“Of course (photography) cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.”

~ Mario Giacomelli

I have been looking at Mario Giacomelli’s images all my life, I think he is one of the greatest photographers who ever lived.A quiet sage and a poet. To me he is like Bach. When I listen to Bach I feel he understood the meaning of life in all its stages I feel exactly the same with Giacomelli. One of my true regrets was that I never got to meet him in person. It was arranged that I would travel to meet him in his village in Senigallia with a photographer friend who knew him well. This was late 1999 but he was taken ill suddenly and our meeting was cancelled and he passed away the following year. But I revisit his images all the time and continue to be moved by them and always learn something new just like re-reading Shakespeare.