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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS: CHARLES PÉTILLON Cover: Giuseppe La Spada - www.giuseppelaspada.com
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INTRO
t: Emanuele Cucuzza
The roles of communication and the visual artist This is my first editorial after a long time. Usually, I prefer to give centre stage first of all to the people we tell you about and then to Image in Progress, which can speak for itself, thanks to its strengths, work, results and contents. Obviously, every issue marks the evolution of the entire project and, maybe, of my view of the sector. So, it is thrilling to discover where this road is leading me and see the proper perception of all those readers who identify details and leitmotivs in the composition and selections of every issue. I didn’t think that certain aspects could be really noticed, and noticed they were‌ sometimes even before I did. This synergy is both comforting and an honour but is also a responsibility and I want to thank all those readers who follow this magazine so carefully, giving in return an interpretation that has just materialized before my eyes. 2 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
Visual communication is becoming progressively central and the use that is made of it is really upsetting in too many cases. Maybe out of a misguided sense of romanticism or cynicism, or simply out of concern for discreteness or respect for the readers, I do not wish to talk about certain issues in a context that would be inappropriate. However, I wonder what responsibility visual art professionals and artists should take. I believe this is emphasized clearly in this issue, especially in certain interviews‌ Whatever the gift each of us is given, it is the use that is made of it that defines more than any talent.
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PHOTOGRAPHY CONTESTS
t: Emanuele Cucuzza
PhotogrVphy Magazine and Grant
a new media-partnership you should definitely follow…
Born 1986 in Elblag, Poland, Maciej Leszczynski currently lives and works in Gdansk on the Baltic coast. Holder of university degrees in molecular biology, botany and project management. Managing editor in the PhotogrVphy Magazine and co-founder of the annual PhotogVphy Grant. He’s also self taught photographer, specializing mainly in architectural and landscape photography. “Run since 2015, PhotogrVphy Magazine and Grant are non-profit initiatives started with idea of creating a context for creative initiatives and a promotion of new trends in photography. PhotogrVphy Magazine focuses mostly on promotion of interesting projects submitted by emerging photographers from around the world, while annual Grant awards $1000 annually to the applicant with the most inspirational photographic concept to support visual projects by the artist. Each edition of this competition has different subjects. In the 2017 edition, you can submit images from the following categories: Architecture, Conceptual, Nature, Photojournalism and Culture. The contest is free to enter.” 14 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
How come your magazine project an the contest? “When we have started PhotogrVphy Magazine with a group of friends, photography enthusiasts just like me, we were just thinking about creating a unique place where we could share our inspirations and interesting projects to the worldwide audience. With an increasing popularity of the magazine, we were able to start the Grant with cash prize to annually selected artist. We strive to inspire participants to improve their photographic skills and develop their vision. There is only one Grand Prize winner, but looking on extremely high level of submitted project, we have decided to publish a whole gallery of nominees. With a great help from our media partners and international jury members, artists have the opportunity to gain worldwide exposure, push their careers forward and be recognized by art galleries, curators, media, and cultural institutions from all over the world.” What are the results so far? “As I previously mentioned we were positively surprised how popular the first edition became. Among over 3000 participants about 250 entries were selected as nominees. The level of submitted works was extremely high so the jury had a tough choice but finally a young photographer from United States, Drew Nikonowicz (born in St. Louis, 1993) was selected to be Grand Prize Winner with his project “This World and Others Like It”. “This World and Others Like It” investigates the role of the 21st century explorer by combining computer modeling with analogue photographic processes. Drawing upon the language of 19th Century survey images, Drew questions their relationship with current methods of record making. Also Patryk Karbowski from Poland, Aleksey Kondratyev from Kyrgyzstan, Matt Hamon from United States and Elena Anosova from Russian Federation were distinguished as winners of their categories.” How did you develop your interest in photography? “My photographic passion started during my studies on university. I was searching for some activity besides my scientific interest and work. Photography comes naturally with documenting
