“The burden of time” “What is to give light must endure burning” Victor E. Frankl Through these photographs I have tried to find, in others, traces of my own childhood: touched by absence, loneliness and indifference. I have looked for children and adolescents whose stories and relations are somehow close to me. When I started to portray them, I could see nothing, neither could they; we met in complete darkness. These images have been worked with long exposures, between 30 seconds and 3 minutes; they are like small fragments of a video condensed in only one image. During the session, the burden of time emerges in the perceptible discomfort of their breathing, it becomes visible in their flickering eyes, and thus their true expressions are revealed far beyond what we can see. Lying, half-naked, they somehow experience fear and helplessness. And yet, or perhaps because of this, they surrender with confidence to their portrait.
