Marco Iannaccone / Scarlet Lovejoy

Reflected intimacy

This photographic project arises spontaneously, almost for fun, and shows authentic moments of genuine intimacy.

The ability of Marco Iannaccone -Scarlet Lovejoy is to capture through the lens, simple, customary and instinctive movements, filled with natural light, projection of an image that in its sincere naturalness has had an exceptional path. “Nature was stronger and more powerful than an out-of-season storm”. My childhood had begun under the banner of “genetic mystery”. Over time my body was taking on physical characteristics – typically androgynous. As a child I was distressed by the evil of living, I would say almost suffocating because I had to stick, every time, to badly set rules .. My summers spent between courtyard, kitchen and toys strictly male, wounded the casing of my childhood years. The games soon replaced the school and many books the knowledge of which began to give answers. Knowledge became my source of freedom. The study of what I liked gave a sense of freedom, but more and more I isolated myself from classmates. It all seemed surreal and even at school I began to get tired of the rules of the professors: I was listless and I often drew alternative worlds in which to immerse the time completely. Libraries had become my shelters where knowledge let itself be devoured by flickering fingers. The school was for me a further prison where ignorant professors and comrades saw in me a toy on which to pour their frustrations. Those breasts (due to gynecomastia) were the desire of the classmates, for me it was another piece to be counted among the desires to be unveiled. But then the desire to know the universe of darkness exploded. Dismantling piece by piece the pieces of the cage came out, when I was given the opportunity to use the internet, to discover other people similar to me and decided to distance themselves from everything that was imprisonment. I began to learn about the transsexual world almost immediately, I was happy but not totally satisfied. I was still a boy hidden behind tons of clothes. I wanted to get into their clothes to shape my mind to the standards I had not been used to. Soon I began to disguise myself at home and my family continued to do psychological terrorism. But now I was following my interest: getting my identity out of that imprisonment. I secretly went to the sessions of the psychologist regularly and when my brother discovered a furious argument, he made me disappear into nothingness. I started experimenting, being part of a parallel world, venting my frustrations in the creations of sounds from scratch. Surreal sounds and sound textures. It was then that I realized that I could be part of the world only if I had experienced, as I did with the sounds. Wigs, make-up and women’s clothes were the springboard for participating in Pride and soon female clothes were replaced by men. These changes have created over the years, many problems in the family but I have always fought for my rights by arming the courage necessary to continue this tortuous journey in the world called: “Transsexuality”. And that’s how I broke the threads on that spider’s web that held my desires in absolute mystery. ” In this photographic project Marco Iannaccone – Scarlet Lovejoy deals with transexuality by showing the vision of this condition from the perspective of those who experience it in the first person. What emerges from the shots is the absence of artificiality, the extreme naturalness of both the subject and the image itself with an appropriate and appropriate use of photographic technique.

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