Automotive Monogamy: Matteo Ferrari

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An idea, born somewhat by chance, becomes a photographic project, with curious and interesting anthropological implications: a sort of ‘monogamy’ – with one’s own car – that some owners maintain for decades, aging along with the mechanical vehicle, which thus, little by little, almost takes on a soul.

The search for subjects occurs primarily in two ways: the author leaves small notes on every old car he sees around the city; he also occasionally stops drivers of these veterans. He also tells everyone he knows about the project, asking them to investigate their families and, in turn, spread the word among relatives and friends.

Then the meeting takes place, to immortalise the passing of time in this particular symbiosis, in fact, between man and machine: in the span of time between ‘yesterday and today’, in fact, the adventures and memories of an entire existence are intertwined.

Automotive Monogamy – aimed at lovers of photography and the human spirit – collects in these 96 pages and 70
photos the stories of the people behind each car, recounting their singular and often ‘epic’ stories both visually – thanks to its shots collected in Italy, Argentina and the United Kingdom – and through the short texts that accompany them.