From the winning series, titled ‘This World and Others Like It” 01_Grand Prize Winner - Drew Nikonowicz - www.nikonowicz.com
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American photographer Drew Nikonowicz (born 1993) has been announced as the overall winner of this year’s Photogrvphy Grant and granted $1000 prize money to support his visual projects. His winning series, titled ‘This World and Others Like It” investigates the role of the 21st century explorer by combining computer modeling with analogue photographic processes. Additionally, 4 photographers were featured as category winners: Patryk Karbowski (Poland) in City category, Aleksey Kondratyev (Kyrgyzstan) in Outdoor category, Matt Hamon (United States) in People category, and Elena Anosova (Russia) in Story category. The 2016 Photogrvphy Grant received 3132 submissions from which 274 were awarded with Honorable Mention. Winning series were selected by panel of international judges, including: Hugh Merrell, Jon Feinstein, Michael Pritchard, David Bram, Sarah Krueger, Aram Kim, Fosi Vegue, Barry W Hughes, Emanuele Cucuzza Image in Progress, Robyn Lange, Jurriaan Van Kranendonk, Christina Force, Gianpaolo Arena, John Kenney, Niccolò Fano, Daria Bonera, Steve Bisson, Rohit Vohra, Jorrit R Dijkstra, Alison Zavos and Martin Stavars.
my travels and stays with me to this day. Through this years I have discovered many great artists who inspired my previous and current work: Michael Kenna, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joel Sternfeld, Andreas Gursky, Peter Bialobrzeski, Nadav Kander, just to mention a few. Now I’m taking photos for nearly 10 years, but I’m thinking that this is just a beginning of my journey.” What are your working on? What are your next projects? “With my growing involvement in PhotogVphy Magazine and Grant I’m planning to work some more on their promotion to grow it bigger and more visible. We have just started a second edition of Grant, it is open for submissions, the final deadline is August 31st, 2017.
Regarding my photographic works I’ve just finished a project documenting architectural environment in the city of Chongqing, China. With the population of 32 million it is the most populous and probably fastest growing Chinese municipality. It is a place of constant development and transformation. My next project will be run in Poland, at this stage I’m collecting materials, background and doing some research. It will be big documentary work and I will be able to tell you more details when it starts this spring.” www.photogrvphy.com www.grant.photogrvphy.com www.maciejleszczynski.com IMAGEINPROGRESS.com 15
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t: Emanuele Cucuzza
Call for entries of the International Contest URBAN Photo Awards 2017 has started!
Event planner, photo critic and event manager, Angelo Cucchetto lives in Milan. He worked in the 80s and 90s as photographer’s agent (fashion and advertising) managing the work of great Italian and foreigner professionals, with two owned agencies (Multi Ltd and Close up srl). In 1999, impressed by the potential of the web has opened Starring, web agency focused on the development of business related to photography Web, immediately launching the site Photographers.it, which quickly 16 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
became the leading Italian portal dedicated to the world of photography. Over the past 15 years it has established a network of websites dedicated to photography of the most popular in Italy, and established partnerships with several Italian reality of the photographic world, arriving between 2010 and 2014 to manage a festival called Photographers Days. As a web agency, Starring has created dozens of sites to photographers and facilities, including the Association of Professional Photographers Tau Visual Italian sites. He’s present in the list of the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture as expert for the area Computers. He collaborated for eight years with the exhibition Confini of which Photographers.it annually launches the selection announcement. He launched and manages two collective Photo projects, Italian Street Photography and Shoot Food. He edited the communication part for four years of Photofestival Milan. He taught for four years in a marketing course Photography at the IED in Milan. He taught for five years in a marketing course Italian Photography Institute of Photography in Milan. He has held seminars and lectures on Marketing for the photography industry in many initiatives in the sector (Photoshow, Photofestival Milan, Turin Photo Festival). www.urbanphotoawards.com www.star-ring.it www.photographers.it www.italianstreetphotography www.confini.eu www.shootfood.it
