The Authentic Italy
Streets of Loano (Canon P/Ilford Delta 400) We live in a world of social media, where life can be presented however one wishes. Digital technology and AI has recently taken things to the next level; we are bombarded with entirely fictitious places and people that don't exist in the 'real' World. So where is the authentic? Where is the genuine? I found it in Italy. For me, something becomes painfully inauthentic when it is a performance. This is why I have no desire to go to Epcot in Walt Disney World (actually, anywhere in Disney World sounds like a nightmare to me). Epcot presents an interactive performance and says to you, "This is what life is like in Italy". But, if you have never been to Italy, how would you really know? You could look at pictures online I suppose, but that doesn't tell you what life in that place is really like. Fiat 500 in Florence (Canon F-1/Ilford HP5) I have been to Italy twice traveling through Lombardy, Tuscany, Vene...