Your name
Giuseppe Francavilla
Place of birth
Palermo, Italy
Place where you live now
Bari, Italy
3 words to describe you
stubborn, dreamer, persevering
Why do you take pictures?
It is a need of the soul, a bodily need. The camera is my third eye, the one that collects and sorts information between heart and brain
Where do you get your inspiration?
The sources are various and not strictly related to photography. Painting for example, the Dadaist movement, the Italian Futurist movement. I am also a great observer of social reality so I look very carefully at the sociological implications of the populations I come into contact with.
Who are your influences?
Luigi Ghirri, Gabriele Basilico, Massimo Siragusa, John Lennon, Surrealism, architecture
What determines the subject matter you choose?
When it is not architectural scenarios, the subject of my choice can also be something that has unconsciously left a trace in my mind, such as a scene from a film, a passer-by met by chance in the morning or a song that particularly moved me. Thinking over this chaos of information several times, I create a possible fictional implication around it and treat it as a collage of photos that have a logical and even allegorical discourse
What impact would you like your art to have?
Tickle people's emotional side and take away the burden of hard times for a moment. A momentary lapse of reason, quoting a record from Pink Floyd
What artwork do you never get bored with?
All the works of Luigi Ghirri
Is there anything you want to add?
the best photograph is the one I will take tomorrow

How to dim a fire
Project statement

What to do when a fire breaks out: let yourself be duped by panic? And if it were an inner fire, a fixed thought, a fear residing in the soul ... would we use sand, water, a fire extinguisher?

This project stems from a small event that took place outside my house, while a professional course was taking place for the use of fire extinguishers in the event of a fire in a commercial facility.

And seeing a panicked employee I thought: what better solution: to mitigate or study the causes? 

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