Giovanni Bigazzi - Fine art Photography - Photography
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THE NATURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography has always been my passion, a fundamental means for the journey of discovery that has accompanied me to this day...
An ideal way to spark curiosity and instantly translate the elements you see into a fragment, a “companion” that fuels the fascination of travel every time I find myself observing and interpreting through my sensitivity.
When time seems like a “tyrant” that can always escape us, sometimes it is the miracle of the moment that can save us; that instant that sometimes flows into an “emotional extension” of what I have just seen and touched the strings of my soul.

For me, photography is a meeting point between the heart, the soul, with a pinch of intellect...
It always represents a little bit of us, with a burst of curiosity and a spark of desire.
Every image is a “gateway” and anything that impresses me,
in the moment before the click, passes through the “sound of my eye”...

I am inspired by everything that Nature manifests to us in its universe.
Nature is inalienable, it is constantly changing, transforming, merging and harmonizing matter in all its four elements. It lives and continues to do so, and has been doing so for millennia. 
Despite what man takes away from it, or “pollutes,” it continues its course, “dressing forms” in every season, creating wonderful things that can be recognized and grasped by our sensitivity in observation, and captured with the use of a reflex camera.

My true intention is to follow my intuition, observe, and photograph whatever life itself suggests to me.
Every time I take a photograph, in addition to what I see, the surrounding sounds are also important to me (the sound of flowing water, the rustling of the wind, distant or nearby sounds...) whether I am in front of a waterfall, a sunlit wheat field, or a square with cobblestones wet from the rain...

Light and shadow are the “environmental interlocutors” in the dialogue with my eye and my soul.
Every photo I present at that point is addressed to the observer through the filter of their sensitivity, depending on the subject or the context of the moment that might fascinate them.

“Whatever excites me, for whatever reason, I photograph; I don't look for unusual subjects, but I make even commonplaces unusual” (Edward Weston).

Giovanni Bigazzi
February 2021