Long seems to be the time when I could forget who I am; loose myself, and leave back my whole life in the place where I came from.
Was with this spirit that I engage myself in a trip to Turkey.
My purpose there was to enrich myself; forgetting my fears, values or presumptions by portraying a culture in the way it would allow me to experience.
A lot of differences and similarities I found in the very first days of my life there but as time passed by I was no longer able to compare cultures.
I found a country with an immense will to live already the tomorrow; embracing the future as well as everything it’s new and enjoying life as a present moment among each other.
This will to invest in the future became clear in children's behavior. They do have a sense of community by accepting the other. They consciously act like grown citizen, operating in their own system. They do have a hope for a barring of the past by living and wishing a peace extended to other nations.
This was the point of my journey. Portraying a society through these ‘Young Men’ by capturing the way they revealed themselves to me.
They claim for my attention and for the first time I’ve lost control.
I was no longer portraying the way I see them, I was documenting the way they see me.
When I came back and developed my films, I realized I had never guide them and instead, it’s me who is being revealed as their eyes stare at me (making me part of the scene).
Were they the first to notice my presence, or the last to say goodbye?
This confrontation was the launch of a project in a land of young men.
But that is another story… my own! (to be continued)
Bruno Anedda
2005
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