Manuel Marano
by Altered
by Altered
at ELITE PARK SUNDAY - Round # 4
Milan - March 6, 2011
The monsoon rain fascinates me. The moments that precede and those that follow give an unrealistic scenario, the sky seems to merge with the earth, the colors fade away gently. Nothing would portend a catastrophic event such as the giver of life. The sound of the water invades the hearing and sight. Discerning a human figure becomes difficult if not impossible. Taking photographs gives the same sense actions in those moments when you do not know what really happened and you have only a vague idea.
The photograph is a witness of an intuition: the context, people and details of the faces you back to reality and allow you to savor a moment of life you have lived only half a minute not rational measure, an idea that you own the world around you and makes you walk the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. In major cities across the country, one of the poorest and most populated in the world living conditions are often very difficult, the population, although they work, live below the poverty line. In most cases it is piecework, involving entire families in the construction industry is that manufacturing and, although forbidden by law since 1992, exploitation of child labor. The search for recyclable materials in municipal waste becomes a means of subsistence. (Manuel Marano)
Manuel Marano
Born in Milan in 1972. After earning a degree in Graphic Arts began working in the field of printing Off-Set. Soon abandoned the graphics to work as a freelance in the field of fashion. From 2009 he devoted himself to photojournalism: his work focuses mainly on social dynamics within large and small groups, urban and otherwise. Also in 2009 is among the finalists in the Celeste Prize and won the first prize at the American Photographic Artists Awards, for the Portraits section. His latest project of documentation of reality 'social and professional respect of certain "human groups" in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Altered
alteration is a group of design and dissemination of contemporary languages.
The desire is to work with artists and actually moving outside of the great art circuit, with proposals for breaking research and complaint.
Open to all forms of contamination, investigate and try to collect new artistic figures, in order to alter the sensitivity and the critical rebuild.
altered and a reflection on the continuous progress / regress of cultural offerings that surround us, capturing new ideas and proposals that arise in the area.
Teatro Franco Parenti
Via Pier Lombardo, 14
Milan, 20135
12.00 - 24.00 Free admission