FMN | Filippo M. Nicoletti - Dark Water
dark water

(2016)

Selected for Magnum Photos Graduate Photographers Award 2017.

"And the fancy was this: are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming? Are not all of us outside this hospital, who dream, more or less the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives?" - Charles Dickens, Night Walks.

dark water

Selected for Magnum Photos Graduate Photographers Award 2017.

"And the fancy was this: are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming? Are not all of us outside this hospital, who dream, more or less the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives?" - Charles Dickens, Night Walks.

During the night hours Cardiff show its less known side. Especially the area near the River Taff takes on an aurea of mystery, the place become unrecognizable and the silhouette of people appear as ghosts of past eras. Not casually the name "Taff" have pre-Celtic origin and mean "dark", both as "without light" and "deceiver". The images gives to the observer the duty of rebuild their meaning, following the river and recreating from time to time a different story depending from the observer.

(ITA VERSION HERE)