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Recent Images from Sardinia
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Murals of Dualchi in Sardinia
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It was a cloud-free late morning when we were driving back from Gavoi to Santu Lussurgiu after the Gavoi Literary Festival in July, where Angela had talked about courage and her most recent book, Luci di Mezzonotte, set in the Park of San Salvi, close to were we used to live in Florence. We made a stop in Dualchi for coffee and found these wonderful murals lining the streets of the villiage. You will also find one other image from Dualchi. Do you recognize anyone?
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All photographs © William Woolf
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There is something about photographs that intrigues me. Most photographs appear to show or describe some aspect of reality at the time the photo was taken...something real, physical, solid. Yet they show only an instance, as seen by someone else, an instant with a certain point of view, of the truth...a story to tell...perhaps. Story? Truth? Photographs are not neutral! They show the world as it is and yet they can also distort the reality of the world. Just what in a photograph can we believe since all photographs can be manipulated? Why do we want to believe a photograph? Do photographs answer questions: What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? And what about beauty, which can be very subjective? Are photographs a search for what we do not know or understand very well?
Internet Installations
I like my photographs seen within a context, so I developed these Internet Installations as a alternate to the online image gallery. View my images as a part of/inside a story/presentation. Join me wandering around Sardinia and Italy. There may not be a definitive answer to the questions posed in the section above, but you can still enjoy the process of looking and wondering.
Wander without a certain course, with no definite object in mind, setting out in an unknown direction. Discover what awaits you around the bend: the expected; the unexpected; the banal; the mysterious; the beautiful; the unsightly; the marvelous.
Clink on the links below to wander over Italy in these three Internet Installations interwoven with photographs, digital animation/video, 360° panoramas/immersive imagery, and storytelling. Each site has many wanderings and each wandering is complete on its own but are complementary to each other.
A DVD of each Internet Installation is available and includes higher resolution images than found on the web site. Most of the photographs you will see are also available for sale as prints. Contact me for more information and prices.
All of my photographs are available in Limited Editions for you to buy. Please email me for more information.
About William Woolf
I have been taking photographs and teaching digital photography courses and workshops in Italy since 2000. I first discovered Santu Lussurgiu and the Montiferru area of Sardinia in 2002, while still living and teaching in Florence, Italy. The Montiferru landscape was such perfect location to photograph that my wife and I bought a home in Santu Lussurgiu so we could return on semester breaks and for all the summer. We moved to Santu Lussurgiu full-time in 2005.I love this landscape, its culture, and its people. I know the land, its nuances, and the effect of seasonal changes on it. My affection and intimate
knowledge of this area ofSardinia makes a difference in the photography workshops I lead here,
including knowing both the secret and the not so secret locations for photographing this unique area. I studied photography and art at The Ohio State University, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
receiving an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Florida State University. I was the Dean of Students of an art institute in Florence, Italy before moving to Sardinia.