On the fly. Photographs by Matthew Chinellato

We live in a new phase of the Iconism Age, in other words, we are in the era of the image automatically, ingeniously initiated by Daguerre, with his invention in 1839 .
A phase , the current one , according to the "digital" , a term for me obnoxious, inaccurate , however , which can be confused with the famous medicine , who saved many lives in his time with the " heartache".
The French, bless them , have called "numérique" .
But young Matthew is a photographer amphibian, and these distinctions do not worry, neither distract him from his passion for photography.
Matthew has used since childhood, when he was a student of mine at the IUAV, the old system "analog" (alas , another lemma scioccherello, because the current is analog electronic photography , reflecting on the definitions of Roland Barthes, dated 1961! ).
He always tried , even with intelligence activities, to capture lively scenes of environment , or anomalies , passing events , which are historical stimuli for photographers.
And not only the seagulls love of bread thrown into the lagoon, but the passing lights , and colors , often new and dazzling , so amazing . Or the emblematic Venetian mists and fogs , in comparison with flashing colors , as in the houses of Burano, painted with chemical pigments that mimic the color television.
So Matthew Chinellato , with an eye virginal , is revisiting , even in the " trivial " , its habitat and fails gradually to be surprised , to discover and report in picture , everyday aspects of the new landscape , without hesitation for the before and after of Photography from the photoelectron photochemistry.
What matters to him is to hold in a photograph a thought, an emotion, and sometimes he also manages to capture a moment of poetry.
The photograph "Venetian" Matthew has a new lover, gentle author, it deserves attention for its future.
 
Italo Zannier

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