Sebastiano Pupillo
Training the eye on daily life and proximity, Pupillo uses photography to tell sustainability stories through care. Her work is a reflective discovery and an open experiment. The shot sequence suggests a pop narrative between chance and choice, while the aging film’s color shift evokes a longing for light.
I’ve been taking photos since I was 11 years old. Now I’m almost 49, but I don’t consider myself a professional photographer. It’s never been my main job and still isn’t today. Photography is just something I feel compelled to do. Perhaps it’s just the horror of being forgotten when I’m dead, so I’m trying to leave as many traces as possible of what I see with my eyes (and through a viewfinder). I’m quite a nerd, so I switched to digital around 2008 but never completely. I still think the real magic happens when there’s a roll in the camera and I’m pressured to do my best before the 36th frame.
Used material, technique, support:
Photographic prints on cardboard packaging.
Artwork Description:
This work stems from the discovery of a Lomography camera similar to the “disposable” ones, with the original roll of film still inside, never started, expired several years ago and stored in poor conditions. The camera was given to me by a relative, then forgotten in a backpack and found at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, when I was stuck in Sicily due to the lockdown. I decided to shoot the entire film in a short time, photographing what was around me and myself. The prints obtained were then glued onto a home delivery box for fruit.
