Lorenzo Castore

After an eventful childhood marked by constant changes of homes and context and an adolescence driven by the obsessive need to find my way, one day in the early 90’s I stumbled upon photography: as a journey in the exterior and the inner world, it befitted my nature. Since then, I have worked passionately, restlessly and with dedication, keep searching for an emotional tension which brings a sense of wonder. In 2011 a dramatic event changed my life and my relation with time. From then on, I started to look at what I was doing with new eyes and determination. An imaginary map of belonging was finally showing its shape. The passage of time forms a new alphabet, a new language, and stimulates a revelation: memory emerges, experience transforms into something much wider. Through photography I attempt to leave traces of a presence made from encounters and moments in the present, through which I try to build a feeling of timeless belonging – my reality. My intention is to structure my constellation, which should speak about my relation to others as much as about me. Works born of casual encounters made outside my daily life alternate and are mixed with more strictly autobiographical ones: the latter could not exist without the former.
Ultimately, my work is characterized by long term projects focusing on personal experience, memory and the relation between individual stories, history and the present time.

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