The Unlimited Family.pict

I took portrait photos of contemporary families and I aged them, using the pictures in my family album as inspiration and sometime even as models. Since photography was invented, family portrait has always been one of the most common topic. The photographic media in its brief life widened its public and changed its language many times, escaping more and more the bonds of a lifelike representation. Family units evolved in a very in a similar way: they became more fluid and changeable, escaping the bonds of rigid rules. My seemingly ironic research is intended to surprise the audience by a temporal shift, and I also want to suggest two considerations: my subjects ancestors, so look alike them, would have hardly imagined a similar family unit, and since the digital technology fully spread in these last 15 years , it became difficult to even try to guess the age of a photo. The family nowadays is as hard to define as the photos that represent it: you can use photo editing, sepia coloring, and resize the image the very moment the shot is taken . The portrait photos I chose are part of a wider research that starts from Rome to reach other reality, even beyond national borders. The pictures have different sizes, sometimes very small like the original model, and they are all displayed in a white 11x 11x 2 inches frame.