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Emanuele Nappini –Overnight Perspectives

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This project stems from the need to regain a certain connection, both physical and mental, with a space from which I have cut myself off for many years, being physically distant as well as too engrossed in day-to-day activities. The quest for these images is therefore the need to fill a gap between myself and the space, like between myself and the people who lives it every day.

The urban elements and the places of transit, which by its nature is the hub between the various activities carried out by the community, are the protagonists in this project. Night-time, when everyone rests and all activities are reduced to a minimum, is the time that I have chosen.

Every image is the tale of a game of complicity to which I have abandoned myself and in which I have let myself become embroiled. However, for me, photographing has also been about sharing something more, something that goes beyond each individual image or set of images: subverting the rules of the space, breaking down its boundaries, now sitting, now clinging to such a different reality, so pure and disenchanted at the same time, and the manifestation of my presence in it has helped me to share and to stave off the disorientation in which I found myself at a certain point. Accepting that one has lived for years solely “by day”, at the height of activity, in glaring light that made all doubts impossible about the state of things and people, their position in the space and their hierarchy, is a disenchantment that is hard to face.

These Overnight Perspectives have yielded light to my darkness, the dream has made my reality clearer and the morning arrives more peacefully. Lastly, I think that I’ve worked out that it doesn’t matter at what time of the day or night you want to do it.

Emanuele Nappini is 32. He currently lives in Pontassieve (Florence) in Italy.

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