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TITLE: Mon Enfance

"Mon Enfance" deals with the theme of memory which is very dear to me.
They are family images, at the time of a childhood, mine, carefree and unrepeatable. They come from super 8 films, small and revolutionary cameras that have had the power to testify and deliver faces, people and moments of family life up to now.
I recovered those films, those not irremediably attacked by time, I projected them on the white wall of the house and I photographed with my camera the most significant scenes that flowed under my eyes. Today I can say that for me it is a touching tale of a time when one was rich without being aware of it. I believe that this work is more than a private story, it is the cross-section of a society that, starting with the family, hardly exists anymore. Memory is everything. The man without memory is as if he had never lived. And that's why I share the images.

AUTHOR: Umberto Verdoliva ITALY

Umberto Verdoliva was born in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) in 1961 and he is close to photography in 2006. The street photography has become his main field of research and activity Immediately. In 2008 he becomes a member of the FIAF and in 2010 joins the international "ViVo" collective.
He is the founder and co-ordinator of Italian collective "SPONTANEA" dedicated to street photography born in 2013. He faces street photography with creativity and perseverance, presenting it often in series or thematic projects, he has a careful and sensitive eye that shows the irony and poetry of the ordinary days.

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