BWP26 settembre 2026
02

Eye Catch

di Simone Pompei

Walking is a way of looking for things I haven't lost.

I don't look for stories, and I don't care about beauty or ugliness. Those are conscious filters. Instead, I let my feet move until the mind goes quiet. That is when the street starts talking to the subconscious.

It is always something small. A specific angle of light hitting a concrete wall, the strange weight of a stranger’s coat, or a sudden, unexplained silence between two noises. It is not about what is happening, but how a shape or a gesture cuts through the air. You don't process it with logic; it just hits a nerve. A brief, quiet friction beneath the skin.

My finger presses the shutter before my brain understands why.

Photography, for me, is just a delayed reaction. It is the act of collecting physical evidence of an instinct. We take pictures not to remember what was there, but to figure out what we were looking for in ourselves.

The truth is, we are constantly surrounded by an invisible dialogue. The city is a dense grid of geometric accidents, overlapping shadows, and quiet objects that exist without a name. They don’t scream for attention, yet they wake something up inside us. They trigger an internal frequency before our eyes even have time to focus. Photographing them is not about creating art; it is an act of acknowledgment. It is our way of saying: I notice you. By pressing the shutter, we rescue these fleeting shapes from the background noise of existence, turning a brief, subconscious puncture into something permanent. We photograph to prove that we were awake.

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