Just another waste of time

The project was born as an analysis of the elderly's approach to social networks and how it differs from the digital native generation.

The first objective of my research was to find a point of connection between social era and the first half of the last century, a point that I found in the black and white vintage images photographed by the elderly and published on Facebook.

Starting from these images, I then searched for thematically similar images, especially on Instagram using specific hashtags.

I immediately began to notice an evident similarity in poses and attitudes as if in the last century nothing had actually changed in the relationship between man and camera.

I therefore decided to continue my research by analyzing more in detail,

fragmenting all the images collected, cataloguing all these fragments by color and theme,

and then reassembling them.

The image obtained is perfectly legible albeit chaotic: it shows a woman by the sea, a woman outside of time, where every part of her, even if coming from different eras, manages to dialogue with the adjacent one and the same is true for the landscape that surrounds it.

My research ends here, without an apparent answer, but with a big question:

has anything really changed in all these years or was it just another waste of time?