n.09 - Sequences - of the creative potential of the city

Taken for granted and undervalued, those that often feed us do it at great personal expense.

With this series I expand the images with motion, a feeling of passing time and a sense of our own impermanence. Its aim is to resonate and awaken our observation of reality, especially in the daily contests where we tend to lose focus due to habit.

The project consists of an ongoing series of digitally edited photographic images with some incursions in video.

A bit of backstory:
After the pandemic I needed a new project that would bring me OUT, amongst people.

I’ve always been interested in street photography and to photograph people, but my own camera shyness didn’t allow me to take stolen pictures, I felt terribly awkward doing it. The Sequences project gave me this opportunity, keeping a certain distance and creating images where the single individual is not recognizable, it allowed me to introduce people in my work.

Some time ago I discovered the term ‘flaneur’, while reading a book by Emile Zola, it immediately resonated with me, aimlessly strolling the city…
When I gave the title to the first image of this serie, Flâneuse, I researched the term online and discovered a book by Lauren Elkin that used the same word as title, I immediately bought it.
It pointed out, among a lot of other things, how women were not even allowed to go walking alone around the city up until very recently. Even here in Europe. There are many places where they still cannot.

‘Sequences’ is dedicated to them, the women that cannot walk alone for safety, cultural or religious reasons.

With 25% of the proceeds from primary sales I will support the #WomanLifeFreedom movement via donations to the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, a non-profit and non-governmental organization for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran. (https://www.iranrights.org/donate)