Photography Peppe Tortora

Text Mario Ansalone, Frissón Gallery Rome

History or myth has it that in 1947 American physicist Edwin Land on vacation with his three year old daughter invented the polaroid camera to fulfill the child’s request: to immediately see the photos just taken by her father. With the lightness of a summer whim and the depth of a silted-up blue, Peppe Tortora’s polaroids are true visual therefore emotional impressions. When they move the waters of the sea, the cat’s tail or crooked slopes, they actually uncover landscapes. like instantaneous excavations, an archaeology of the gesture that forgets itself and takes the viewer to the origins of the subject. The important thing they seem to tell us – is to enter the instant, to tear it apart, to flash, to polarize the self, to became light. He keeps on looking.