Giuseppe Cardoni

Metropolitan Fragments

The environment is delimited, circumscribed of the subway, with a complete absence of the external landscape that often represents a container of memories.The protagonists are absorbed in their thoughts with their heads bowed or intent on looking with the absent gaze of those who look but do not see, as if they were imprisoned in their inner world. We are almost facing an aquarium in which motionless and / or unconscious fish swim. Loneliness is almost palpable and silence seems to saturate every space of the environment in a metaphysical suspension. People anonymous, unknown, isolated, closed in themselves, unable to communicate, who despite being close to each other almost never interact with each other. The scene is still, extracted from the present and frozen out of time. (Metropolitan Fragments is an ongoing project)

Mehdi Rouhbakhsh

Birth in 1983, Franco, I grew up in an artistic family. My uncle was a known artist in the field of contemporary painting. I myself after finishing my academic study in the universities of Paris and obtained my master’s degree in International & E-Commerce, jointed to public society more involved to the ordinary life of people around the world.
Then I have started to capture the scenes and promote the feel of photography art by observing the path of the great photographers like as Cartier Bresson and Sebastiao Salgado and oriented my sense to taking the shot in the street by recording every moment of the ordinary life, basically on the technic of BnW. Knowing the fact that the initiate’s motivation of the photographer is capturing all that is commonly unnoticed, the age of Covid and pandemic for me was the exploring a unique word that it was reflected exactly what was differently attractive in front of my camera.