{"id":10,"date":"2023-09-30T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10004\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2024-10-01T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:03:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10004\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the project “Fl\u00e2neur at work”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Born in 2020 amidst the global pandemic, this project stands as a response to the forced suspension of time, inviting a conscious reclamation of urban space and rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an era of digital transparency, street photography emerges as an act of resistance against society’s pathological acceleration. The use of smartphones and old compact cameras becomes a strategy to democratize the photographic act, challenging dominant aesthetic canons and the obsession with technical perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The active roll as the stone rolls, in obedience to the stupidity of the laws of mechanics.<\/p>\n \u2014 Friedrich Nietzsche<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The contemporary fl\u00e2neur, armed with an accessible camera, moves against the current in a world obsessed with productivity. Each shot becomes an act of rebellion against the achievement society, an attempt to reclaim time suspended by the pandemic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The search for punctum<\/em>, as theorized by Roland Barthes, becomes a practice of resistance in the ordinary. It’s an invitation to rediscover the hidden depth in the mundane, overcoming the superficiality of visual hyper-stimulation that characterizes the era of the digital swarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project proposes a new form of visual activism, revealing the revolutionary potential inherent in the everyday. Street photography becomes a practice of deconstructing reality, a tool to unveil the contradictions of the transparency society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An intoxication comes over the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets. With each step, the walk takes on greater momentum; ever weaker grow the temptations of shops, of bistros, of smiling women, ever more irresistible the magnetism of the next streetcorner, of a distant mass of foliage, of a street name. Then comes hunger. Our man wants nothing to do with the myriad possibilities offered to sate his appetite. Like an ascetic animal, he flits through unknown districts\u2014until, utterly exhausted, he stumbles into his room, which receives him coldly and wears a strange air.<\/p>\n \u2014 Walter Benjamin<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Fl\u00e2neur at Work” is a call to action, an invitation to slow down and resist. In a world that demands constant connectivity and productivity, the act of stopping and contemplating becomes the most radical of revolutions, a way to reaffirm the value of time rediscovered in an era of global uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Stefano Carotenuto<\/a> is a designer at the National Research Council of Italy and an amateur street photographer. Originally from Naples and now based in Milan. His photography has earned recognition from Magnum photographers Martin Parr and Steve McCurry, and has been showcased at international venues like Art Basel Week at the HistoryMiami Museum. He has been featured in interviews by photographer and writer Maurizio Fiorino in Corriere Della Sera Style Magazine and by photographer Mario Mencacci on FIAF.net. Stefano is also a co-author of the book “10 Street Photography”, published in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get in touch please write me an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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