Post-lockdown visual narrative through shadows, architecture, and memory
During the summer of 2020, in a post-pandemic context, I was commissioned by a Neapolitan restaurant in Paris to build a photographic archive for use in social media campaigns. The brief focused on highlighting the deep connection between Parisian food experiences and the city of Naples — a symbol of enduring home-cooked flavours.Photographing Naples is one of the most complex visual tasks: it’s easy to fall into cliché or the picturesque. I deliberately chose to avoid depicting food. Instead, I worked inside one of the most beautiful historical buildings in Naples, following childhood shadows, silences, walls, tuff textures, windows, yellows and greys.
In this process, I couldn’t forget the reflections of my friend Luca Salza in Naples entre Baroque et lumières, and his writings on Thomas Jones and the violence of images. This series becomes both an interior and exterior exercise in visual restraint and presence.
