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ALONG THE PO
ANALOG PHOTOS by Michele Tassinari

I love to photograph the Po.
You would say that it’s a sad place, but I like it a lot because it reminds me
of a kind of poverty that is subtraction which gives a peace.
Subtraction of colors, sounds, masses.
It makes me think of Ermanno Olmi, Bernardo Bertolucci and the dignity
of a tough life along the river, which can also be frightening.
But that afternoon the Po was very calm.
The sun finally came out, so I went to Guastalla, in the southern Reggiana aerea.
Along the bank there was almost no one.
You couldn’t hear a voice.
A few people walking silently and some kids playng the drums.
It was a perfect soundtrack and even the highway in the distance wasn’t disturbing.
I played with the horizon, with the landscape’s few elemnts and with the light.
There was something romantic, harmonius, that makes you recall beautiful things.

About author:

My name is Michele Tassinari and I live and work in Italy.
I like to take pictures of analog films, especially about nature and city landscapes.
Take pictures for me means to transmit something that usually would find it hard to say with words.
I think at this famous sentence by Edward Hopper:
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint".

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