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Artist Statement for Steve Giovinco
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Eclipse
In my photographs of people and landscapes I strive to capture moments of mystery, lyricism and longing. My recent work focuses on three areas: intimate, emotional relations between couples using myself and others in diaristic images based on my personal life; psychologically charged portraits; and lyrical landscapes. I am particularly interested in darkly lit nightscapes and late afternoon light because they seem to reveal an emotional resonance. I am fascinated by the idea that a photograph can be a simultaneously tangible yet ethereal reflection of the world.
Painting and cinema form the core sources of inspiration, particularly the films of Italian neo-realists Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Ermanno Olmi, Michelangelo Antonioni (especially L’Avventura, La Notte, and L’Eclisse) and French film maker Robert Bresson for their naturalness; the German films of Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for their emotionality.
This is my working method: for portraits/self portraits, my subjects are never really sure of when the picture is being taken so they behave naturally; I participate, enter the picture frame, and slightly re-dramatize scenes of daily life. For night landscapes, it’s often too dark to see so I point the camera intuitively. Using the digital camera’s small viewing screen (rather than its viewfinder) has more in common with moving pictures since the image can be played back immediately, reviewed or discarded. Later, the image is edited—sometimes making dozens of minor color corrections—to create a print that retains great detail but sometimes has a quality that looks curiously un-photographic. The result is an image that appears traditional but is really a reworking of the medium: often I don’t see what is being photographed, but rather, intuit it.
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