The Palermo Close Up video lasts about a minute and shows a sequence of a dozen photographs. All of them were taken in Palermo.
Palermo can be described by landscapes. They are usually breathtaking. As a photographer, however, I love the particular, the close-up to the macro. Everything big is in the small. A city like Palermo, so complex, is a kind of fractal. A thousand details make up an exciting mosaic, much more evocative than any landscape or drone view. At least this is my feeling. I am exploring the fractal reality of a city layered over millennia.
These visions are spontaneous in me. With each glance, I identify fractal particles to capture in a photograph. They rarely move. That is why it could be considered a still life. But it is only an impression. Every detail changes with time, but it is not the time of a glance, it is the time of things, of the earth, which is much longer than a glance or a human life. To see this, you need a series of photographs, a dozen details that tell a story, your story, as layered together with the city. Each time a discovery of the intimate.
