William Guerrieri

“The use of large format on a subject caught in a very short time, if not instantaneous, characterizes the recent work of Andrea Botto called KA-BOOM. It may seem paradoxical to use a slow medium to describe an instant event as an explosion, but the outcome of this strategy allows us to access a new temporal and spatial dimension of the phenomenon of vision. (…) In this case we can then imagine a kind of theater of the real, which explores the boundary existing between staged photography and the classic documentary practice.”