Agenda

In the era of speed traveling, Massimiliano Camellini shows us something that we don’t know, or that we forgot about. Cargo vessels still sail the oceans for days and days, carrying a pilgrim crew. The Italian photographer enters these boats, and captures the settings of the sailors’ daily life. He identifies, through objects, symbols and small tokens, the attempt to reconstruct a daily life that has been lost, a sense of stability within a constantly moving platform. His pictures are back lit, in a deliberate attempt not to identify the surroundings of these a-geographical spaces. Portrayed in the absence of their inhabitants, the cabins represent the people’s need to create a shell in the middle of the sea. The gallery where Al di là dell’ acqua  will be exhibited, overlooks Genova’s old port, in a dialogue between photography and reality.

Cabin n 1, Jolly Cristallo © Massimiliano Camellini, Courtesy of BAG GALLERY