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For many years I have accompanied my professional activity of wedding photographer with a personal research on environmental photography.
I believe that even if the two worlds are apparently distant, they are in fact connected. I will explain better: the places tell the story of the people just as much and even better than people do, as the suggestion of their absence brings back to the psychological mechanism of their presence and life in those same places. The place becomes a scene on which to project an enormous existential imagery that photography returns to us amplified. I believe photography is the only medium that can investigate this mystery without ever revealing it. Photography unveils and refers like a mirror continuously to something else that is always vanishing: In this resides all its beauty and fascination. For these reasons when we see a beautiful photo we cannot avoid thinking and especially “imaging”. In light of these considerations, I decided to present in this page my works of research connected to the theme of places. Works that resulted in four editorial publications. I would like to add that the other important element implied in my photographic research is the Light that not only creates the vision of the place but also its “reality” .. it is always worth remembering that the word photography means “light writing” .
Place, absence, presence, light: all my photographic imagery is included here.
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LA LUCE CHIUSA © Carlo Carletti – All Rights Reserved
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“This collection of photographs of Siena, dedicated to her entrances, those wide portals where horse and carriage once stopped, inevitably recall the colors of Siena: black and white. They are the basic colors of human nature: hope and suffering, apertures of light leading to darkness and infinity. The light comes from above – skylights filter it down from the uppermost floors to the bottom of stairwells – the darkness has the color of the night, leaving in shadow sections of passageways, transitions from one floor to another.
Even feelings have their own secret recesses, their niches, their times, their outbursts and their pauses. …” Mario Verdone
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TERRA AGRA © Carlo Carletti – All Rights Reserved
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Deserted places
“There was once a time when the mere mention of the word “Maremma” conjured up the raw image of a harsh and inhospitable landscape: it was the Maremma of Salvatore Rosa who, at Monterufoli in the summer of 1650, painted his solitary “Democritus Meditating”. A real and inaccessible land which called for devotion and silent perseverance, capable of producing a coarse range of feelings distilled into irrevocable passions: “… the difficult trials and the sweat / the hunts and the perilous windings …” Fierceness, simplicity. …” Alberto Olivetti
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MAREMMA © Carlo Carletti – All Rights Reserved
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BORDERLAND
“When Guido Piovene came to Italy at the end of the 1950s, he was really astonished to see how much had already disappeared in the Maremma: the malarial rivers of the marshes populated by many untypical birds, the spectral appearing of cowboys, the wild herds held off by soft long-haired sheepdogs, which “often live, by contrast, where man is poor”.
Therefore, some of the most celebrated stereotypes of the Maremma were, already in those years, nothing more than amemory. …” Carlo Nepi
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VICINI PAESAGGI © Carlo Carletti | Carlo Vigni – All Rights Reserved
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Vicini Paesaggi is a collection of photos of an area in the southern part of the province of Siena, the Crete Senesi, moon-like landscapes of bare clay hills and small woods and shrubs, divided by deep cracks where flowering bushes spring up. The Crete Senesi change their aspect according to the wheat seasons: they are green in December, yellow in summer and in autumn the ploughing makes them grey. The intense unreal atmosphere of this moon landscape recalls an inner state, like a mirror it suggests the metaphysical and elusive element of what it physically reflects.
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