Nowadays, life is prolonged in time, and that was unthinkable, decades ago: you can see how good it is, by looking at these
portraits.
We can think of a longer perspective in the future to a lot more people in the planet. And we ask ourselves: what will we accomplish
until then? Or rather: what we have accomplished so far, gives us the energy to get there?
These people have stories and maybe these stories are the key to understanding.
These stories may bring us a life lesson, a lesson on how to keep living.
These centenarians who cross my path, show me many things in their expressions: people inhabited by life and that has understood so much.
They become quieter, as if the excess of words is a futility.
An image is like them, quiet.
An image whispers something so we can pay attention.
So this work asks us all: are we paying attention to our elderly?
Do we look at them as if we want to learn?
This work puts the elderly at a level of importance.
The same importance that the art of the portrait puts the person being photographed.
And their looks: sometimes questioning, sometimes contemplative, is always unsettling, their eyes ask: do you see me?
In an era where eternal youth is exalted, creating misshapen faces, by the desire to stop time - those who submit to many tricks to look forever young - these old looks, the skin marked and designed by the years, what do they want to tell us?
These images, are images that disturb and pacify.
in numbers, the legacy these centenarians have eft, so far:
242 children
717 grandchildren
681 great-grandchildren
155 great-great grandchildren
