Analog Photographs
The Slowness of Light
Photographic exhibition by Decio Barci Carvalho.
From April 5th to 22nd, the Creative Space hosts The Slowness of Light, the first photographic exhibition by Decio Barci Carvalho.
The exhibition presents a selection of large-format 8×10 black and white analog photographs, the result of a slow and deeply artisanal process. The images are born from a practice of observation, silence, and waiting, where each shot is the result of rigorous research and intense emotional involvement.
After a journey that began with digital photography, Decio chose to dedicate himself entirely to analog, finding in large format not just a technique, but a true vision: a way of inhabiting time and light.
The work develops as an intimate dialogue with the landscape, where slowness becomes a tool for knowledge and photography transforms into an almost ritualistic gesture, capable of restoring depth, matter, and presence.
The exhibition will be hosted at the Creative Space, a place born from the energy of love for sharing and beauty, in the heart of the village of Suvereto.
The Artist's Words
My name is Decio Carvalho and I am a landscape photographer. I started with digital cameras more than 15 years ago. After seeing some analog black and white photo exhibitions and several YouTube videos, I decided to switch to analog: first medium format, then large format 4×5, and finally 8×10. The first time I looked at an image under the cloth, on the frosted glass of an 8×10, I fell in love.
I lost my mind, because looking at an image on an 8×10 gives you that idea of infinity: from right to left, diagonally, above, below… so many details. And there I decided: this is my world.
With analog, I create images only in black and white, using an 8×10 large format camera. It's a choice that is not only technical but also philosophical. Large format cameras are slow, really difficult to control, but they produce extraordinary images in terms of detail, depth, and a unique and wonderful tonal range. For me, photography is a unique ritual.
My photography is made of silence, slowness, meditation, long observation of the place, but above all, that combination of dedication, love, and the most sublime emotion that creates beauty.
The analog process is fascinating: from the shot, it's a long and slow journey to the final print in the darkroom.
I like the limits, the imperfection, the non-immediacy of digital, the gratifying wait that increases the emotional value of the image. Analog photography requires attention to light, observational skills, technical knowledge, manual dexterity, and craftsmanship in the darkroom, which is the most creative part of the entire photographic process. I love spending days creating photographs in nature, in silence and atmosphere, and finalizing work sessions in the darkroom is fantastic. The key to the matter: passion is the element that ties everything together.
Creating analog photography is much more than a simple technical act: it is an artistic practice, a ritual that combines dedication, perseverance, time, and passion.
The only indispensable tool I refer to is essentially passion, and you cannot fabricate it: it must come from within you.
