The last time, that of the elderly, of waiting and absence, of others and of themselves, is the one immortalized in shots by Nicola Tassone In the photographic project “Last Time”on display on June 21st – at 6.30 pm – at the Reggiosud Club. 24 shots relating to the 24 hours spent by Nicola visiting a home for the elderly. That of Nicola Tassone, an architect and photographer from Reggio Calabria, is a three-year work in which personal history and a delicate approach to old age are intertwined, a sign of great sensitivity towards the so-called “no longer sufficient”.
Nicola Tassone begins to frequent the nursing home from his father’s hospitalization and observe the life in the balance, the suffering, but at the same time the “wealth” that can be felt in the structure. Day after day, Tassone returns to the elderly and the need grows in him to tell of an often forgotten humanity, to give voice to those silent stories and freeze, in an image, their suspended time.
“The only thing I had with me was a phone – he says – and that’s how I started shooting. Not wanting to affect their modus vivendi, I tried not to be invasive by ‘stealing’ shots of their daily life”. Tassone does not hide the “horror” of old age. Men and women bedridden, supported by a walker or in a wheelchair, reveal traces of their fragility and suffering in the furrows of their faces. But in that time, the last, we can still find that yearning for hope contained in hugs and smiles to our loved ones.
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