A strong, touching and courageous experience, on a cargo ship, from Italy to Baltimore. The first literary work by photographer Seb Falchi Martinez, published by Taphros Editrice, the story is a mix of emotions in the conquest of America: a sui generis immigrant of the third millennium, she leaves “midway on the journey” of her life, to discover a new self. The storm that crosses her has waves much higher than the ocean and the choice to travel the ancient sea route, instead of taking a plane, is the result of an awareness: the long distance will allow the author to explore his feelings and the pen to flow on the notebooks, soaked in the nostalgia of migrating, the words of the young crew, the bright colors of waiting. The path of Falchi Martinez in “The Illiterate Emigrant. On Andare Restando”, like that of anyone in search of another opportunity; once she arrives in America she will return as a student to study photography and psychology. ”Beauty for me is the freedom to change to be “who and what” we have always dreamed of being for ourselves – says the author. The freedom I am talking about coincides with something inevitable and necessary that is needed to reach it and then exercise it and this something is called the courage to change our life vertiginously; courage is universal and has the gift of ubiquity, because it follows us always and everywhere”. But courage, warns the author, is a gift. “If those who loved us did not teach it to us, as well as the freedom to be us, with our extraordinary differences, it is because they too were illiterate”. There is a wide range of food for thought that will be explored during the presentation of the volume, tomorrow, May 25, at 7:00 pm, in the exhibition hall of the Tourist Office of San Teodoro. The literary performance will feature psychoanalyst Annamarie Kroke, publisher Dario Maiore and actress Carla Baffi, and will exhibit “La valigia”, a symbolic work by the artist from Mamoiada, Giovanni Paddeu.
Seb Falchi Martinez, lives and works between his native Sardinia and America. For several years he has collaborated as a street photographer with the Officine Kairòs Agency (Milan) and Viaggiatori.com. In the United States he obtained a diploma in black and white analog photography at the MPC (Monterey Peninsula College). At the same college he attended psychology courses to combine photographic knowledge with the psychological knowledge of introspective investigation through the process of shooting and printing in the darkroom (DRPT). His teachers were Martha Casanave, Kevin Bransfield and Greg Mettler; he received the Edward Weston award for black and white photography and his work is exhibited at the MMA. He lives in the United States. In Italy he promotes projects in defense of human rights and identities, in particular that of psychological health, dealing with Dark Room Photo Therapy. Assistant (outside studio) of psychotherapists authorized to treat trauma (PTSD).
