TITLE: Story of a collapse

The present work originates from the reflection about the consequences of the pandemic, it is a harbinger of suffering and uncertainty, but it is also an opportunity, lost, to practise empathy.
The photographic sequence shows a metropolitan ordinary day as cold and oppressive reality. Thousands people goes around frenzied towards an univocal direction and they never look around.
The mechanical run on fixed rails, makes the soul anesthetised and the heart hard, it doesn’t stop neither when someone, next to us, fall down to the ground, beaten by the speed and the uproar.

AUTHOR: Giacomo Anania (Italy)

Giacomo Anania's style is based on photographic storytelling; the inspiration for his work lies in the photojournalism of the middle of the last century, characterised by an intimate vision.
His preferred media include analogue negatives and silver salt printing, but he hasn't neglected digital photography either. The desire to tell stories, stemming directly from his photojournalistic training, drives him to tackle social issues.
He underwent cross-curricular training, having simultaneously nurtured his humanist side by completing a university course and his artistic side by attending a private drawing school and then through photographic training under the tutelage of expert photographer Gianni Pinnizzotto.
He started shooting at social events when he was a boy and continued his journey by deciding, following reflections stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown periods, to become a full-time photographer.