There’re many good reasons to fall in love with Buenos Aires, I found memories. Expectations, made of overheard and over read stories and books, were washed away with the first cold August rains. What was left behind welcomed me like I was waited. It’s true that places are shaped by people living there, but it’s also a fact that urban forms mould inhabitants. That’s Buenos Aires: people and forms. Bizarres, unique. I never looked at cities in that way before, probably I never listened to people in that very way, open minded, listening to them. Each wall, each building assumes the identity of the person who designed it, of those names engraved nearby entrance doors. Memory surfaced, little by little at every following shower. Like the rain also the man felt welcomed within that concrete that could be vital space. The walkways, the calles, the avenidas, a widening that opens like a clearing in the woods. Many trees of many different shapes, and many people that live in those trees. Buenos Aires is a forest blessed by wide and open skies where clouds run fast. It’s an easy but not simple city. It taught me a lot. Thank you. Buenos Aires, the photographic project, sprouts out of fascination from a small seed. Colors went along with black and whites, dialogs of synonyms and antonyms, while sharing one of those never ending coffees so commons in the forest.
Michele Molinari is a visual artist, writer, photographer and journalist. Born in Mantua, Italy. Based in Milan, he works for several years as freelance journalist and photographer for the biggest Italian life style and travel magazines. He lately moves to New York City (1997-2005). From the US he corresponds for the Italian press. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2005-2012) he mainly works on visual art and photography. More of his photos can be seen on EyeEm and Flickr. You can also follow him on Twitter and Instagram as @micmol and @micmol.art
