MartianIdiot

conspicilla I first became interested in glasses when I developed presbyopia; but I only began to approach them from a photographic perspective by chance, after reading Barthes: in Camera Lucida, the punctum is that detail which wounds, stings, and captures the viewer beyond the general meaning of the image. I then found a rich source of reflection in the work of Greg Gorman. And so I began to reflect on the matter. Glasses do not simply cover the gaze: they transform it into a surface. They frame the face, protect it, expose it, make it more legible and, at the same time, more distant. When they become the true subject of the image, the portrait changes in nature: it no longer seeks merely the person, but the subtle boundary between the one who looks, the one who is looked at, and what is reflected in between. Here, the portrait tends to become an inhabited still life: the face remains alive, but the hierarchy of the image shifts to the object. In candid or street photography