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Photo Book The images I filmed in faraway places in days far gone intertwine in dissolves, are transformed into photographs Dissolves Stefano Maria Palombi Edition 01/2011

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Sometimes in the editing room, sometimes in my mind, the faces and stories that our camera has captured become intertwined in a series of unpredictable dissolves.

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Tired or, rather, exhausted after a day of sweat,

dust, and emotions squared, I get on the jeep that

will take us back to a bed or, perhaps, a simple

hammock.

I force my sight out the windows as we pass from

village to village. And the magic begins. The scenes

that were � lmed a few hours or many months and

miles ago get confused with the images that are

now passing in front of my eyes, in a series of very

slow dissolves.

Everything is moving at � fty frames per second, in

front of my eyes without a backdrop.

I’m here, in the poor and starry Chaco, but also

along the Rio Madeira lit and shaken by lightning

and thunder. Or in the sky, red as the bill of the

Tucans, while behind me the huts of the Bakairi

indios fade out.

I am here now, but there is another me who, swept

like a cloud by the wind of Patagonia, crosses the

drunken and sweet Sunday of Antigua Guatemala

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and leaps across the shit-fragrant puddles of

the slum at Kibera or enjoys through his tears

the panorama of faces and shacks of the favela

Rochina. There isn’t a fragile instant, there isn’t a

detail which escapes the frame of my gaze.

In this way, I succeed in coming in touch with the

life that is � owing before me.

Lord of an emotional energy, of a hypersensitivity

that leads me inside, inside, inside all that I see.

And so, all that I have not been, that I lost along the

way, all that has made living dif� cult, made me feel

uncomfortable, alone, and perhaps unhappy, now

comes back to me in a rush, with open arms. And

hugs me tightly and kisses me and caresses me

and whispers sweet words to me that make me fall

in love.

Like a shaman, I look at this world, these faces,

these walls, these skies, and feel at peace. Full of

very beautiful words that � ee away from me and

that I shall have lost forever. Full of thoughts

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that make me feel light, full of limpid visions that

bestow an in� nite number of existences upon me.

A peace as contagious as one of the diseases that

so worry me and that in this moment make me

smile. A peace that moves with the slow paces of a

young girl with wood on her shoulders and arrives

in the beds of those who love me and have loved

me. Peace and visions. Without the peyote of the

Mexican sorcerers, without the smoke shot up the

nose by the blowguns of the Yanomani indios.

It’s a gift from the heavens, a gift for me.

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Concept: SMP+Texts: Stefano Maria PalombiDirector: Stefano Maria Palombi Director of Photography: Leo Carbotta, Alessio Gelsini, Gianluca LaudadioEdit: Anna Poscetti, Stefano Maria PalombiProduction Company: Cineteam Translations: Lyrical Translations www.lyrical-translations.com

All the images come from the Eight Per Mille and Offerings Campaign in favor of the priests of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

www.stefanopalombi.com

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