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 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
word, in Calvino’s beautiful phrase). I find the representation of the world less evocative
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