Fathers and sons 2001/2006
As father as son, We're used to say.
The project was born due to a self-therapeutic need of a deeper understanding of the
relationship binding fathers and sons, with the goal of investigating the ancient and
unsolved love and hate conflict experienced within these two generations.
Using long exposure, compared to an instant shot, therefore having to shoot in
the dark, in order to achieve longer shooting times, allowed me to consider the deeper
meaning of being in front of a camera and brought both the photographer and the
people portrayed in a state of greater consciousness and intimacy.
I asked the couples of individuals, in the age of duty handover, to pose sitting one next
to the other, in a place which tells a story of their life together, and wait in the dark
so that they would lose any tension, any attitude or pose to then expose the photographic
slab for as long as a minute.
Leaving a son with his father, still, in a state of abandon
where I hide in the time passing by.
Silence, together, and see what's left.
Bepi Ghiotti
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