I am a photographer and a bilingual poet in Italian and in English. Photography and poetry share the visual and verbal

spaces between the visible and the non-visible and between la parola scritta and la parola non scritta (the written

word and the unwritten wor(l)d, in Calvino’s beautiful phrase). I find the representation of the world less important

than the search, through the camera, for what is not accessible to my eyes, and, through words, to the universe of the

unsaid, which I approximate by pushing the limits of my visual and verbal language.

“I happen to believe in the beauty of simple things. I believe that the most uninteresting thing can be very

interesting.”

Saul Leiter