{"id":375925,"date":"2020-05-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/be-amazed\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:15:15","slug":"be-amazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/be-amazed\/","title":{"rendered":"Be amazed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We asked our authors<\/a> and our network<\/a> to answer three questions on how they are coping with this challenging moment in history. Here is an interview with the photographer, video maker and author of DooG Reporter MARCO BARBIERI<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

Is there any beauty in the world, even banal, that you have rediscovered in this period? <\/h5>\n\n

One of the things I most like to do when I have a lot of time on my hands is to reopen the old statuettes in my parents’ house and let myself be amazed<\/strong>. On some boxes, I wrote the contents on the outside with a felt-tip pen, but others are anonymous and surprising. In the garage where my father<\/a> stored his tools, next to the laundry room, is a cardboard box, and inside<\/strong> it are family<\/strong> photographs<\/strong>. I say photographs and not albums because they are not tidy; I would say they are in bulk. The most recent ones date back to the 1990s and are stored in those 10×15 coloured plastic binders, while the older ones are worn and bear the signs of time and less than impeccable storage.<\/p>\n\n

My mum often says, ‘I don’t like looking at pictures again’ with a strong melancholic tone. But I am convinced that they believe, as I do, in their beauty.<\/p>\n\n

How do you think your profession has changed or will change?<\/h5>\n\n

My profession has certainly changed and will continue to change. Undoubtedly, commercial photography is relatively stagnant, and content production for companies has slowed down and conformed to a few shared and banal messages. Epic heroism, presence despite the distance, and recovery. Often also used inappropriately. <\/p>\n\n

There are many critical issues<\/strong>, from the inability to travel to economic difficulties. But what makes work more complicated is ‘social<\/strong> distancing<\/strong>‘. Unfortunately, we talk about this and not about responsibility<\/strong>. The term ‘social’ implies all the genuineness and depth of the relationship with the other, a point on which I have always tried to work and improve myself and which I believe is fundamental in being a photographer.<\/p>\n\n

A picture, a book and a song that represent this period for you.<\/h5>\n\n

During this time, I stopped, watched and listened a lot. Of everything. The image<\/strong> that sticks with me the most is a television image, an ugly image the government has given of itself. Italian parliamentarians brawl in the Chamber. During an emergency, this also happens, and I cannot understand how in politics, one can still chase one’s interests in such a situation. I know the country’s fragility and limitations, so I am certainly not shocked, but I expected better.<\/p>\n\n

So I often took refuge in watching photos, films, and music playlists.<\/p>\n\n

A book? Can I swap it for a TV<\/strong> series<\/strong>? I have to be direct; I have never been a big reader. And even these days, I have not changed my habits. But it has to be said, trying to regain some credit: Mr Robot<\/em> is an excellent series, and Afterlife<\/a><\/em> is poetry.<\/p>\n\n

For music<\/strong>, I rely on playlists: I discovered one created by Thom Yorke<\/strong> for Sonos<\/strong> Radio<\/strong>. Fantastic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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