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83<br />
Roberto Battistelli fotografato da<br />
photographed by Giovanni Gastel<br />
om. I started to print my own negatives, but I did it without<br />
paying too much attention. Then I analysed things<br />
and, in the magic of darkness, wrote on a note-block<br />
about my relationship with life”.<br />
What can you tell me about Giovanni Gastel?<br />
“Photographers appear to be somewhat frivolous,<br />
hobbyists. But that isn’t so. My affinity with and at the same<br />
time my difference from the great Giovanni Gastel have both<br />
projected me onto the Mount Olympus of art photography.<br />
Thanks to him, who has created icons, I have become acquainted<br />
with all living photographers, with their high-flung<br />
characteristics, which are, unfortunately, limited by each<br />
one’s generation. Berengo, Gardin, Scianna, Jodice, Bello,<br />
Toscani, world-class Italian artists who have, moreover, filed<br />
away history, all between 74 and 83 years old”.<br />
Which are your greatest affinities with Gastel the icon?<br />
“True friendship and aesthetic sensibility”.<br />
Do you mean in front of every object?<br />
“What makes a difference is ‘your’ light - in connection<br />
to the poetry inherent in a boat, in Filicudi’s nature,<br />
in Fauglia among prestigious wines, in buildings, with<br />
incursori (Italian Navy Seals) and aviators, in a face’s<br />
wrinkles, in the impalpable lines of moving traffic, in an<br />
abandoned factory”.<br />
How many pictures have you taken so far?<br />
Let me answer like Giovanni Gastel would. I don’t know.
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