He looks like a sailor or Santa Claus, and yet very quickly this touch of Italian elegance, inimitable lifts the ambiguity: Enrico Bossan, is a photographer. Not only that, he is he the director of Fabrica, this residence founded and financed by the Benetton family. He is also the editorial director of Colors, the magazine of the group, directed by Olivero Toscani for many years prior.
Of Colors, he doesn’t speak, he gives directly a copy of Fabrica, and declares: “not a university, not a company, but a laboratory whose aim is to apprehend the future by giving an innovative way and visibility to visionary projects, whether they be scientific or cultural (…). If the project requires it, I would put my work after the work of a writer, for example. Very few people are capable of doing that.”
Of his images he says: “the most beautiful thing I’ve done? It’s what I didn’t shoot, when my father died in my arms. It is a photo that is engraved in me.”
Bulimic, he just started his blog, e-photoreview.com, where he brings together photographers, artists, photojournalists from around the world, made for the most part via Skype, where he chooses in regards to their capacity to transmit their ideas, their passion and their emotions.
Finally, the key: “As a child, my grandfather taught me how to get to know people, simply by looking into their eyes.” Evidently, when one has eyes as blue as Enrico’s, it helps.
Liza Fetissova
Galerie Russiantearoom, Paris
