Fotografie e sintesi dei significati



Mostra - File digitale ( 3937 x 2829 pixels 200 dpi - profondità 24 bit - risoluzione 2 - colore sRGB ) Stampa - processo chimico su carta fotografica - formato 30 x 45 - tiratura 1/1 Didascalia luogo : Napoli data : 28 giugno 2005 titolo : la rosa tatuata copyright Stefano Renna fotografia


Fotografie e sintesi dei significati
Camorra : “Voices from the inside” As we become vaccinated towards horror, misuse of power, and violence, our ability to defend ourselves from these influences is weakened. The Camorra is now seen and considered by people as a sort of ordinary ‘primeval violence’ which normally regulates the relationships among people in our territory, including different socio-economical classes. We have learned to classify it and to accept it as such, despite ourselves. Organized crime has now imposed a sort of defensive indifference upon us even when there is a massacre, so that we mechanically relate to the absurd slaughters generated by this sort of tribal power war which is being fought in times of peace. This reality of blood, in spite of it all, is in strong contrasts with the precious everyday normality of ordinary people living in a western country which is both 'culturally' and economically powerful. The boring repetition of what we should normally consider as being unacceptable has conditioned and trapped us in a sort of ethical laziness; our souls are persistently detached and lose their sense of responsibility. We are led to deny our deep sense of dismay and internal denial in front of the atrocities taking place in this war among criminals. This conflict leads to the shedding of blood which is not coloured water, not special effects on TV. Our society pays this tribute in blood to the hypnotic sleep which has made us lose the real meaning of our existence. The result of this devastating relationship between ourselves and this ‘phenomenon’ can be defined as a debasement of the human depth of our understanding of life itself. We have chosen to show the past few years’ work of photo reporter Stefano Renna which underlines the horror and absurdity of the photos we propose, not in order to find a squalid consensus through scandal, neither for the objective of useless rhetoric. Our motivation is sincere; we propose that through poetry and images, we ‘feel together’ the invisible feeling of those people who are “inside these photos”, people who are part of the camorra or who suffer from it. Understanding a phenomenon cannot and should not only be a report, because the facts we might report are the consequences of a way of thinking and being which we cannot relate to. Unless we get to know these people, their reality and way of thinking better, we will never be able to solve these problems. Let us look for our memory, the memory of ourselves and of what can happen and does take place in every moment, which is also because of our own indifference.
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