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Call for entries of your International Contest URBAN Photo Awards 2017 has started, what are the numbers of past editions? “Urban sees every year thousand of participating pictures and hundreds of photographers from all over the world. It is an always growing international contest, one of the very few that goes “over the boundaries” of Internet offering to photographers real visibility through dozens of international photo exhibitions. Only in 2016 URBAN saw more then 3.500 pictures uploaded, by more then 900 participants, focalized mostly in Europe, USA and Eastern Countries (India especially), and realized 32 exhibitions displaying about 700 pictures. The Total price value was more then 4.000 euro. Behind it all, there is always the pursue of enhancement of photographic talent and quality.” What is the subject of the Contest this year? “Urban 2017 is dedicated to Urban Photography. The aim is to explore the contemporary through all forms of photography based in the urban fabric. The star of the show: the City. Daily life in the city and in small villages, artistic views, architectural geometries, the fragments of colour that break the city greyness. The thematic areas are seven: Street Photography, the many aspects of the urban fabric and the lives that inhabit it; Architecture, buildings, streets, urban geometries; Social City, places, events and gatherings in the City; Urban Art, the relationship between people and art in the City; Transport, different style of mobility in the city; Green Life, green areas, places, projects and sustainable lives and the last one Visions, that is a new area thought as a laboratory of artistic and experimental photos outside previous thematic
areas (the main theme is always Urban Life). In this case the post-production is allowed. Moreover there is a section for portfolios and projects, where each participant can submit a series of images oriented to show his or her idea through photographs.” Who can participate and how? “Urban looks for talent and quality both among professional and amateur photographers, offering them an international stage from which to get noticed.” Are there any fees to pay for participation? “For Themed Photos the participation costs € 10 as entry fee for the first picture; further photos may be entered at a cost of € 5 per photo. For Stories & Portfolios, the participation costs € 10 as entry fee for portfolio, regardless of the number of photos that make up the portfolio (min 3 photos, no more than 12). Each participant can submit a maximum of 5 portfolios.” How will winners be selected? “The presented works will be selected by dotART and judged in a final manner by a prestigious international Jury. Finalists will be published on the website in alphabetical order, without ranking at the end of July 2017. The absolute winner of Urban 2017 will be personally chosen by Jury President Maurizio Galimberti (see interview on page 57 of Image in Progress 2, editor’s note) and he will be awarded personally by him during the award ceremony during the International Photo Festival Trieste Photo Days at the end of October in Trieste, (IT). Final ranking will be published on URBAN website and Facebook page.” What are the prizes and what is the total amount? “First prize for the contest winner will be of 1.000 euro plus accommodation in Trieste for IMAGEINPROGRESS.com 17
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the winner. The other prizes will be 24 along with 16 Honourable Mentions for a total prize of more then 3.000 euros, and the chance to be chosen for Urban 2017 Summer Exhibitions around Europe.” Why to apply? Why to partecipate? What is the visibility of winning photographs? “The highest placing works will be published on the competition’s website and will be displayed in a collective exhibit on October/November 2017 in Trieste during Trieste Photo Days 2017 festival together with publication of the winners on our media partners world wide Magazines. Some of the submitted photos may in addition be selected for exhibits in Italy and abroad.” Among partners, other than Image in Progress, I can see many international names... Even if it is too soon, how will you manage the Winner’s Exhibition and the Awards Ceremony? “From April we will be working on details about TPD Festival. I can already tell you that we will have a public free call for dummy about a personal photo book, with a winner also selected by Maurizio Galimberti and produced by dotART, a nice price for a nice urban photo project…” How do you live along with in the city of Trieste? What is the cooperation until now by the City Hall? “Hopefully this year we will have a good support from the City Hall and Government Region, with nice and important locations for personal exhibition. It seems that they finally understood the potential of this initiative.” Italy has an important historical tradition about photography, what is happening now? “A lot of local initiatives, done with a lot of passion, low budgets, often missing a central coordination; as usual in Italy, government policies are not oriented to professionals but to friends and political issues.” About the Italian photography history that has to be written, what Urban Photo Awards represents? “A very good chance for Photography, as it is Trieste Photo Days: an international contest 18 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
