Maredentro

• Photographer
  Alma Bibolotti
• Technical Info
  Olympus Tg-6, Lightroom. Photoshop Cs6
• Photo Date
  2020

I am so attracted to the sea that the visual and physical contact with the water, its musical dimension, nourishes in me a strong emotional relationship that allows a kind of epiphany: its flow and rhythm lead me to a psychic reflection that I try to show in these photographs. Therefore, 'Maredentro' means to me both ‘the sea inside’ and ‘inside the sea’. When I took these photos, I experienced a spiritual freedom, a suspension of space and time where photographing became a a purely intuitive act. The surface of the sea, its ‘skin’ embraced my gaze so that I plunged into its visual complexity.

My relationship with photography started when I discovered Edward Weston, Mimmo Jodice, Mario Giacomelli, Lucien Clergue, and many other masters whose works strongly influenced my vision. Photography is an inner journey, vital to me. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature, on my relationship with landscape and the natural world. I aim to render what I feel while shooting, rather than what I witness. I also think that sometimes common objects and simple landscapes evoke parallel worlds where dreaminess and double meaning prevail so that outer space gives voice to my inner gaze.