Daniele Passaro returns to exhibit his travel photographs, from 7 to 13 February at Spazioquattro with the personal exhibition “Namibia”. The lawyer from Messina with a passion for photography and travel (he has visited countries on almost all continents), talks about Namibia, one of the most fascinating and wild countries in Africa, establishing its contrasts and secrets. A journey conceived as a total experience of approaching places and people with an attentive and respectful eye on otherness.
But Passaro’s is a continuous search for light, reflected in many pages of the world which here focuses on a young town with ancient roots, crossed and, almost, wounded by the light, as the author writes “Clear, sharp, almost cruel. The contrast between the intense blue sky and the light ground is an invitation to play with geometries, with colors and shadows and every step suggests a new shot, every shadow tells a story. And then there is the desert, with its orange dunes and immense, and its vastness unreal.” A direct light therefore on the desert and on the faces of men and women, witnesses of a thousand-year-old culture. The shots around the world become a personal deposit for the author, part of his visual and sentimental memory, which in the exhibitions becomes a shared narrative, of a traveler who does not insist on a pre-established idea of the destination, but allows himself to be amazed, surrenders to the intrinsic detection of places, because “beauty is not sought but encountered”. His technical ability, which emerges forcefully in panoramas with infinite spaces of nature as well as metropolis skylines, is combined with sensitivity and lyrical accent.
