ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Vide Infra, Self-portrait, Digital C-Print on Metallic paper, August 21, 2017, Abruzzo, Italy –
Unable to bridge both the loneliness and the grief resulting from the loss of my father, I go back with my memories to the time spent together.

The photographic process reflects such inability by resorting on video surveillance infra-red illuminators as the only light source, invisible to the human eye, lighting the dark scenes.

By repurposing imaging technology for doing video surveillance to the photographic space the lays at the intersection of fine-arts and documentary, I intend to turn surveillance technology towards myself; to record in my images the resulting introspective investigations.

AUTHOR
Alfonso De Gregorio is an Italian conceptual artist. At the intersection of fine art and documentary, his idea of photography is to raise powerful and political questions about the world we live in.

Alfonso uses his cybersecurity background to research novel photographic processes. Assessed their narrative power, he matches them to a subject-matter and develops the concept.

In his latest projects, Alfonso repurposed imaging technology for doing video surveillance to the spaces that lays at the intersection of fine-art and documentary. He turned surveillance technology towards himself, to record the resulting introspective investigations. In so doing, he aimed to address wider realities that the viewers may have experienced in their lives too.

He generally does not speak of himself in the third person.

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