TITLE: New Light - NewYork

Walking alone for a long time with a goal and without a destination, losing and finding myself has led me to discover a new NY, where clarity wins over chaos and silence covers the noise.
A suspended atmosphere in a dilated time takes me; the picture is not only a moment of the present but also of the past and the future. I am aware of denying the click of the fugitive moment. The becoming is an appearance because the essence of these images go out from the temporal cataloging and can come from the past, be in the present, project into the future.
At a later reading, I realize that the escape point has metaphorically become an existential path.
The human figure therefore is present, but it is lost in a vacuum made of light; man's gesture, imperceptible to a global vision, through the image becomes permanent, with a white that holes the matter.

Camminare a lungo sola con un obbiettivo e senza una meta, perdermi e ritrovarmi mi ha portato a scoprire una NY nuova, dove la chiarezza vince sul caos e il silenzio copre il rumore.
Mi ha preso un’atmosfera sospesa in un tempo dilatato in cui la foto non è solo un momento del presente, ma anche del passato e del futuro. Assumo la consapevolezza di voler negare lo scatto dell’attimo fuggente. Il divenire mi si mostra come un’apparenza perché l’essenza di queste immagini sfugge ad una catalogazione temporale e può venire dal passato, essere nel presente, proiettarsi nel futuro.
Ad una lettura successiva allo scatto mi rendo conto che il punto di fuga è divenuto metaforicamente un percorso esistenziale.
La figura umana dunque è presente, ma si perde in un vuoto fatto di luce; il gesto dell’uomo, impercettibile in una visione globale, attraverso l’immagine diventa permanente, in un bianco che buca la materia.

AUTHOR: Francesca Semerano (Italy)

Personal informations:
Francesca Romana Semerano
residing in Via Catanzaro 29, 00161 Rome (RM) Italy.
tel. +39 06 44240720, +39 334 7962414
Born in Bari (BA), Italian nationality.
Family situation: married with two children.
Currently lives and works in Rome.

Qualifications:
Master 2nd year Scuola Romana di Fotografia
Bachelor's degree in law.

Photography courses:
in the years 2011 and 2012 annual Master Scuola Romana di Fotografia (still life, landscape, fashion, reportage, history of photography, editing, etc.)
in the years 2013 and 2014 six-months master with the photographer Massimo Mastrorillo.
in the years 2015 and 2017 workshops with photographers: Ricardo Cases, Riccardo Improta, Eolo Perfido, Andreas Weinand, Sara Munari, Nicolò Degiorgis, Rafal Milach/Ania Nalecka.

Self published

• Tessuti Toniù, curated by Der * Lab (2016). Selected In short list Photobook Festival Kassel (2017). Selected as work worthy of mention in the Marco Bastianelli Award (2017).
• 104 (2014)
• Paesaggi interiori (2014)
• GIOIA (Germogli In Crescita O in Aumento) (2013)

Awards
• Photobook Festival Kassel (2017). Tessuti Toniù book, selected In short list.
• Marco Bastianelli Award (2017).Tessuti Toniù book, selected as work worthy of mention
• Moscow International Photo Awards (2016), Honorable Mention for the works: Scampoli di realtà (Art-Abstract Fine); Sunset dream (Fine
Art-Landscape); Harpa (Architecture-Buildings).
• Festival of Savignano s / R, SI FEST OFF, project snatur-azioni (2015).
• Fabriche Award (FEMCA), First Prize, for the work Nostalgia (2013).

Work experiences:
• currently photographer
• 1990-2010 teaching of law and economics in public institutes
Secondary education.