Back to you

A KALTBLUT exclusive editorial by Giandomenico Veneziani, an Italian photographer specializing in fine-art portraiture and fashion photography. Styling by Claudia Carulli. The model is Malich Cissé. Make up by Irene Carulli.

“The main theme of this photographic project is the environmental one in which we want to focus on avoiding the waste of resources and reducing environmental pollution by looking for renewable energies capable of meeting the needs of the earth’s population. All of this is told by a sequence of images that tell the story of this character from another dimension who arrives on Earth in search of a thousand-year-old source of energy capable of saving his world.”

“I’m on a mission.
My world is dying, everything around me loses life force.
Everything fades away and the battle for survival is turning into hatred and pain.
I travel in search of a solution. I have no destination, there is no point of arrival. I move around trying to capture the essence of rebirth.
There is a gap in front of me, I think it’s a door: through it… suddenly a wave submerges me. I am about to drown and I know that I have to swim hard to emerge from these strange and rushing waters. I close my eyes and when I open them again I find myself floating on a body of water.
I don’t know where I am, this new world is different from mine.
I’m tired, but with the little strength I have left, I try to emerge from this sea. I think my journey cannot end with a surrender. My only purpose is to be able to save my fellow men, my mind is pervaded only by this goal.
I wander through unknown and hostile lands. The heat suffocates me and that big star on the horizon burns my skin. I’m about to give up. My appearance has changed, my shape is no longer the same. I know it’s still me, even if I have a hard time recognizing myself.
At one point, bordering on desperation, I notice something: a light calls me insistently, it scares me, but at the same time it fascinates me.
Slowly I approach.
The voice of the light becomes more and more intense. My body shakes.
Here she is!
That light takes possession of me, it enters by tearing my skin. No pain. I can perceive serenity and harmony. My body has new energy. It pervades me, it runs through my veins, and I feel it.
I have become a new being.
Now I know I can go home. My people need me.
Only by getting lost did I understand how to find my way home and now I bring with me the solution to the drama my people are facing.”

Back to You is a photographic project with a cinematic style oriented towards the science fiction genre. Through a succession of images in sequence, we want to visually tell the story of our main character who, for some reason, finds himself catapulted to Earth, deserted, inhospitable and hostile. He has a very specific purpose, which is to find a source of lost energy, contained in a casket that centuries earlier had been sent to Earth so that the inhabitants could benefit and use it not only as a source of energy, in fact, but as a source of aggregation and kindness towards others. Unfortunately, humans have not been able to use this energy given to them by another distant world. Our protagonist will therefore necessarily have to find her to go home and save his world. At first, he finds himself disoriented, desperate and above all he feels alone. Luckily he manages to find the chest, put on the energy source and finally return home to save his people and who he truly loves.

Photography and Creative director, casting, production and retouching: Giandomenico Veneziani / www.jeanven.com / Instagram: @jeanven.official
Co-Creative direction / Styling: Claudia Carulli / Instagram: @clo_caru
Model: Malich Cissé / Instagram: @malikcisse5
Agency: IMG Models / Instagram: @imgmodels
Agency: Stefano Chiappi Management / Instagram: @stefano_chiappi_management
Make up: Irene Carulli / Instagram: @irene.carulli
Copywriting: Claudia Carulli / Instagram: @clo_caru