ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Stephen is another stranger I met online.I took his picture where he lives, no setting, just my Mamiya.I like his eyes.

Here’s – in one picture can You find the truth?...or it can be the subjective opinion of the Photographer?Or it can be your opinion?...which will be different.
Is there any truth in a photograph?
Of course I gave my opinion.
Then as we know Society, Education, Parenthood, Relationship, Money make us loose the relation with our body, mind and soul – they act as they are separated when they should work together - and we hide first our body, we feel ashamed of having one, we feel harassed by the images of perfect beauty that “reality” sells us every day and we want to be like them, perfect and frustrated, sad.

We get old and we don’t accept that our body is loosing its power, its attractiveness. Then the mind starts to be obsessed, because nobody wants to get old, nobody wants to be mortal. This sense of mortality is only referred to the body and more the body gets old more the mind can get powerful if trained properly.

But we are too busy with our every day life. We act like we don’t possess one and we should celebrate the body. It is our body, our cage, our recipient, our container.I would never go back in a younger body with a younger mind.

I like Myself Now as Stephen like himself I assume.

But he didn’t like himself after showing him the pictures. He said he looked fat.

To perceive the truth is not the same as to know it.

AUTHOR
Loredana is a freelance Photographer based in London. She grew up in Puglia,in the beautiful South of Italy.

In 2000 she took a degree in Economics, in Bologna, where she had lived, worked and studied for years and in 2007 she decided to relocate to London where she started to do Photography. After studying at University of the Arts, Central St Martins College for one year and getting a Certificate of Photographic Professional Practice, she completed her training in the rough and tumble school of professional freelance press photography as a paparazzi.

Her approach to Photography is very spontaneous and simple but also insightful. She is mostly a self-taught using natural light, sometimes studio and unscripted mise en scenes, ordinarily working with 35mm, medium format and 35mm Dsrl and black and white film.

She states: "I am in love with all aspects of human Life: I am curious about people – their faces, attitudes and emotions, what they think, how they move, their inner world, places, shared times and I like listening to them. My subjects look sad, melancholic, conflicted and confident".

She is also accredited with the National Union of Journalist (NUJ).




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