fake reality – Luigi Barbano Photography

Black and White Tales, Print #36

Barbano Luigi — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:21:41 +0000

I didn’t forgot the anniversary of 9/11, I simply did not found a suitable image for what I wanted to say, so I’m here again with another image from the same road trip of the last 2 Tales.

See you next time with another print.

Black and White Tales, Print #35

Barbano Luigi — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:07:18 +0000

As I anticipated in the last B&W Tale, here another image and another story from the roadtrip I took in South Italy, 30 years ago with my father.

This time we are in Puglia, exactly in Torre Canne and I wonder how the place can be changed in 30 years.

See you next time, probably with another tale and image from the same trip!

Black and White Tales, Print #34

Barbano Luigi — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 09:50:26 +0000

When common sense and a decent education disappear, then we need rules for every aspect of our lives.

A moment of a road trip, father and son, became a picture and years later a symbol of the importance of good education.

See you next time, and remember, it’s prohibited to…

Black and White Tales, Print #33

Barbano Luigi — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:05:08 +0000

The facts regarding Magnum and the suspension of the photographer David Alan Harvey, that you can read about in a PetaPixel article, started a debate online about photojournalism.

As usual, most of the debate was pro or against D.A. Harvey by people not knowing the facts and pretending to judge, forgetting as usual the principle of innocence.

Personally I started to think about photojournalism and why I never worked in that field.

This week picture is a symbol of my choice and a good starting point to explain it.

My opinion about the Magnum case is very simple: I do not understand what is going on and what was behind the series of events, included the elimination of some pictures by Harvey from the agency archive, that ended with the suspension.

I only know that for me a man is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and I’m sure there are better reasons to suspend people from a photo agency, like for example staging images, retouching them and being an a%%^#le with a poor Afgan girl. But if you create a propaganda that fit the agency nobody will suspend you, no matter how much you cheated.

The time will tell how things went.

Black and White Tales, Print #32

Barbano Luigi — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:18 +0000

To express complex ideas we need complex formal languages. In visual arts one of the most important language is composition.

In this week print I wonder why we moved from complex form of compositions to the banality of a “mandatory” rule of thirds… and I wonder also about some other things… It’s a long ranting, you are advised! lol

Until the next one…

Black and White Tales, Print #31

Barbano Luigi — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:27:08 +0000

A real summer t-storm with rain… better than a AI created fake sunny day.

Sometime I just use film photography to document a moment with a medium that cannot be manipulate by AI to create a fake reality. But I’m an old dinosaur still thinking that ethic is essential and truth exists.

See you next time!