Tommaso Banti
Born and raised near Tuscany’s sea, I have always been attracted to storytelling and fine arts. My interest in cinema and photography developed thanks to the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Michelangelo Antonioni, Benoit Paille, Bruce Gilden and Edward Steichen, who deeply inspire me as many other authors and media do. Eager to learn how to be a director and to find my narrative style, I started my studies at Scuola Holden, a storytelling academy in Turin, where I completed my studies in Cinema. Thanks to this experience I had the opportunity to improve technically and to work on various personal projects in different medias. I finished my studies in 2020. It was at this moment in life when I found interest in off camera flash street photography. Now I am studying Modern Italian Literature in Università di Pisa, but I am still working on new projects in different medias, trying to improve more and more, both on a technical level and on a poetic one.
Water and wind are recurrent elements that appear in the works I’ve done, as they are and always will be a part of me.
About the collection…
During this last apocalyptic year I’ve been wandering around, armed with a reflex and a cheap flash. I stopped strangers and talked with them for a while. We were in a stage of knowing each other, yet there was a kind of tension. We were feeling creeped out one of the other. What was the other thinking? How were they going to react?
In their uneasiness I recognize myself, yet I don’t know why.
It seems important to me to describe this ordinary feeling of uncanny, is it a feeling born during the pandemic or have neighbours always felt this way one about the other?
