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Paolo Margari
Nationality: IT
Currently Living: Brussels
Member Since: 8/26/2008
I’ve been waiting about 25 years before finding out that photography was a great part of my life.
Photography, to me, is the mirror of space and time, a kind of secret love and pride.
Catching an instant is like getting hold of a fragment of past and throwing it into the future. It is not important who will be there to grab it.
History is a portion of truth and so is photography. We don’t know about other moments or places around it.
And often we don’t know anything about the photographer, who is a technician, or a random player or an artist, able to show his will through other...
I’ve been waiting about 25 years before finding out that photography was a great part of my life.
Photography, to me, is the mirror of space and time, a kind of secret love and pride.
Catching an instant is like getting hold of a fragment of past and throwing it into the future. It is not important who will be there to grab it.
History is a portion of truth and so is photography. We don’t know about other moments or places around it.
And often we don’t know anything about the photographer, who is a technician, or a random player or an artist, able to show his will through other people’s perception.
That’s my idea of photography and that’s me, through the images I throw into the future, day by day.
I have a Flickr account with more than 9 million views. My photos have been published on popular media worldwide including Forbes, LSE (London School of Economics), UNESCO, The Independent, Sputnik, UN, EU Commission.
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