We arrive at the studio of Ferdinando Scianna. “Are you from Sicily?” and he replies, “Yes, but then nobody’s perfect” and his loud laugh promises a successful collaboration.
We get on right from the start and strike up an instant rapport.
The idea comes out of the blue, a story told only in portraits. Of hands.
Hands that, in a series of photographs Ferdinando shows to us, taken by him at different moments and in different places, tell of lost sensations, rediscovered and recognised, as if answering a silent request for new emotions.
Hands that know, that think, that remember.
Hands that represent the principle, hands that create: like those of craftsmen, the only ones skilled enough to add those style details that make some creations unique. Which serve to pass on a “handmade” feel.
Hands that are calm or joyful, worn, lived in, small hands and big, affectionate, hardworking, solitary or linked, creative hands, that stroke, rest, caress, touch and shape, at times leaving a wonderful aura of “unfinished”.
Our Master’s hands work with matter and make the difference that a machine never can.
Dynamic, untiring hands that hoard that incredible capacity for Italian-style “doing good”. Hands that reveal a skill without presumption. Authentic hands.
Without which an extremely long story of elegance and Italian tradition of great quality would no longer exist.
Diego, Dario and Luca Rossetti
We get on right from the start and strike up an instant rapport.
The idea comes out of the blue, a story told only in portraits. Of hands.
Hands that, in a series of photographs Ferdinando shows to us, taken by him at different moments and in different places, tell of lost sensations, rediscovered and recognised, as if answering a silent request for new emotions.
Hands that know, that think, that remember.
Hands that represent the principle, hands that create: like those of craftsmen, the only ones skilled enough to add those style details that make some creations unique. Which serve to pass on a “handmade” feel.
Hands that are calm or joyful, worn, lived in, small hands and big, affectionate, hardworking, solitary or linked, creative hands, that stroke, rest, caress, touch and shape, at times leaving a wonderful aura of “unfinished”.
Our Master’s hands work with matter and make the difference that a machine never can.
Dynamic, untiring hands that hoard that incredible capacity for Italian-style “doing good”. Hands that reveal a skill without presumption. Authentic hands.
Without which an extremely long story of elegance and Italian tradition of great quality would no longer exist.
Diego, Dario and Luca Rossetti
