I had the privilege to photograph the cover of the published book “Due Secondi” by Osvaldo Di Domenico.
Osvaldo and I worked closely and brainstormed ideas to capture the meaning of his book, his vision for the front cover and we made it come to live. During a stormy summer afternoon, we set up the perfect scene consisting of the orange sky hues, the harsh waves, and the chair reflected in his book.
” Two seconds, yes… just two, damned seconds! Not just any two, but precisely those “his” two seconds, that brief period of time that forever marked his future. For me, paradoxically, colliding with his harsh reality was a stroke of luck, because, thanks to what I call and will always call my “spark,” and to the story he told me, today I am able to appreciate more fully even the smallest facet of my time, its thousand shades, its many colors and its countless smells. FORM - SUBSTANCE - TIME, one thing, as inseparable elements, literally indivisible, as parts of a single, marvelous mechanism, that of life. After all, what is form without substance? A mere shell, a useless, deceptive and sometimes harmful aestheticism. A semblance of reality devoid of any content. And substance without form? An indistinct set of full-bodied but disjointed elements, which instead of constituting an added value in our life represent and sometimes exalt its confusion, like horses run amok in their frenetic race in an endless imaginary meadow.