This is an unpublished project premiered today on C41 Magazine.
Christian De Luca was born in 1990 and he growed up in a small town in Piedmont. In 2010 he moved to Milan where he starts to study the analog photography and its entire development process.
He explores the strength of light and the balance of the composition. Its photography is the result of an attraction for harmony and careful research for symmetry.
About ‘Missing’ – words by Sara Della Mattia:
“I lost my cat, and from that moment on I am constantly searching for something that exists, but that I don’t have”. Lack is an abstract concept: what you are looking for can be near, it can be far, it can be there at the back, beyond the city limits, or right here behind the house. Where is the absentee you are looking for?
The absence is synonymous with lack. It is able to move the subject towards his own desire, towards the condition of presence, and towards life itself. But what is one constantly looking for, what is one constantly missing? In the photographs that constitute the project “missing”, born almost for fun while Chris was looking for his four-legged friend, one has to wonder about the loneliness and corporeity of the objects immortalized, about their being protagonists in a completely normal situation, and about the journey that one makes, sometimes unconsciously, in pursuit of one’s own object of desire. Or chasing one’s own desire, and that’s it. He felt a void, he felt a need to explore what he had (or didn’t have) inside, and, at the same time, what was outside, what surrounded him and that seemed so full, while he felt exactly the opposite. He needs to find its cat: where is it hidden?
