My name is Paul Verzone. I'm a Canon Ambassador and today I wanted to talk to
you about two pictures. These two pictures are two pictures which I think
will illustrate my vision of the future - a future which is now complicated to see.
But I have these days a kind of vision. Going back to my
archive, I identified two pictures which I wanted
to talk to you about. The first picture is a picture of some icebergs. A huge
iceberg in the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland.
I did this picture after a commercial campaign in Greenland, and
the feeling I had, looking at this picture, and I had mostly while I was
doing these pictures, is about the power of nature.
It's an incredible force who drive us, who surround us, and we are experiencing in
these hard days what is also the power of nature. This is a kind of a vision
of the future, where nature will be predominant, will be more important.
We will have to take more care of nature. These icebergs are for me the purity
of nature, the beauty of nature, the purity of water, the purity of these raw
elements. It's a vision of the future. Where are we going? We are going to a
future where nature will have a huge, huge impact and power and we will have to
get in a better understanding with nature and a better understanding on all
the challenges we have. Also for the next generations, for our children. It's not
only about us, it's not only about us, so this is a vision of the future - of nature
which surround and we deal with nature in a better way.
Well, I'm sure that this is a kind of clear vision I have. The second
picture is also the force of nature, the beauty of living nature. It's a
horse which is a special breed, Ra's Camargue, which is a peculiar breed in
the Camargue region in southern France.
These horses have a peculiarity. They grow in freedom. They grow in freedom and the
beauty is about freedom and their bond with nature. They're bonding with their
surrounding landscape and in this picture there are
three layers. First layer is the connection with the human and with
nature. They work together. They perform together. They are in perfect harmony.
The second is the beauty of the horse itself. The beauty of the horse, his movements,
his force is frozen, the movement of his hair is a kind of
magical instant. This is also a common type of photography where you
freeze just the particular instant which has a powerful meaning. And the third element
is the environment. The horse and this this horse rider are surrounded by a
natural environment, so this is an another message for the future. Let's get
more close all together with this environment, with this force of nature,
with this living nature of the animals, and let's have a better understanding
and dialogue with all of them in all layers. So that's why I wanted to show
you these pictures, because for me they are two keys of a vision of the future
on how the future will be and we are also we have a chance now.
We really have the chance to look at this unique future and we have the chance to change it.
That's what I wanted to tell you today. Thank you.