There are images capable of writing pages of history
The history of men and horses. And passion. That passion without which their world, made up of hay, hide, sweat and triumphs could not survive. To work with horses needs love. Undying love, without compromise… extreme love.
The one which helps you forget the freezing foggy dawns, the blinding sun, days under the rain waiting to catch a shot of the perfect moment. This is the price to be paid …because only when purified in the emotion of waiting patience and toil, the icon can rise above from the pure mater. To elevate and go back to its origins, love. This feeling makes Stefano Grasso’s work unique; he is a photographer from Trieste, a hunter of fleeting moments of victory and tenderness, of inestimable strenght and also immense grace, of stamina and freedom. The etherial magy of gestures which only a great and deep sensitivity can freeze without falling into banal manierism of the sensational. An image that becomes a communicative power in the constant search for perfection, seen as a journey and never a point of arrival. “you have to find your own dream so that the way may become easier” Hermann Hess taught us. But he adds ”a perpetual dream does not exist. Every dream gives way to a new dream. You cannot hope to keep any of them”.
For Stefano photography is a bit like this… a philosophy of life which has become a profession and an art. From dream to dream, from shot to shot, without keeping any of them…just a pure magnetic presence. Underlining in pixels and colours the passing of time through its main characters.

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