I am a photographer and a bilingual poet in Italian and in English. Photography

and poetry share the visual and verbal spaces between the visible and the non

visible, and between la parola scritta and la parola non scritta (the written word

and the unwritten wor(l)d, in Calvino’s beautiful phrase). I find the representation

of the world less important than the search, through the camera, for what is not

accessible to my eyes, and, through words, to the universe of the unsaid, which I

approximate by pushingthe limits of my visual and verbal language.

“I happen to believe in the beauty of simple things. I believe that the most uninteresting

thing can be very interesting.”

Saul Leiter