Exhibitions 2025

Io Sento (I FEEL)

Carlo Borlenghi

The sailing photography has been my job and my life for more than 40 years now. Insomuch as even myself right now would find some difficulties in discerning the two things. The trick is not to do it... and so I keep on living my work and working at my life in a series (almost endless now...) of images of sails, shadows, spryes, reflections, regattas and boats.
The will is the same as when, as a child, I watched at the sails from my house on the Como Lake dreaming about a job that could be an exercise of freedom. Because even now I think that the best picture is the one i still have to take, in a path of artistic research that cannot end, having its own purpose in the research itself .
In the meanwhile boats have become ankward and unpleasing I have tried therefore to leave behind the style of Beken of Cowes and Rosenfield, pioneers of the yachting pictures, those times, made of pictures that were like full-figured portrait of the boats, in order to look for that lost elegance in the details. in the shadow of a sail riflected in the water, in the effort of a sailor that on the bow stands against the power of winds and waves, in the ephemeral geometries of a crossing of sails, of lights, of men. A perfect instant that sometimes lasts just the time to see it, sometimes just the time to think it and other times not even that. But if, coming back from the sea, I've captured a little bit of that beauty and I can transmit it to those who were not there, thus IO SENTO (I feel) that, like the pioneers of that time I've given a sense to my own Sailing Photography