Sight's Blue Sense


  • Photographer
    Alessandra Bello
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2014
  • Technical Info
    Photography

Today there are no borders between countries, towns and culture: everything is pervading everything else and is constantly evolving. How we perceive our cities can help us understand the way we live. Architecture materializes the society that has created it, and through its continuous presence, it helps us to understand who we are. These pictures are patchwork of reality, hybrid between virtual and authentic, where it’s difficult to understand what is real and what is reflected, because everything is brought to the same level of attention. Our awareness is suspended by the hypnotic character of the pictures, while we stay still searching for what is our reality.

Story

Today there are no borders between countries, towns and cultures and everything is pervading everything else and is constantly evolving.
Understanding how the contemporary town can be perceived can help us understand the way we live, being it the place where above all the historical strata are evident in their physicality.
Architecture reflects and materializes the society that has created it: images of life, successes, defeats, dreams of an epoch are made concrete in its stones. Through its continuous presence, it helps us to understand who we are, because it places us in space and time.
In the society I live in, everything is splitting up in an accelerated pace, everything is prone to fragmentation and to speed in a kind of post-futurism where eventually everything becomes liquid.
These photos are thought as a patchwork reflecting this mix, an hybrid between virtual and authentic, where it’s difficult to understand what is real and what is not, because everything is brought to the same level of attention.
Our awareness is therefore suspended and the tension between these mixed realities loads the picture of an hypnotic character, while we stay still searching for what is our reality.
The idea that gives life to this project is deeply rooted in my experience of the cities where I lived and in my will to investigate the power of communication of photography.
The reason for this title comes from the many meanings of blue intended not only as a colour but also as an idea, a state of meditation.

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