Today, we’re featuring a wonderful photo essay from film photographer Antonio Rosato. Scroll below to view the images and read more from Antonio about capturing Greece on Polaroid film…
Analog cameras and films used: Polaroid Now (Find on Amazon) | Polaroid i-Type (Find on Amazon), Polaroid Color 600 Round Frame (Find on Amazon)
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Άγιο κρασί
by Antonio Rosato
One of the things I love most is traveling. Seeing the world as it is, not as others tell us, is, I believe, one of the most rewarding experiences of all. Leaving behind our everyday surroundings and habits allows us to reconnect, to explore what surrounds us and ourselves. It’s an act of openness, of listening, of immersion. Traveling is a bit like pressing the “reset” button.
Unseen panoramas surround us; whether they are cities, natural landscapes, skyscrapers, forests, beaches, or mountains, the curiosity and desire to see remain the same. Every place has its own voice, its own rhythm, its own light.
When we travel, it’s a bit like resuming an uninterrupted conversation with ourselves and the world. Unusual sounds and habits, unexpected scents, unfamiliar colors: everything tells us a story that we find different, yet ultimately similar to those we’ve already heard. And perhaps this is precisely the allure of travel: every place you visit, no matter how far from home, feels a little like home, or becomes so. It’s as if every corner of the world holds a fragment of us, waiting to be rediscovered.
Photography is the medium through which I explore my reality. The reality I live and breathe, translating it into visions, often with weird and psychedelic undertones. Through 35mm and instant film, I try to give shape to stories and concepts that transform objects, bodies, streets, light, and shadow into a visual language capable of revealing what normally remains hidden—or simply how I experience and see things. Analog photography, with its slow shutter speeds and unpredictability, is a perfect match for my way of traveling: attentive, contemplative, open to the unexpected.
For me, photography is not the ultimate goal, but a bridge between the tangible world and interiority, a means of narrating a dream, the projection of a thought. Each shot is not just an image, but a representation of layered emotions, ideas, and states of mind. The subjects—living beings, landscapes, architecture—are not simple visual elements, but fragments of a story or a moment that describes everyday life, sequences of everyday life or simply imagined. Each photo is part of a visual diary that speaks of me, even when I’m not there.
“Άγιο κρασί” recounts my last trip to the Cyclades, the dazzling sun, the blue sea and sky, the warm wind drying the sweat from my brow, the salt spray settling on my skin. Sudden geometries, hidden from the less attentive eye. White walls, blue roofs, dusty cobblestone streets leading toward the sunset. Flavors and scents of home, expressed in a different language. A unique holiday, experienced with intensity and lightness.
This selection of Polaroids captures the personal moments I spent with my husband, lost in the multicolored labyrinth of streets and quirks among the small Greek houses, where we hid from the heat, smoking and drinking Άγιο κρασί. Each shot is a fragment of that complicity, a small shared ritual, an instant captured on film.
The choice of Polaroid Color 600 Round Frame and Polaroid i-Type films allowed me to express, through their spontaneity and color expression, the intimate sensations I felt at the moment of shooting. The colors, the imperfections, the blurring: everything contributes to making each image unique and unrepeatable, just like every journey. Analog photography captures not only what you see, but also what you feel. And on this trip, I “felt” so much.
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