Mimmo Jodice

“You will hardly see me around with a camera. I don't go out in the morning to find beautiful images, suggestions. My work is born from a reflection, it is born from a project. A project that starts from my considerations as a man even before as a photographer".

Experimentation has been the constant in all his work, wherever he has focused his attention. In the Sixties he devoted himself to investigating the problems of current social affairs, especially Neapolitan, from healthcare, to prisons, to mental hospitals, to drugs, to marginalization in the outskirts of the city. In the Seventies his gaze shifted to the landscape and urban environment of many Italian and European cities, but still and above all of Naples, experienced in a metaphysical key. He then became interested in archaeology, he addressed the themes of memory and origins and the persistence of the past in the present, he interpreted everyday objects with a photography that is increasingly anti-documentary and increasingly free from reality, increasingly visionary and meditative in the creation of a reality beyond reality.