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We compulsively photograph/video everything and rely on memory cards as documents of our life. Cameras and smartphones are without a doubt a blessing so I am very glad that they exist to “enhance” our memories.
In many years of street photography, I notice that families or friends are often in groups where each single person is swallowed into his own bubble of a personal universe disengaged from the others and, apparently, existing only if in connection to social media. Some prefer to ban cameras and smartphones as a sign of more respect of people, places and events while others say that many people would not go anywhere if they could not photograph and post the destinations on their socials.
To forming a lasting memory, we have to pay attention, to experience the moment fully, with “all” our senses and I see that is becoming a lost practice. Even being a photographer, I for one, like to put down the camera occasionally to notice what the air feels like and write down my feelings about being there. I have nostalgia of the snail-mail age. Postcards may seem like relics but I hope this little nugget of life will not disappear.
Looking at postcards years later that remind me of details which were not clicked, rekindles all my senses. In the last twenty years, I have received many postcards only because I am the one sending them to myself.
This series was built during my many years of photographing in the streets of several most visited holiday destinations where over-tourism has become a major problem causing, among other things, detrimental impacts on the visitor experience.
Istanbul - Turkey
Rome - Italy
Rome - Italy
Florence - Italy
Athens - Greece
Athens - Greece
Rome - Italy
Rome - Italy
Athens - Greece
Paris - France
Athens - Greece