Photography: new and ancient, undisputed distinctive sign of being. Exploring how «Homo Selfie» takes images, here is an important feature of the reportage investigation…. Ostentation of the self: dear, old inclination of the narcissist that is inside us. Witnessing, documenting, exhibiting: “look at me!“. Portraiture was once very laborious, and only a certain artistic mastery could have satisfied the client.

Modern social media, essentially based on the hypochondriac use of ready-made images, taken in “automatic” mode, in addition to the content, have facilitated the exaggerated expansion of this human weakness with many self-portraits (selfies).

I photographed to do photographic justice to the blindness towards our surroundings. What we don’t look at, we don’t observe, therefore we don’t photograph: to photograph only ourselves. The photograph of the trip was the deposit to look at for the future: the memory. The selfie is a “look at me where I am!”: now and now. Afterwards it will no longer be necessary, the replacement of following moments will be irreversible.

That would have been just one of many ways of documentation. As a matter of fact, the primary subjects were the backdrops that told the stories of those people, of those places. Who incidentally were “disturbed” by compulsive self-portraitures. As proscenium to the flow of life, there for my momentary transit.