To define my archeological and art photography I prefer to use th words reserved to me by the professor Rocco Pititto.The looks of Jommelli recreate a dreamlike world, where dreams find their material abode and new modes of existence appear with other resonances and other emotional tones. They are objects of the material world, which are invested and solicited almost forcefully by the photographer's gaze, they come out of arrogance from the oblivion of time, in which they had been kidn ...
My conceptual view
Reality is not always as it appears to us. My photographic work is based on representing through the photos the thin line that divides reality as it appears to us, from what lies behind it. Reality becomes a dream, imagination, an own idea, a personal experience. My photography wants to be the reality that hides an illusory and metaphysical aspect of existence. But reality still remains reality. The visual lesson of Reneé Magritte remains the starting point of my photographic research ...
My landscape view
Probably everyone knows that the landscape is crucial for our well-being: we look for places whose view gives the sense of harmony, vivacity or singularity (what is harmonious is not hostile, what is lively is cheerful, what is singular prefigure new and therefore interesting things); instead we flee the places whose view gives the sense of disorder, of flatness, of predictability. A balanced and orderly landscape produces calm, psychic security and aesthetic enjoyment; a disordered la ...
My reportage view
The main aspect of my professional research is that I have never been interested in a complacent and indulgent photography, but I am passionate about issues that involve me emotionally. Photography before being made with eyes and lights, has to be immaginated with the heart. I am interested in the ancient world and the surreal dimension of the world around me. Magritte paintings inspire me also a lot, in those artworks there is no man but everything speaks of his despair and his abando ...