"The Covid years were terrible for photographers. But they allowed some to take a break from their frantic races to find and take on increasingly poorly paid orders. Emanuele Scorcelletti is part of this movement which immersed itself, during this period of uncertainty, in very personal research work. He left for Marche, this region of Italy facing the Adriatic, the family cradle. It is in the heart of the stronghold of Mario Giacomelli, Giuseppe Cavalli and the so-called Misa gang that Emanuele focused on a work of memory and desire." The Eye of Photography "Far from the red carpets he long walked to capture the stars from around the world, the photographer remembers the region of his youth, quiet and beautiful: Le Marche. In the heart of Italy, between the Apennines and the Adriatic, its geographical center. (...) Between melancholic memory and an evanescent vision of a motherland where the artist reinvents himself." Le Figaro Voyages, by Jeanne Propeck The gaze of Emanuele Scorcelletti, known for capturing the human side of film and fashion stars, has evolved, and this is the subtlety of this book, as if this visual introspection were going to delve into a memory that is ever more distant, ever more imprecise, ever more expressionistic, bordering on the unreal. With his new work, Elegia Fantastica, memories gradually blur and Scorcelletti slowly frees himself from the traditional technical rules of photography, such as those of exposure time or framing, to obtain light-bleached portraits or hyper-contrasting black and white landscapes. In this evanescent journey and this nostalgic timelessness, ghostly and light forms evolve in cities frozen by the years, in sacred places preserved by a thousand-year-old faith, in a rural world spared by the frenzy of modernism. Images in movement that reveal a dreamlike work as an ode to eternal Italy, as a poem whispered to the wounds of life in which floats a certain perfume of innocence. Cyril Drouhet, Extract from the preface
