What drives me to take photography is the urgent and primary need to give voice to my feelings and states of mind which, otherwise, would not find a way to be expressed. What moves me is the aim to give shape to my demons, to my concerns, to my tensions, not through words, but through images.
By following this polar star, photography should not seek the evidence of reality or stereotypically reproduce what appears on the surface. But aspire to go beyond the conventional duplication of a landscape and/or a face. It must focus its gaze on the essence of things. It is not simple reproduction. But it is instead the attempt to grasp, translate, transmit what is irreproducible or unknown to the rational side of our brain. Photography is the art of telling with light what mysterious and intimate and secretly deep is enclosed in the shadows. Photography is, then, the art of telling a feeling, an emotion, a sensation.
Black and white analog photography is my favourite one, because it allows me the highest level of expression. I find this language very poetic, elegant, essential and, definitively, there is something magical and evocative and not completely “reacheable” in it that still continues to fascinate me.
But it is also a congenial means of expression, because, to me, is also a moment of research, of contemplation and awareness. Photography is an introspective experience, an opportunity for comparison with the most intimate and secret and contrasting sides of my personality. From this point of view, photography, as psychotherapeutic process, reveals its great importance.
Graduate in economics, Roberto De Mitri is a businessman and he lives in Lecce (South Italy). He overcomes the 2014 "Black & White Spider Awards" in the category "Fine art - Amateur" with the photo "de Silence of Sand". In 2015, he gets the second place in Fine Art, abstract, with the series "Nigredo" at International Photography Awards. In 2016, he wins the 11th edition of the Black and White Spider Awards, abstract, with "De Fall", winning the title of "Honor of Distinction" in Photographer of the Year.
In 2018, he gets the first place in Fine Art, abstract, with the series "Solaris" at International Photography Awards.
One of his photos is "Juror's Pick" at Lensculture's 2020 Black & White Photography Awards. And he is a finalist at the 2021 Black & White Photography Awards.
Different and numerous are the publications in specialized magazines: Schwarzweiss, Black and White Magazine, Dodho, Fine Art Photo Magazine, B&W Minimalism, Shots, The Analogue Street Collective, Fotobook, Black+White Photography.
