaph, for the mysterious and inexplicable death of her son, once transformed the life of man into motionless spines. She denied her individualism and the life of the sea the power of collective life. Baja California is the place where the almost immobile life on earth is contrasted with that hectic sea bed.
Games of glances, stick strokes, splashes and clouds of colour: this way Krishna had met his beloved Radha; This way even today, during the Hindu feast of Lath mar Holi, the lovers look, chase, and cover in colour.
"I wanted to flee from existence, from men, to collect dancing stars and squeeze sweetness, so I flew through the waves to give the foam my heart turned polverized." (D.D.)
Over the past year or so, I have travelled a lot of the world. This show presents some of my favorite photographs capturing the compelling places, people, and wildlife I have encountered. It is a journey through the mind, the eye, and the heart of a photographer.