This is something different from what I usually did in photography and from what I showed around in the past years. I’ve been working basically in documentary photography trying to develop a personal approach and language, following a research about my generation.
In this case I focused on a different kind of research. Starting from a very diary an personal archive (pictures collected in the last year) I meant to investigate about the meaning of imagery for me. About what is my imagery and if it is the reason or consequence of my shooting.
The unconscious belonging the images (the fact that we already own them, without knowing) is the source of everything, not the consequence. This series is based more on the causes than on the consequences. On the value of what we already are, the value of how we can step out, changing in that moment the world we perceive.
I take photos of things I see, to tell stories that I’ve never seen.
Roberto Boccaccino is a freelance photographer.
After a two-years-collaboration with Grazia Neri Photoagency in Milan, today he works as independent. His pictures have been published by italian and international magazines (among others: New York Times Lens, Foto8, GEO, Mare, GQ, Private Magazine, D – La Repubbilca, Zoom, Afisha Mir, Euroman).
In the autumn 2009 attends the diploma course of Advanced Visual Storytelling at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus.
The diploma project is “Ritdiena”, where he tells the stories, the feelings and the future outlooks of the young generation living in Latvia, the country with the gloomiest economic crisis in Europe.
“Ritdiena” receives the special mention “Internazionale” in the ATF Fnac Award 2010. For Internazionale realizes “On the side”, a research about the Lebanese youth, which become part of his broader project about a generation.
His project “Toy Town” about the relationship between the Lego Company and the town of Billund, has been selected for the Lumix Young Photojournalism Festival 2010 and exhibited at the Brandts Museum of Odense, Denmark.
In October 2010 takes part in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXIII in New York.
One of the pictures from his on-going project about the youth culture has been awarded at the Årets Pressfoto 2010 (Danish Press Photo), where he got the 1st prize for the best portrait of the year.
He is 27 and keeps to photograph his generation.
