I revisited the project A Life, which I created between 2019 and 2021. I chose only a few images and
I wrote new poems, born of the emotions and experiences I have had over the last seven years.
It is called The Elaboration of Memory.
I am a photographer and a billingual poet in Italian and in English. Photography and poetry share
the visual and verbal spaces between the visible and the non visibile, and between la parola scritta
and la parola non scritta (the written word and the unwritten word), in Calvino’s beautiful phrase). I
find the representation of the world less evocativethan the search, through the camera, for what is
not accessible to my eyes, and, throughwords, to the universe of the unsaid, which I approximate by
pushing the 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