Anna Positano

CROSSING-OVER

Crossing-over is a series of animated .GIFs based on photographs taken during a site-specific performance in the Maddalena district, in the historic center of Genoa. The performance consisted in offering to shoot portraits for free during an afternoon, waiting for people to spontaneously ask to pose; this action created a perfect situation for relationships among the people who attended. Each portrait was then e-mailed to those who took part to it. Via della Maddalena is a highly representative place for Genoese multiculturalism: a crowded intersection of people of different ages, social statuses, ethnicities and professions. In order to recreate the dialectical and layered aspects of that street, animated .GIFs are used, as this is one of the most basic formats of moving images, thus fully exploiting the possibilities offered by video projection and digital sharing.

Project presented in Giovane Fotografia Italiana #01 | CITIZENSHIP

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