Flavio Scarpacci |
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He was born in Tolentino in 1979. He is a museum operator and a photographer for passion.
Thanks to his studies and his practical researches he develops some museoghraphic and ethnographic expertise.
He attended the university in Macerata and graduated in Cultural Anthropology with the thesis “Between legend and representation: the Sibilla and the popular symbolic imaginary in the territories of Sibillini.
“The main subject is the human being in relationship with his environment. The images try to catch the moment in which an emotion is communicated, a look, an expression, a gesture. Everything starts with something that catches my attention. The photos offer an input to meditate but without any central thread. They are the result of different moments during my travels o normal days. I chose the black and white because it underlines the contrasts and let the meaning emerging as a gesture of purification. I want to research the truth to involve the public both esthetically and emotionally.” |
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The works of FLAVIO SCARPACCI |
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Harmonies
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«Do we have the right to ignore them just because we have cars, cannons, planes, coca-cola and they don’t? (...) Or do we have the right to oblige them to change their language, religion, habits as missionaries would like to? What do we gain from this? We can exploit them better, nothing else” (Mario Vargas Llosa).
Shavi Community (Peruvian Amazon)
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Hug
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(Iguazù falls, on the frontier between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil)
Two young people embracing before they start the path to the “Devil’s throat), an impressive place where the water fall resoundingly making vapor whirls up to 70 metres.
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A fairly justified mistrust
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Young lady from a Uranian community in S. Martha village (Tigrillo, tributary of Chambira river- Peruvian Amazon)
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Wisdom
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Apu, political leader of Candoshi community (Uritu Yacu river, Loreto region, Peruvian Amazon)
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Intimacy
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They have a good relationship to the world they live in: a complex system of rituals, prohibitions, habits, handed out to preserve the apparently exuberant nature they depend on, which is actually very fragile. A young woman’s ritual decoration by her mother. (Shawi community of Canoa Puerto, Peruvian Amazon)
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Shawy proud
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Women from Nueva Luz community, Shawi ethnic group (Peruvian Amazon)
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Randomness
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Dimension 30x45cm Technique Digital photo Material Matt photo paper
(Tolentino, Italy)
I was about to take a picture, when she appeared...
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Chasing away negativity
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This ritual is kind of a “purification” and “fortification”. The ceremony starts with the catching of a piece of fruit (huiti), which is used to decorate the child’s body. Some essential elements are the presence of the mother and the blessing brought from this mix (Shawi community, Peruvian Amazon)
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They remained there observing me
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Shawi children from Nueva Luz community (Cachivacu river, Balsapuerto district- Peruvian Amazon)
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I don’t need anything
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(Moulay Idriss, Marocco)
The well-deserved rest after a work day... perhaps not! You often try to build one’s image, to understand where he is and what he is doing. Sometimes, he doesn’t need anything, apart from not being judged!
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The burden of history
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Dimension 30x40 cm Technique Digital photo Material Matt photo paper
(Humahuaca, Argentina)
The well-deserved rest after a work day... perhaps not! You often try to build one’s image, to understand where he is and what he is doing. Sometimes, he doesn’t need anything, apart from not being judged!
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The beginning of the way...upward!
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Yavi, on the frontier between Argentina and Bolivia. It’s an extraordinary isolated little town, it’s a natural wild landscape which can’t be compared to anything else we are used to see.
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