On Rai5 Neri Marcorè leads an entire evening dedicated to photography

Tonight, Friday, Nov. 12, a new episode of Art Night, the program by Silvia De Felice and Emanuela Avallone, Massimo Favia, and Alessandro Rossi, directed by Andrea Montemaggiori, and hosted by Neri Marcorè, will be aired on Rai5 starting at 9:15 p.m.

The episode will be entirely dedicated to photography. It starts at 9:15 p.m. with the documentary by Giuseppe Sansonna, written with Giovanna Corsetti and produced by Rai Cultura, entitled A un certo momento. Shots and Life of Uliano Lucas. At a Certain Moment is the recurring intercalary of photographer Uliano Lucas. It sounds like the opening of every sequence, of a life that contains many others. “A certain moment” could also be a definition of photography. Of snapshot. Of fragment of life subtracted from time, and delivered to history. Uliano Lucas is a photographer who negotiates the image, not robs it, as journalist Michele Smargiassi, interviewed in the documentary together with historian Guido Crainz, wrote. He does not steal the shot by stealth, he does not hide his presence as a photographer. He is always eager to sensitively document complex situations to trigger reflections. When the Balkan war explodes in the early 1990s, Lucas sets off for Sarajevo, with the project of collecting images other than the profusion of blood and rubble that is flooding the European media. An insistent aesthetic of spectacular macabre then begins to take root. Strong but ephemeral emotions that do not help to understand the context. And they end up addicting public opinion, not putting the viewer on the line, leaving them spectators. In a lifelong freelance career, Lucas has realized that photography does not change the world, but it can illuminate different perspectives. Reversing preconceptions, sharpening gazes. Leave reflections still open, over time. Throughout his life, he has made pregnant photos, captured with a knowing eye, destined to become splinters of history. They have been, above all, his tool for getting to know the world better, establishing attunements, at every latitude. Tracing that indefinable, utopian thread that links the disarming smiles, of the girls with machine guns, in the savannah, to the exhausted smiles of the miners he met in Belgium, to the alcoholic and inflamed smiles of the free spirits of Bar Jamaica, in Milan, the formative lair of his adolescence. He discovered how much the bewilderment of Ethiopian kids resembled that of laid-off workers and certain faces glimpsed in the rubble of Sarajevo. Everywhere he looked for people who felt like being together. To tell their stories, as he says. To photograph, to be able to look into people’s eyes, peer into their souls, try to understand the complexity behind every life. And allow himself to peer inside, all the way down.

Art Night continues with Elliott Erwitt, Silence Has a Beautiful Sound, directed by Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu. An unedited, intimate and quiet portrait of one of the most celebrated photographers. His iconic shots tell with a unique style made of simplicity, immediacy and also a lot of irony the great events of history and the small incidents of everyday life. And they are at the same time a cross-section of our society. Politicians, presidents, popes, movie stars, but also ordinary people and pets: in his long career Elliott Erwitt has made no distinctions, and he has only ever been attracted by the power of images. A man who loves silence as much as company, endowed with a great irony towards himself and the world, a mild and discreet person despite the success he has achieved and still deeply in love with his work.

Image: Elliott Erwitt, Paris, France, 1989 © Elliott Erwitt/ Magnum Photos

On Rai5 Neri Marcorè leads an entire evening dedicated to photography

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