Children

• Photographer
  Simona Poncia
• Agency / Studio
  Simona Poncia Photographer
• Technical Info
  Nikon D7000, 1/2500 Sec; F/4,5; Nikkor 55-300
• Photo Date
  June 17, 2014

This scene, which seems to have come out of a Neorealist film, I immortalized a few years ago in one of the most beautiful and renowned locations in Europe: the small French town of Grasse. A glimpse of daily life, in which the three children protagonists were caught at the height of a quarrel between them. The beauty of children, whom I will never tire of admiring, and their gift of not feeling a grudge. After a while they returned to play together but, this second part of the story was not able to photograph it.

Simona Poncia approches photography after seeing an exhibition in Florence, entitled “Robert Mapplethorpe: perfection in form”. In the exhibition the american artist's photographs were placed side by side in comparison with Michelangelo's “David” and “The four prisons”. This event fed her passion for this art, motivating so her black and white style. Her photographs are timeless. She is able to highlight the essential and purity of everything, giving sacredness to the portrayed image by means of rarefied atmospheres. Immersed in the mysterious nature or overwhelmed by the chaos of the city, th