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I have read many passages in which great photographers and ordinary amateur photographers have throughout time and history tried to tell about their relationship with photography. Instead, it would all seem very obvious when we take a photograph: but are we sure that everything is as simple as clicking?

There is no doubt that photography constitutes one of the most important and abused languages of communication these days. A form of expression for everyone, made by everyone, aimed at everyone. Certainly even without having the manual skills of the painter, the sculptor or the musician just to give a few examples, through photography we can express something.

But as the grade Mario Giacomelli would say, "Photography is a simple thing. Provided you have something to say."

What every photographer should look for, however, once they begin a serious photographic practice, is their own personal motivation. Because one soon realizes that there are infinite ways of shooting a scene, but only one is what we have in mind or what our subconscious urges us to seek. And it is true that when we get it, we immediately understand it. And in understanding it there is often a strange feeling, looking at that shot it is as if we are looking as spectators inside ourselves and we are able to see something that is not beautiful or ugly per se, but is a part of our person "revealed" to ourselves. To photograph cannot be a job or an exercise for its own sake; to photograph is to go in search of ourselves. Photography at this point arises on its own, it is a need. Deep expression of that unrepeatable instant that led me to make it. Photography is an expression of my interiority, a deep and undisguised investigation of my self, my status. And when I see them again at a distance of time I relive the same emotions, the same joys and anxieties that led me to make them. Through them I can look into the face of my history, my past: skimming only the present, eagerly waiting to catch the next emotion