Swiss Storytelling Photo Grant 9th
LuganoPhotoDays
Celestino Sanna
THE BEAUTY OF BALANCE
It is the story of my intimate life and how photography has been a cathartic tool to accept and then transform my emotional fragility.
In the past years, when thoughts or emotions arrived that consciously or unconsciously recalled a painful past time, most of my psychic energy was aimed at trying to erase those thoughts or emotions, creating a split in me: two parts of me came into conflict, creating a sort of emotional short circuit that led me to perform obsessive or self-destructive actions that distanced me from any relationship or to be alone, often ruining moments of serenity: I didn't deserve to feel good and be happy.
A long work of analysis, and since 2022 the study of photography, combined with the creation of this story has allowed me to convey my psychic energy, towards creativity and in the moments of shooting I often entered a state of flow. This well-being helped me to accept that in order to evolve I first had to fully accept who I was: me with my fears, me with my two separate parts that did not communicate with each other. I had to show myself to others in order to accept myself in my fragility. Now, finally, the two parts of me are talking and walking together in the sunrise of a new conscious life.