In search of lost time
What you do for pleasure, science calls it wellbeing. Sometimes, in the middle of an ordinary afternoon, apparently like all the others, something happens that wasn’t on your agenda. It’s not an appointment, it’s nothing you had planned. It’s a conversation that starts casually, while your photographs scroll across a monitor and, just as casually, you find yourself talking about light, colours and what it really means to freeze a moment. A few days ago it happened with Olimpia. Olimpia Pino is a painter, she has always been, with several exhibitions to her name, a university professor in General Psychology and the author of over a hundred scientific papers on cognitive rehabilitation, neuroscience and verbal development. And also a passionate photographer. She’s not the kind of person who looks at a photograph and says “lovely” out of politeness. She observes. And I, while talking to her about what I look for every time I press the shutter button, realised I was getting emotional....