and a festival focused on Urban Photography. Today, most of the people in the world live in a urbanized area and there billions of pictures are shot every year.” Among your many initiatives, I have become curious about “Foodgraphy”. Considering the international success of TV program MasterChef and the Italian undeniably popular cuisine, you chose a perfect country and a perfect timing for promoting this kind of photography, both traditional and experimental... what exactly is Foodgraphia? “Foodgraphia is an Exhibion of Food Art & Photography. It comes from my last project www.shootfood.it, launched in September 2016, an authorial project about food photography. I started it because food in Italy is very important. In the last years we saw the explosion of cooking, food blogging, food story telling, etc. but the quality of the visuals often is not at the level of the food and it misses artistic values, so I thought it was about time for an authorial food photography project.” What is happening to contemporary still life photography? “Professionally not a great period, but I see a good potential in B2C cultural activities.” Are you expecting to organize again another edition next year? “Foodgraphia Exibithion went really well, we had a good public success, a lot of visitors, a good press diffusion. A very nice book produced, also published in digital version at https://issuu. com/shootfood/docs/foodgraphia . I understood Foodgraphia answers to a demand, and we see will go for a second edition in 2018. By the way, in May 2017 there will be Milano Food Week, an important festival about food and Ho.Re.Ca. world, sponsored this year by the City Hall, the Regional Government and other Government Institutions. As Shootfood we are organizing with them two dedicated projects about Food Photography. But this is a gossip :) !” www.urbanphotoawards.com
URBAN Photo Awards looks for talent and quality both among professional and amateur photographers, offering them an international stage from which to get noticed. The highest placing photos in the competition will take part in series of ”travelling” photography exhibits. Since 2011, URBAN exhibits were held in Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia, Croatia, Cyprus, Ukraine and Colombia.
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ARTIST DIARY
ph.-t: Giorgio Rossi
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“ceci n’est pas une pipe”
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ph.-t: Dayana Montesano
Ultracorpi - Model: Giada Capoluongo, 2016
Fear of showing oneself
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Ultracorpi - Model: Nina Orlandi, 2016
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ARTIST DIARY
ph.-t: Maria Semmer
Magic inspirations and alternative worlds…
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Dream Ballads N°6, fine art print on cotton paper, 70 x 100 cm / 100 x 140 cm, Ed. 5, 2015
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Maria Semmer is represented by Galleria Gallerati. We interview its director Carlo Gallerati. Carlo Gallerati has been active in the field of photography since 1985, as author, curator, critic, reader and lecturer. In 1991 he founded Foto Club Roma and in 2006 the artistic research group 06. Since 2007 he manages Galleria Gallerati, an exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art with a special focus on photography. Inspired by a personal theory around shooting and developing images that he defines “Oggettivismo istantaneo” (Instantaneous objectivism), he considers the various aspects of his activity – including the direction of the gallery – as components of an overall artistic operation. www.galleriagallerati.it 28 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
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From ‘Afleur’ 2010
COVER
ph.: Giuseppe La Spada - t: Emanuele Cucuzza
“GIVING SOMETHING BACK TO WATER”
Giuseppe La Spada
A COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONAL AND A VISIONARY VISUAL ARTIST, GIUSEPPE LA SPADA HAS PUT HIS TALENT AT THE SERVICE OF VITAL CAUSES FOR US AND THE PLANET… WE TALK WITH HIM ABOUT ONE OF HIS BATTLES, ABOUT HIS VIEW OF THE WORLD, AND NOT ONLY THE ARTISTIC ONE… A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING “INNOVATES SO RAPIDLY THAT YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW IT AND TRAIN YOURSELF, BY OBSERVING, DISASSEMBLING, ASSEMBLING BACK, ADDING AND MIXING DISCIPLINES.” IMAGEINPROGRESS.com 31
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BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY
ph.: Yang Yongliang - t: Emanuele Cucuzza
“AN ENDLESS LOOP AROUND US”
“Silent Valley - A Crocodile and Shotgun” - Photography - 100 x 179 cm - 2012
Yang Yongliang
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PHOTOS, VIDEOS, FILMS, INSTALLATIONS… THE SINCERE, CHARMING AND ENGAGING CREATIONS BY YANG YONGLIANG START FROM HIS (MONOCHROME) VISION OF THE WORLD AROUND US, A WORLD MAYBE IN A CONSTANT LOOP…
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ph.: Charles Pétillon - t: Emanuele Cucuzza
A CONCEPTUAL POINT OF VIEW”
Charles Pétillon
WELCOME TO THE VISIONARY WORLD OF CHARLES PÉTILLON, PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER AND CREATOR OF “CONCEPTUAL” INSTALLATIONS. HIS COLLABORATION WITH SUNBRELLA WILL BRING A SUGGESTIVE INSTALLATION TO SUPERSTUDIO, IN MILAN, FOR THE SUPERDESIGN SHOW CREATED BY GISELLA BORIOLI
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ph.-t: Alessandro Risuleo
CONTAMINATION BETWEEN THE ARTS
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FOCUS ON
ph.: Olivier Valsecchi - t: Emanuele Cucuzza
“A FICTION I WANT TO BE PART OF...”
