The Human Fire

• Photographer
  Antonio Denti
• Technical Info
  Iphone 13 Pro / Canon R6
• Photo Date
  February 2023

A news cameraman comes back covering the catastrophic Turkey-Syria earthquake. His 9-year old son hugs him with unusual intensity, sensing he is back from an abyss. He understands he will have to talk to him about the earthquake. He decides to do it with pictures. The kid is struck by those shot at night: humans huddling around fires next to the ruins of their homes. ''Dad, they look like the primitive humans who invented fire'. It was it. Suddenly left naked of all human technology invented to shield us from the world, they turned to fire to protect them from the cold and from despair.