Meraviglie Presenta

• Prize
  Bronze in Portfolio/Other
• Photographer
  Chiara Innocenti
• Technical Info
  Project Made With Fujix100v E X-t3 With Short Telephoto Lens
• Photo Date
  2022-2023

I didn't want to document or describe places or people, but rather to arouse a state of mind and invite the spectator to reflect on the fact that the circus has always generated dreams and wonder, adapting through the ages to the changes in taste and morals of society, reinventing itself each time in a balance between tradition and innovation. Today, the circus must respond to a society that is no longer anthropocentric but eco-centric. To develop the project, I followed two circuses with animals in Italy, two with holograms in Italy and Germany, and did archive research at CEDAC in Verona.

When I photograph I am elsewhere. I like to think that those who look at my photos can enter 'that elsewhere' with me, finding food for thought. I like to tell what appearance hides, but also what time tries to hide from us, what obeys sensitivity, kindness, I like to think that I show aspects that people cannot perceive and that I believe are important instead.I would like my images to awaken that delicacy of thought and kindness in the gaze. I have the illusion to think that this sensitivity would make us better.