CIRO POTENZA
NEW MEDIA ART

CIRO POTENZA

I left home at 22, quitting my job, leaving my friends and family to travel Europe by myself. In Scotland I eventually met my wife, we've been living here since 2012. Life intervened and other tasks took a priority to Photography. During that time, I stopped taking pictures. 

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Years later, in 2017, inspired by my wife and friends - I again picked up my cameras. I now see myself on a mission to make up for years of lost time.

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In these collected works there are clues and relationships which go on to find a more articulate expression in my later images. Themes like ‘linear’, ‘redaction’, ‘introspection’ are recurrent in my photography.

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I have often used the theme ‘linear’ - the streets, the colours, the concept of travel and movement is conveyed in the subject choice. In many of these photographs there is always a path to carry out a journey, sometimes it is nature itself that provides this sense of movement. These paths continue of course in the deleted space not represented in the frame, inviting us to imagine our destination. My creative intention is to find beauty and give people a concern for what they may perceive as their ‘everyday world’. 

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In some of the images I use the subtheme of redaction. Elements of the image are masked to create spaces that can be filled with symbolic content, but also thoughts, memories or imagination. These black lines are as important as what is represented, it is thanks to this redaction that the image takes on meaning. The final completed image is not conclusive, for the missing part is what needs to be reintroduced by the viewer of the picture.

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I found in my practice as a photographer I am drawn to this compositional constructed approach. In essence I am searching for a path. I seek these in my life, in my imagination and here in my photographs.