This series belongs to a personal research about visual perception of urban environment. Here I try to step back from  the focus horizon, or understanding soil and try to catch the blurred point of view of an expact who approaches a foreign country and differernt environment.
Visual cracks are therefore moments of focuse and comprehension.

Visual cracks

This selection represents the atmosphere  I've perceived in South Korea and mostly in Seoul. 
The city, its urbanscapes and people are like submerged in a vaste acquarium. Main peculiarties of this environment are the strong attachment to traditions such as the hunger to look foward and discover. I've tried to explore these opposite sides by proposing a variety of situations: grey buildings, fancy garbage, bright nature and portraits are the subjects I focused on.

Underwater in Seoul

Aesthetic attempt to unveil the city itself.
Buildings, streets and humans were the subjects i’ve mostly focused
on. The pics were either taken in CBD and suburbs too, following the signs of an exotic and savage nature. By wandering around, i perceived a vivid and raw materiality made of leaves and dyes, wild skyscrapers and nightlights. Surrounded by an unpredictable citylife, people are sometimes struggled in their emotions and distracted from reality. As time went by, I got used of shooting in a black&white state of mind. This style has soon became the perfect mean to express two sides of reality: the solid and textured existence opposed to the alienation of human being.

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