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Who wouldn’t want to be in Sicily, right now, enjoying a granita under the sun? Breathing the smell of the deep blue sea? Waiting for a warm, red sunset to fall upon them? Wearing a light dress, with the wind caressing their hair?
I definitely would LOVE it! But at least I have the chance to virtually fly there working on the beautiful photographs of GAP, aka Antonino Gitto, a very talented photographer based in Messina, Sicily.
It’s always a pleasure being called to give shape to valuable projects.
At the beginning of March, before all the Covid-19 madness and lockdown started, I met the managers of the Mi-WOW project.
Last Thursday 14th of May I had the last two sessions of my Isolation Portraits Project.
The total lockdown in Ireland is over since Monday 18th, so it made sense to finish my project just before it.
The lockdown in Ireland is coming close to an end, so this is the penultimate blog post with my beloved Isolation Portraits.
It’s been quite a trip down to memory lane, meeting all these friends during the last two months. I’ve been sharing with you pieces of my life and heart, just because.
We live into the illusion that because we see each other’s photos on social media, we are still connected. Even those who don’t use much social media, they know they can text you and exchange a couple of sentences once in a while and that friendship can go on like this. How sad is that?
The more I go on with this project, the more I enjoy it. Every time I speak with someone, I learn something about them or their current life and I feel really privileged to share these little pinches of personal space with those people.
This blog post goes to three countries, two continents and speaks only two languages, the ones closest to my heart: Italian and Spanish.
Each one of the friends I’m introducing to you, reminds me of how many different people I have been. How many personas I wore. But I can also see my own pattern.
Writing about the first meeting with every person sends me directly to another era and this is very moving. This project has become my personal madeleine.
One day I was on a video call with a friend. We were talking about work. Suddenly one of her daughters took the phone, placed it on the table and started painting in front of it. I thought it was a gorgeous scene and I took the camera I had beside me to freeze the moment. It’s there when I realised I could start my own version of the project.