I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
~Maya Angelou
Contemporary photography focuses more and more often (and with uneven results) on private life, family, intimacy. A great part of this line of research draws from the past, investigates origins, dwells on parents and grandparents. It is maybe less common for siblings to be investigated about, even if, as we happen to read in psychology texts, “they create the group inside a family” or “provide the first available model for a peer-to-peer relationship”.
Brothers and sisters represent mainly our present, they always have, and we expect them to be part of the future, much more than other members of the family.
We all have brothers and sisters, we were all born in the seventies. We decided to include them in our photography.
This task, which initially seemed quick and simple, ended up being difficult and potentially endless.
Them being completely different, or so close and similar to confound us, we have the feeling we know them by heart and at the same time we’re at loss with words when it comes to describing them.
We manage through metaphors, e-mails extracts, objects, places, or through their children, who look so much like them.
It’s a tale of affinities and differences.
“Siblings” has been part of Atlante.it at SI Fest #23 in Savignano
