TITLE: Shy souls (anime timide)

In Shy Souls, I wish to testify my own quest for the silent, imaginary world inside every human being, spawned by mysterious sources dwelling every soul. A bitter fruit that man has been collecting since the first industrial revolution.
Modernism left men and women trying to break free from the new cages they were put in, every time Technique has tried to shape Humanity. Nowadays - almost a century later - the author chose photography as his best medium because of its inherent speed and uncanny ability in reproducing the (apparent) world we live in: these photos are evidence of his slow-paced, incessant search for the light necessary to break one's own shackles, constantly casting the shadows of their grim lives and devoid of Beauty.

AUTHOR: Carlo Traini (Italy)

About Carlo Traini (biography)

Born in 1964, I was first attracted by the Arts during military service; an attraction later developed into a curious fascination for painting and photography only after 1985.
Though that first creative impulse revealed itself to be shortlived - just a few years later, in 1997, I would stop taking photos altogether with my old camera, I still managed to bring forward and mature a personal journey and research through very few B/W rolls, some polaroids and my meeting with an iconic photographer of the 20th century.
I have no intention of merely illustrate what's out there; I instead always try to write sudden, abrupt stories with my photos and my smartphone allows me to do just that.
I call them "photoequivalences" since my pictures spawn just from what little free will you're still able to have left and the dichotomy between my inner chaos and myself - all of this without forgetting my everlasting metaphysical research.