Ciao Casa
A personal project by Andrea Nonno
As a child, I would often look at a black and white photograph, on the bookshelf in my living room. It portrayed my father, intent on using an old 1970’s Nikon reflex. He was a dentist. I was going to be a photographer.
I started framing what I saw through that same camera. Then the first compact digital cameras appeared, and that passion was slowly set aside in a drawer… A degree in Advertising Techniques, then a job as a graphic designer for a few years. Then nine years ago, I bought my first reflex and started taking pictures again: the places I love, and the most intimate spaces became my testing grounds. I reopened that drawer and fell in love with lighting again.
From then on, photography has become the language through which I interpret the world: comings and goings, wounds and achievements, the roots and the elsewhere, life and death. That spontaneous expression, that unexpected gesture, that clumsy movement, a smile, a kiss, a cry, a jump. Keeping a sharp eye on the subject, waiting for it to fall under the right lighting: and in that instant, suspending reality, shaping the elusive nature of destiny, and watching my life from the outside, so to feel it even more my own.