The interest in the relationship between space and time is at the heart of his research. Sometimes Carmeni chooses his colors on the basis of literary inputs; the green of Garcia Lorca, or the intuitions of the writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll. Thus, Carmeni is an architect, a researcher, a photographer, and an experimenter. But he is also a cartographer – in the true sense of the word, as testified by his in-depth analyses of geographic maps – when working on a snapshot and selecting what to highlight and what to blur in order to outline what we can call a new “photographic geography”. What matters the most is that the cartographer should always be accompanied by the explorer, and Carmeni likes the idea of turning the observer into a kind of explorer. We are therefore no longer interested in what Carmeni’s photography should to, but in what it can do. And thus we are back to the starting point. “We should never judge a photographer by the type of film used, but only by how he uses it”. Ernst Haas. Exact as a perception.