Ordinary people..... With extraordinary faces which tell stories
By Paolo Pizzimenti
21 Oct 2007
People have the power, the power to dream to rule, the power to wrestle the world from fools....
Each time I see a face of an ordinary person the refrain of Patty Smith's hit song starts to run all around my mind.
People have the power, yes people have the power and the power is written on their faces. "Ordinary" peole with extraordinary faces which tells stories; stories of their lifes lived in silence or lived in the crowd, people who have got a dream, people who wanted to be actor, singer, painter or just simple people with a great heart.
Each time my eyes meet the eyes of ordinary people I start to learn of their life, I read of their the past, the present and maybe the future
I observe each expressive wrinkles and story starts by itself.
A younger painter, an old french man who wanted to be a "chansonnier", a grandmother selling fish at fishmarket and smiled at you with generosity, an old boatman who wanted to be a Captain on a big oceangoing vessel, but lived a life just rowing in the small village canal and who shakes your hands by his arthritics affected hands but still strong, a lady with passion for the painting who maybe will never be famous but with a joyful smile...and other millions faces of ordinary people who lives their lifes in this ordinary wonderful world...
