The project Pathos was carried out during 15 years in 5 Latin American countries (Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador). About 80% in analog, the rest in digital. “Pathos” became a book in May 2019.
The photographs are fragments of an intimate and personal journey and represent the vision of the author in the face of the ambiguity and contrasts of the Latin American continent.

This view, however, is strongly influenced by his professional background: active for over 20 years as a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, he has worked in many countries in situations of war or armed conflict, confronting daily with violence, human cruelty and its consequences. The images were taken during his spare time, his holidays and therefore away from the areas where he worked. However, the portfolio somehow mirrors the duality Bene / Evil that the war exasperates without mercy and which he has witnessed very closely.

The photographic process has become in practice a sort of “rediscovery” of the world through a critical lens: one that allows us to see everywhere and in anyone (often in a metaphorical form) the coexistence of Good / Evil, but without pessimisms or judgments of a moral nature, but simply as a matter of fact.

He looked for violence where there would seem to be only peace, and poetry where there should only be pain.
Without any journalistic or documentary objective, he limited himself to meeting people, animals, and the environment, always looking for an empathic contact with the subjects of his photos. He simply photographed what caught his attention. No image has been staged, they are just spontaneous snapshots, although sometimes results of long waits or conversations.

“Completing Pathos was a very important emotional process for me, a way of looking back to become aware and come to terms with my experience of closeness with the dark side of man but also with his lights. This book is about a journey. Not only physical but also spiritual, made of experiences and feelings. Carried out over many years and through hundred places, and yet timeless and motionless. A deep dive into the human soul.
Photography has been for me like a bridge, a way to wordlessly talk to people, communicating only through shared feelings and common sensations.
I have been walking a long way, listening to the voices and the emotions welcoming my footsteps … the ambiguous yet unforgettable beauty of fallen angels, while smiling devils were winking at me from behind a corner … a mirror sending back to me reflections of tenderness and compassion, sadness and passion, desolation and joy.
So many shadows and so many sun rays.
Pathos has been my companion all along my photographic journey”. (Giorgio Negro)