Elena Fantini

The photo belongs to the series "Last night I had the strangest dream", which is a project about nocturnal visions. The picture wants to take the viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimension which bounces from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusions. I take my photographs in ambient light and in conditions of poor visibility to emphasize the force of the visible things as well as the strength of the darkness which surrounds them.
Digital, Light box 70 x 50 cm, 2011.

There is nothing to see, nothing to read, nobody to talk to. He is locked up in the darkness.
The photo belongs to the series "Last night I had the strangest dream", which is a project about nocturnal visions. The picture wants to take the viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimension which bounces from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusions. I take my photographs in ambient light and in conditions of poor visibility to emphasize the force of the visible things as well as the strength of the darkness which surrounds them. The characters living in those landscapes seem to stand against that darkness, because of their reality and concreteness. Meanwhile they remind us of how fragile and thin is the limit from which another and unknown world breaks out. It is exactly from those ambivalences that the core of this project is born. From one side what is visible that shows our perception of reality. From the other side, imagination that is set free from any rati
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Is this an African landscape? It actually looks like a studio picture. But it is Africa indeed. The woman and the house belongs to a Samburu village in north Kenya but the photo has been modified in order to emphasize the idea of the “setting” that there is usually behind most of the information and news we got from this country.

There is nothing to see, nothing to read, nobody to talk to. He is locked up in the darkness.
The photo belongs to the series "Last night I had the strangest dream", which is a project about nocturnal visions. The picture wants to take the viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimension which bounces from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusions. I take my photographs in ambient light and in conditions of poor visibility to emphasize the force of the visible things as well as the strength of the darkness which surrounds them. The characters living in those landscapes seem to stand against that darkness, because of their reality and concreteness. Meanwhile they remind us of how fragile and thin is the limit from which another and unknown world breaks out. It is exactly from those ambivalences that the core of this project is born. From one side what is visible that shows our perception of reality. From the other side, imagination that is set free from any rati
..

The photo belongs to the series "Last night I had the strangest dream",
which is a project about nocturnal visions. The picture wants to take the
viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimension which bounces
from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusions. I take my
photographs in ambient light and in conditions of poor visibility to
emphasize the force of the visible things as well as the strength of the
darkness which surrounds them.
The characters living in those landscapes seem to stand against that
darkness, because of their reality and concreteness. Meanwhile they remind
us of how fragile and thin is the limit from which another and unknown world
breaks out. It is exactly from those ambivalences that the core of this
project is born. From one side what is visible that shows our perception of
reality. From the other side, imagination that is set free from any rational
influ

The photo belongs to the series "Last night I had the strangest dream",
which is a project about nocturnal visions. The picture wants to take the
viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimension which bounces
from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusions. I take my
photographs in ambient light and in conditions of poor visibility to
emphasize the force of the visible things as well as the strength of the
darkness which surrounds them.
The characters living in those landscapes seem to stand against that
darkness, because of their reality and concreteness. Meanwhile they remind
us of how fragile and thin is the limit from which another and unknown world
breaks out. It is exactly from those ambivalences that the core of this
project is born. From one side what is visible that shows our perception of
reality. From the other side, imagination that is set free from any rational
influ

The photo belongs to the series "Last night I had the strangest dream",
which is a project about nocturnal visions. The picture wants to take the
viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimension which bounces
from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusions. I take my
photographs in ambient light and in conditions of poor visibility to
emphasize the force of the visible things as well as the strength of the
darkness which surrounds them.
The characters living in those landscapes seem to stand against that
darkness, because of their reality and concreteness. Meanwhile they remind
us of how fragile and thin is the limit from which another and unknown world
breaks out. It is exactly from those ambivalences that the core of this
project is born. From one side what is visible that shows our perception of
reality. From the other side, imagination that is set free from any rational
influ

The photo belongs to the series "Last night I had the strangest dream",
which is a project about nocturnal visions. The picture wants to take the
viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimension which bounces
from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusions. I take my
photographs in ambient light and in conditions of poor visibility to
emphasize the force of the visible things as well as the strength of the
darkness which surrounds them.
The characters living in those landscapes seem to stand against that
darkness, because of their reality and concreteness. Meanwhile they remind
us of how fragile and thin is the limit from which another and unknown world
breaks out. It is exactly from those ambivalences that the core of this
project is born. From one side what is visible that shows our perception of
reality. From the other side, imagination that is set free from any rational
influ

what would it happen if wild animals were living in the city? From a journey to Africa I've started wondering of our relationship with animals. I mixed therefore pictures from a travel to the most "metropolitan" city in my imaginery, New York, and pictures of animals taken in the Kenyan National parks.

What would it happen if wild animals were living in the city? From a journey to Africa I've started wondering of our relationship with animals. I mixed therefore pictures from a travel to the most "metropolitan" city in my imaginery, New York, and pictures of animals taken in the Kenyan National parks.

What would it happen if wild animals were living in the city? From a journey to Africa I've started wondering of our relationship with animals. I mixed therefore pictures from a travel to the most "metropolitan" city in my imaginery, New York, and pictures of animals taken in the Kenyan National parks.

From the series "Last night I had the strangest dream". This photo is a part of a project on night visions. The picture want to guide viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimensions which source from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusion. I take my photograph in ambient light and in conditions of very poor visibility to emphasize the force of the visible things.

From the series "Last night I had the strangest dream". This photo is a part of a project on night visions. The picture want to guide viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimensions which source from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusion. I take my photograph in ambient light and in conditions of very poor visibility to emphasize the force of the visible things.

From the series "Last night I had the strangest dream". This photo is a part of a project on night visions. The picture want to guide viewer into a dreamlike, enigmatic and mysterious dimensions which source from literary, pictorial and cinematographic allusion. I take my photograph in ambient light and in conditions of very poor visibility to emphasize the force of the visible things.