Event Horizon: In general relativity an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In Layman’s terms it is defined as “the point of no return” i.e. the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible. Light emitted from beyond the horizon can never reach the observer. Likewise, any object approaching the horizon from the observer’s side appears to slow down and never quite pass through the horizon

This morning I had a look at my old pictures of the city. The ones I first made when I came in London one year ago. Digital crap shot with an old DSLR camera, point and shoot at random things, infinite series of buildings, shops, people waiting for the bus, blurred evening streets. These pictures tell me now more about myself one year ago than about the place where I actually was, once I read that the artist always make his own portrait, and that is true with photography as well. While you are travelling outside, you are travelling into your heart of darkness at the same time. It was that naif way of shooting picture, with no attention for any formal element, balance or cropping of the image, I took pictures of everything that took my attention, from the bus, in the underground, on my way to work. It was a kind of way of making sense of something to big for you to digest in one shot, a way of constructing my own London AZ of images of rundown estates, narrow passageways, busy streets, 24hours shops, an atlas of everyday faces and everyday places. I was not shooting monuments or in the search of beauty, I can now say that I was just tryin to hit the surface of the city,

. I remembed many places because “I took a picture of it”: too lazy to go out in the morning, in the afternoon I used to jump on a doubledecker and sit on the first floor, takin pictures of everything, collections of blurred and senseless things formed trips in what for me was No man’s land. Eventually it helped me a lot to make sense of my surroundings, the only idea of making photos gives you a different point of view, an attention for the smallest details, something outside the daily perception: it took me 3 months to notice my name on the bins ona street that’s on my way to work.

Everybody links photography to memory but the camera is a device that freeze the outside world as well as an inside horizon, composed by your own sensibility and awareness, your goals and interests, the choice (or not-choice) of format, cropping, film etc. Even a camera can give but a subjective view of the outside world, your selfportrait is always there.