My name is Stefano Agnello and I come from a small village, called Brolo, in Sicily. I am living in Zurich since five years working as a chemist in pharmaceutical research. I am an amateur photographer who started becoming interested in photography in 2016. In particular, I liked how the emotions and feelings could be captured and transferred through photography. Nowadays I am really interested in pursuing long-term projects with the aim to find my own visual language for developing consistent series of photos.
Series
photoCORONA
20207 images
Isolation, soziale Distanz, Einsamkeit sind alles Konzepte, die in allen Nachrichten öffentliche Resonanz gefunden haben und Teil der Sprache unseres täglichen Lebens geworden sind. Fotos von leeren Straßen, Menschen weit voneinander entfernt, allein auf der Straße oder gezwungen, die Welt von ihrem Fenster aus zu betrachten, sind extrem verbreitet geworden. Ich merkte schnell, dass das für mich nicht neu war. Ich habe im letzten Jahr viel Zeit zu Hause verbracht, um einen neuen Job zu suchen. Ich glaube, ich lebte in einer Art Selbstisolation, ohne es zu merken. Und ich denke, das hat mich dazu gebracht, um mich herum Situationen zu sehen und zu bemerken, die meiner Stimmung ähneln. Obwohl all diese Fotos lange vor Covid19 aufgenommen wurden, repräsentieren sie die Stimmung der Einsamkeit und Isolation, in der viele Menschen zusammenleben, lange bevor es ein beliebtes Thema wurde. Obwohl all diese Fotos lange vor Covid19 aufgenommen wurden, repräsentieren sie die Stimmung der Einsamkeit und Isolation, mit der sich heute die meisten Menschen auseinandersetzen mussten und mit denen sie leben lernen mussten. Die Wahrheit ist, dass es viele Menschen gab, die zuvor in diesem Zustand der Unruhe gelebt haben und die auch dann in diesem Zustand weiterleben werden, wenn alles wieder "normal" wird. English Version Isolation, social distance, solitude are all concepts that have found public resonance in all the news and have become part of the language of our daily life. Photos of empty streets, people far apart, alone on the street or forced to look at the world from their window, have become extremely common. I have soon realized that this was not new to me. I have spent a lot of time in the last year at home looking for a new job. I think I was living in a sort of self-isolation without even realizing it. And I think this has led me to notice situations similar to my mood when I was walking on the streets. Although all these photos were taken before the lockdown due to Covid19, they represent the state of solitude and isolation that today a large part of the population had to face and which they had to learn to live with. The reality is that there were many people who lived in this state of instability already before and who will continue to feel this way, even when everything returns to "normal".
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photoSCHWEIZ 2020
10 images
Facing the darkness “You don't find light by avoiding the darkness.” This was my approach in this series, I tried to find and emphasize light in the dark spaces. Light and dark, and so black and white, symbolise good and evil. Therefore, this was also a personal search for light, deciding to face the darkness that everybody bears and often avoids to deal with it. It has been almost a cathartic process to show that the beauty can reside and be found even in the gloomiest places. Furthermore, I find that a silhouette, a shadow or few enlightened elements of a body can be more significant than seeing everything clearly and distinctly, since life is unclear and ambiguous, a mix of dark and bright zones. As a result, I do believe that the light, and so the good, is more powerful and meaningful right in the darkest places.
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