In Giuliano Ferrari’s photography, a curious tension can be discerned
between memory or even nostalgia and a strong sense of the present,
of the here-and-now, but also of the present as the setting for the contemporary.
His language is that of current events, of telling it “live”, with small format,
and lenses that are often short to turn a more intense gaze on people,
to make space around the figures which recur from one shot to the next,
building up sequences and narratives.
The subjects refer us to a different depth, and Ferrari always attempts
to make the depth of time and history (often visible in a ritual of varying complexity)
coincide with an individual memory:
we can only see and recount something we already hold inside us.
Paolo Barbaro
(photography critic)