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I have imagined the mountain as a thoroughbred.
I have imagined the mountain as a thoroughbred.
A racehorse that has galloped all day.
I have visited it by night, while it was resting,
When the cries and cracks of the whips of thousands of jockeys are now quiet and the patient stable boy is rubbing down its back.
He leaves the regular marks of the large comb over the entire coat, follows its forms, tidies its mane.
It’s the night between 20 and 21 March, the perigee moon makes the white of the crotch brighter and draws the eyes to the afterglow of the day just passed.
A soft breeze soothes the pains, the cold helps with toning, there is just the sound of the curry comb running through the muscular masses.
After hours of painstaking labour the mountain rests alone with itself, ready for the first ride of the new morn.
Francesco de Luca, born in 1973, graduated in Letters from the University of Urbino, with a thesis entitled “Il corpo e la fotografia” (“The body and photography”). He started engaging with photography very early on, following in the steps of his father who works as a photographer, and becoming very involved with developing and printing processes. He carried out photographic reportage in Ecuador in 2004, in Nicaragua in 2006 and in Bosnia Herzegovina in 2008 and in 2010 for various humanitarian organisations. With Heads Collective he has completed photography projects and campaigns for ZeroRH+, Alce Nero, Autostrade per l'Italia, ACTV, Medici con L'Africa Cuamm, Avis, Fondazione Claudio Buziol. Some of his work has been published on Kult, The End Magazine, Riders.
