PHOTOS HAPPEN!
An interview with KALTLBUT MAGAZINE
Today the German art fashion media magazine KALTBLUT released an interview with yours truly.
The feature is accompanied by a… bizarre selection of my works, both videos and photos - and by bizarre I mean unusual, evident result of a search in my streams on Flickr and Vimeo that pleased me a huge lot since it did not stop to the most recent output but involved older stuff as well, including some of my favourite past photos.
The magazine is packed with a stunning and strong choice of imagery and artists on every field, and I am truly happy and pleased to be featured on their pages.
Thanks Emma E.K. Jones for this!
The photo above is titled “the Sunday ride” (you can see it and buy prints on 500px)
Chief Editor for webmagazine Clic-hé
It just became official: I am the new Chief Editor of the Events area for the Italian online photography magazine Clic-hé.
I am honoured, terribly flattered, scared and happy and will try to do my best to contribute to the magazine.
Interviews!
Lately I have been almost too busy trying to follow too many things at the same time: a couple of invitations for exhibiting my photographs, the Lumix contest, The International iPhoneography Show in New York, the new short movie I started shooting 2 days ago with directing partner Malvenuti, the book I am preparing, everyday work at the usual office, some bits of personal life and so on… while things seem to keep happening around me.
There are two new interviews that were published during the weekend, and here they are for you to enjoy reading:
- PHOTOS HAPPEN! an interview with HONK! Magazine where I also discuss the impact that photography has had in my life;
- the latest EYEEM Spotlight, titled “Style is everything” – An Interview With Ale di Gangi where the interviewer and the interviewed had a lot of fun doing a video interview and discussed… lots of things!
I would like to thank all those interesting people who are showing interest in my works - I am grateful for all this!
Out today on Clic.hé photography webmagazine a new reportage titled “Casual Eaters” on food and its relation to humans… as I see it.
All photos were taken using Instagram.
Here is the translation for the text I wrote for the Clic.hé page:
Food and the time we dedicate to its consumption represent the highest expression of human cohesion; as a matter of fact this begins in the family, where a meal is a traditionally aggregating moment whose social function we sometimes don’t seem too aware of.
There aren’t many cases where we like to eat a meal on our own, and seldom food is truly appreciated only when the in the company of others. This is especially true for us Italians.
I had the opportunity to think this over in a time when one after the other I lost all my usual meal companions - mostly colleagues but also friends - finally finding myself having lunches on my own.
I then found myself needing to fill such emptied social pauses and I turned them into moments where I was observing the rituals of unknown neighbors sitting at the tables next to mine, improvising them as my temporary fellows in the feeding ritual. Sometimes I was able to involve other friends or colleagues with whom new bonds of ritual sharing were born.
I shot some of these moments in a spontaneous way, using means that are themselves expressions of contemporary social interaction: my iPhone and the Instagram app.
Mostly I took candid shots and subjects were not aware of being pictured. Other times I involved my subjects explicitly, making them in different degrees unwitting accomplices of the thinking process that was behind the photo I was taking.
Food was always the comprimary in the act of consumption, on the same level with the people portrayed, who never appear in their entirety or as fully recognisable.
Finally, reviewing the pictures as a whole, it seemed to me as if I had been somehow recreating certain moments in the film “La grande bouffe” by Marco Ferreri (1973), even though I had nothing to share with the characters and the desperation portrayed in the film…
HOMO on Clich.hé magazine
Issue 4 of the photography magazine CLIC.HÈ is out now and features a gallery of 11 shots taken from the Crisco nights galleries + a short intro I wrote for the occasion.
Here is the translation for the intro:
Straight and (h)omo can merge in variations and nuances that are the only true meaning of sexuality. Variations that have been always denied because culturally challenging in the context of reproductive needs, are undeniable in the human need of emotional and tangible fun. The photos in this series are taken from a [much larger] series I made in 6 months of 2009 at the florentine Crisco club; the club was just reopening after a change of management and philosophy of fruition and the evenings of those first two seasons showed the liberating effect on a largely new and curious clientele, now made if people that could finally mingle and have fun together leaving a few taboos out of the door. Heterosexuality and homosexuality were superimposed and shooting these photos was primarily a [prolonged] fun moment especially for those who were portrayed. Leafing through these pictures one gets the impression that the interchangeability given by pleasure is the only thing that matters, breaking down differences intrinsic in words like “homosexual” and “heterosexual”. [Everything here goes back to] the couple, the group, and also the ostentation and the loneliness.
The good memories of when we were children
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