Marco Delogu, Massimo Reale
Uomini, Terra e Mare
Listen and let the place explain itself: this is the strategy that I adopted to accompany Marco Delogu’s photographs. Sentences, broken speech captured amid the nocturnal murmur of the Centro Agroalimentare Roma, snatches of words gathered as though raising the volume of the dialogues and monologues that accompany the men’s work. In “Uomini, Terra e Mare” the photographic portraits do not always match the quotations. Indeed the images and the words generally follow separate courses, united only by the factor of time: the exact moment in which a phrase is uttered or an expression captured. It is time that imbues words and images with value, allowing the coldness and fatigue of these jobs to show through, and it is in relation to the hands of the clock that the meaning of words and photographs is transformed or reinforced. What I think that I’ve found in the ultra-modern structure of the Centro Agroalimentare Roma is the voice of an ancient world that is in no way unprepared for the advance of globalism; people who are entering the future with the equilibrium of a seafarer or the solid stride of a peasant.
Massimo Reale
Marco Delogu was born in 1960 in Rome, where he still lives and works.
His work focuses on portraits of social groups connected by common experiences and languages. He has published over 20 books and has exhibited his work in several galleries and museums in Italy and abroad, including the Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Rome; the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; the Warburg Institute, London; the Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds; IRCAM - Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Museé de l'Elysee, Lausanne; the PhotoMuseum, Moscow; the ex-GIL, Rome; and the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
He is director of FotoGrafia, the international photography festival held in Rome.
Massimo Reale was born in Florence in 1966. A gentleman rider, for Punctum he has edited “Photofinish vol. II” and “Paesaggi romani con Tram e Bus”, and written a story featured in “Capalbio” and the texts for “Uomini, Terra e Mare” and “I Trenta Assassini”.
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