Biography
Roberto Todde, stage name Inte Jag
was born in 1968 in San Giovanni Suèrgiu, Sardinia, where he lives and works.
His passion for photography starts in 1990 while at university. At the same time he devotes himself to literature and neuroscience; in particular, he becomes fond of gothic noir which he starts exploring thanks to authors such as Hammett, Chandler, Cain, Baudelaire, Burroughs, Poe, Lovecraft, whose works will accompany his formation both as a man and photographer. Attracted by the world of fashion, in 1999 he enrolls at John Kaverdash’s Academy of Photography in Milan. This academic experience strengthens his inborn inclination towards photography and technical experimentation, accompanying him in his compositive search and free creative expression.
He works as a freelance photographer for twenty years acquiring a number of private and public customers.
While for other photographers their technical skill derives from professional and commercial experiences, for Roberto Todde, a reserved and introspective person, the communicative approach has always been fundamental for any expressive and thematic choice.
At some point, his work changes drastically when he discovers Joel Peter Witkin’s works; for him, this photographer represents a real icon especially for the evocative strength of his shots. For Roberto Todde, the need to search – and find – the deep meaning of life and its perceptions means will of renewal; it means expressing, through his own painful life experience, the evolution of the contemporary human comedy.
The breakthrough occurs in 2013 with the project “Ecce Homo-The Theater of pain”, deeply influenced by Witkin’s macabre and visionary works. A work of protest and condemnation against the infringement of human rights that, absorbing him in composition and conceptual studies, will converge in a publication with the same title,ranked among the top 100 in the Leica Award 2013. In the same year, due also to a tragic personal event, he decides to carry out a new stylistic search directed to the exploration of the deepest aspects of the subconscious.
After 16 months work, he gives birth to the project “Deeper-On my own life", where he displays all his technical and creative abilities revisiting them in a modern version in order to get an innovative, original and empathetic result. Being fascinated by the rules regulating the world and the mystery they are shrouded in, Roberto Todde has taken a great interest in searching the inner world. By using photography as an odd medium, he wanted to experiment a new form of hallucination which is deceptive on a time level but true to sensory perceptions.
Such elements are based on a scrupulous technical and communicative exploration between past and present, in a timeless dimension where the emotional and perceptive spheres become anthropomorphic archetypes; symbol of a Paradise lost that has been forgotten, debunked and outraged by social evils, marginalization and technological civilization.
