Italian photographer Paolo Barretta knows as ‘I am winter’ on Instagram, has done some stunning moody and cinematic portraits images. He explained that his first photographs – which are a part of his “I am winter” project – started some years ago with the purpose of coming back feeling things again. He was in a very weird period, where he felt lost; remembering clearly how he tried so hard to do everything he could in order to makes him feel alive again and to know that he had a purpose…
He has done a photography break between the end of his studies and the birth of « I am winter » project. All the things happened for him after changing cities, finding jobs, losing jobs, falling in love, and saying goodbyes…
I was constantly disappointed by not having found my path as photographer. I started thinking that maybe I wasn’t enough good, enough brave, enough strong… I have been living like that for almost two years. And then something changed. I came back home to my family and I started feeling things, all sort of, and I needed with all myself to represent them in some way. I took my camera for the first time in two years. I started taking pictures, I wanted to tell my story. My stories. My photography talks about this : It’s about loneliness and love. It’s about how to be in love with our sadness, our way to feel so small in the world. »
I’ve always been interested to Art since I was a kid. I can even not imagine my life without developing a concept, an idea or a memory through Photography and Music. I like to share my feelings with the world.