You
You
When you do a sum of all that you know
Eliminate the banality we hope
Eliminate the banality of which you are aware because we are often not aware of being banal
For which at that moment in which there is the click
Converge many many
Many riches that we have inside but also many miserable things
You
I think
To not make any distinction between my private life and my photographs
They are part of me
So if a book influenced me, it opened me horizons
and
He gave it to me himself and I realized that this will become a part of me
And in the photographs
And on the photographs will have great influence
Our works are made of everything we have lived
They start
From this experience, from those bad ones, from those beautiful ones
For which I had yes, yes of influence
It has influenced me a lot
To be able to volunteer for the psychiatric
At Palermo, the psychiatric hospital in Palermo
That was called the Real Casa dei Matti
And
And where I have been for a few years with Franco Zechino, my photographer colleague
With my daughter Shoba, with a group of actors that I have involved
I have done theater, cinema and photography
I am a modern person who loves to be alive in the times
In the times that live
And the color has existed for 40 years
But I prefer it, I prefer the black and white
For what reason
It is much more secret, much more elegant, not only from the compositional point of view
But also, according to me
I express myself better than the black and white
Even without knowing why
I consider my photos a bit like if they were parted
A son, you prefer a son to the other
I can understand the meaning, the value is more important
And less important, but I don't have photography that I prefer
I can say that I prefer to remember the emotions that the photographer gave me
A simple and clean child
With a little story behind
It is a great future ahead, I hope
The children, I like having photographed the children
Then I know that some photos are good even if they are not children
Or the opposite
When I called the newspaper
Every time I played the telephone, I was terrified
I called the newspaper, run and something happened somewhere
I was with Franco, he was my friend
I was with the newspaper, he said
During the tragedy, I had met a lot of people
Because I knew that I would have found someone without life
And he said, terrible, other than when an old person dies
Or even the disease, when someone is dead there
And two minutes before, he didn't know he would be dead
Then it was really embarrassing
And humiliating to include these things in our land
Because we, as photographers, didn't go to Asia
Or to the language, to photograph the war
It was my house
They were brothers who killed another brother
I had photographed the crown of Palermo
The ugly one, the beautiful one
And when I do the samples, I always ask the ugly photographers
Those of the homicids, of the mafios, of the arresters
And I try to mix in between these photos
The photos of my children, of the women
Some moments that are less sad
At a certain point
I always have these images in front of my eyes
Of the dead killed, or of the mafios, or of pain
At a certain point, I dreamed, I dreamed
That I would have burned my negatives
It was a recurring dream, like another dream
That I try, I try and I can't get out
Of a place, of a city
Even for me, I made a small film
On the pictures, I burned them
Because I was obsessed with the memories
You can't go through a story
Of civil war, like that of those years
Where they killed the best of the city
Of our land, of Sicily
And forget about it like that
I wanted to forget about it
Because I was too obsessed with it
So I started to say
Instead of burning the negatives
I destroy them, I destroy them in another way
That is, I put the point
The point where the dead was killed
I put myself in front of a naked woman body
So everyone looks at the naked woman body
And behind there was an invention
To move the reality inside me
I didn't move the reality
The reality was the one we had lived
But I had to rework my work
That's why I made a little 20, 30 of these images
And I have to tell you that
I don't like them
But they did very well to me
To have desperately, desperately
To have faith in a future
That could be the body of a woman
That carries a motherhood of a different boy
Of a different girl
That will make a different world
A little bit of dreams
They remain even 81 years old
It was nice to see that before all these people who came in
It's wonderful, Palermo
Palermo has been becoming again that era
That era was during the spring
Really, we are making mistakes, I think
And you can see that
With the woman who brings the new
She brings me a new son
A new way of educating a son
To educate a son in peace
With respect for the living
With respect for the land
For the culture
And for the other
Respect for the other
Anyway, this is
Of any color and this is
We didn't talk about it
I have a very strong anguish
What is happening in this world
This image
The image of you running away
Because behind you are shooting
You are looking for salvation
And you are looking for it wherever you go
And then you find yourself in the walls
Think about what will happen
Because this is the photo of that child
For me, unforgettable
I will search for it to bury it
But also stealing it from the internet
To put it in my house
I want to remember that child
I want to honor him, understand?
Here, photography can also be
Honor
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