Photographs...have I made a lot?...perhaps a little...

Bessa Voigtlander, yet in 1950 an expensive german camera, not too big and not small, a medium format roll film, a wish of many amateurs and pro photographers, strong steel, leather covered, good lens, good shutter, manual focus, requesting a good knowledge of different situations related to light, film, subject, for there were lots of manuals....

now 2008? no more black dress...that's what the common color of cameras was (except the wooden ones)...silver color, small that you can hide into your breast pocket, the price? a bargain for what it makes!!! Small lens range from wide to tele angle...don't care about light or no light..just push the button and the camera electronic digital brain will think about the rest...you see it right away on the monitor before and final after shooting....just a matter of microparts of a second.....want to shoot movies?..ok, make it!!!....just fantastic and more....

now 2008...is film still on sale?..a market so rich and powerful that no one ten years ago could foresee this kind of reality...lots of world known factories ended production of film, chemicals, papers and closed...and minilab shops having no more films and prints to develop closed as well...and main professionals wholesaler stores shut down as well and... unemployment hit dozens of thousand and thousand workers everywhere...
And that's what...film photography methamorphosis into digital photography...just pixels....something that you don't touch, you nevermore will see through a neg or a slide....
Forget it my fellow and carry on seeing what's coming next...

ph ginobegotti - original clapper board from the
film set of "krull", a personal gift given to me from
director and producer Billy Malone, my former
relative and sure now still a good friend

Then? The world in color much nicer than now: Venice, New York, Sidney, Rio, Bombay, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Nairobi, Hong Kong, Tokyo...out that part that I never photographed...the largest part.

...and Latin American people in black and white, and the masses and the lines of a rose, a boat, the perspiration drops where I mirrored in slowly descending by the face of a young worker...photographs in black and white, visual emotions, sculptures of mine...

Now? Digital files, pixels...Sgarbi, Prodi, Piano, Fassino, Fini and Berlusconi, Bertinotti and Ferilli ...and ahead...more...and more...stoooop...take breath...abandon yourself to thoughts, to imagination...

Wishes?...back to visual sculptures in black and white...but is gone...no return...and more digit files and pixels...

My work? Photography? ...no...is my soul...my wife is right when I tell her "I love you!"...her answer?..."after photography!"...the truth is that I love too much that marvel of Creation represented by women generally, and...thanks God there is the camera that distract me too much from that for the time it takes me and all the rest of photography (to give it an important tone let's call it "photographic elaboration").

And still I am with my wife that even in difficult moments she always incited me to never leave her...Who?...She?...no...PHOTOGRAPHY...>

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