El incierto otoño is a project carried out in Valparaíso in Chile in 2022. From a documentary approach to ways of inhabiting a landscape, a personal relationship emerged with the quebradas (canyons, valleys), with the specificities of the neighborhoods (cerros) thanks to the meetings with the inhabitants, where soon friendship and photographic memory replaced the objective coldness of the documentary gaze.
I observed and surveyed the city in search of an understanding of its places and landscapes, little by little, the quebradas revealed themselves to be what for me structured the neighborhoods of the city acting as a sometimes invisible, sometimes strictly marked border. This space is the one that urbanizes last, the place of temporary streams, interstices in the city which contrast by their freshness and their luxuriance with the semi-desert heights. The city is also the space of politics, references to the future referendum and demands dot the landscape.
The title refers to a moment of uncertainty: personal about the photographer’s place in a foreign country and more general where climatic and political concerns interfere in the reading of the images.
Film photographs, digitized, variable dimensions.
Dos Mares international residency in partnership with the Festival Internacional de Fotografía en Valparaíso and with the support of the French Institute, the Instituto Françès Chile and the City of Marseille.
[Gare de la Blancarde, Marseille ©Stefano Marchionini]
