This is an unpublished project premiered today on C41 Magazine.
Emanuele Andreani was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1994 and he’s currently based in Australia.
His ambition is to become a documentary photographer, who tells stories and analyzes social issues. Since when he started taking photos he has always kept a guide line but the various experience he lived and he’s living changed deeply himself and consequently his vision of the world.
He has always seen photography as art and the beauty of art is its evolution, its way of growing and expanding. For this reason he developed and he’s still developing his line of reasoning. The experiences are part of his knowledge and they lead him to constant changes in the way of being, in the ways of doing and in the ways of interpreting photography. All the experiences for him can be understood ad foundations for the past and the future.
About ‘Iso days’ – words by Emanuele Andreani:
“Iso days”, an abbreviation of “isolation days”, as an Aussie habit to abbreviate words, is a project developed during the lockdown in my stay in Australia.
I have to say my quarantine was different from many others because I haven’t really done much of it as long as I’ve continued working and I’m in a part of the world where the pandemic was not as aggressive as in many other countries, especially like in Italy where my family lives. I admit there was a moment when I thought to leave everything and come back home to stay close to the people I care about, who finally gave me the strength to stay in Australia and continue my adventure even tough that meant to renounce to re-embrace each other.
I live in Perth, the capital of Western Australia, where corona-virus has reached 642 cases with nearly no deaths on a population of almost 2,5 million citizens on a huge territory.
That doesn’t mean they’ve underestimated the situation; on the contrary, thanks to the quick intervention from the government, now the situation is almost back to normal after a bit more than one months of fake lockdown cause even though the most of the activities were closed, there always has been many people around.
At first, with the shutdown of the hospitality activities, I lost my job, fortunately just for two weeks because a friend casually found me a job in a fruiting plant farm. I also found out this place is eligible as special work for the renovation of my visa, so I’m feeling very lucky.
Having been forced to stay home in a not very inspiring, creative, and quite boring environment I followed the journey of the light inside and outside the domestic walls finding out that there is something interesting even where you don’t expect.
As the light slowly changes depending on the times of the day the lockdown and COVID-19 pandemic have brought a societal change. Many people understood that their lives before lockdown were somehow wrong or were not fitting their needs and as a consequence new priorities related to the psycho-physical wellness of a single person or a family have been discovered. And that’s how this new research of the light it’s nothing but the journey I’ve started inside of me during the stillness of the outside life forced by the actual global situation.