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AMAZON ANTHONY, 2016
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YEARS AFTER THE THIRD COVER OF IMAGE IN PROGRESS, OLIVIER VALSECCHI INTRODUCES US TO HIS MOST RECENT SERIES “AMAZON”, “A POSTCARD OF THE HEAVEN FICTION IN MY HEAD.” IMAGEINPROGRESS.com 45
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Olivier Valescchi is represented by Opiom Gallery, we interview its Director Eve D’Orefice. Eve D’Orefice was born in the south of France. Graduate from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and SOAS in London, she started her career in Montreal before moving back to her home country to set up Opiom Gallery and share her passion for photography on the French Riviera.
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ph.: Robert Whitman - t: Emanuele Cucuzza
“GO WITH THE FLOW!”
Ipanema Beach, Rio
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Las Vegas, Nevada
A LOVER OF LIFE, ROBERT WHITMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN HIS OWN MAN, EXPERIENCING ADVENTURES THAT HAVE CHANGED, AND CONTINUE TO CHANGE, THE COURSE OF HIS LIFE AND HIS PHOTOGRAPHY… AN EXPLOSION OF DIRECT EXPERIENCES AND ENCOUNTERS, SUCH AS THAT WITH A YOUNG PRINCE, BEFORE HE BECAME FAMOUS…
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La Habana, Cuba
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We interview Eliona Cela, art director of TMG The Marsé Group, the New York agency that follows Robert Whitman.
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Eliona Cela moved to New York two years ago working as a freelance journalist for several publications. She began her career working in the fashion industry and then later transitioned to the public sector where she worked as a policy advisor in the European Parliament for the environmental committee. In Brussels she was always following the art world and studied at the Luca School of Art with a focus in art and design. After 6 years in Brussels she decided to move to the big city. Once in New York she started working as a business development consultant and started to get more active in the art scene, often visiting Chelsea art galleries and museum events. She became Robert Whitman’s manager and with that opened a new chapter of her career. Eli, as she’s called by Robert Whitman, lives in New York with her husband and her baby girl.
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Le sous bois, 2009
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ph.: Isabelle Levistre - t: Emanuele Cucuzza
“Anamnèse”... of a mother Born in the seaside town of Le Havre, Isabelle Levistre has always been passionate about photography. She decided to dedicate herself fully to her passion in 2006. Photography enables her to explore her interior world but also to open with the others. Always in search for sincerity. The photographic act is for her a shape of introspection on emotional and physical processes. It is through these feelings that she builds her images. Isabelle Levistre lives in Paris. Her works have been shown in various exhibitions, in particular in Paris-Brussels-Zurich. Little Big Galerie - Galerie TenArts - Fotofever Paris and Brussels. Le Sous-bois - Série anamnèse - Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie - Paris. Arbor essence III- Collection Pierce-Honolulu. 56 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
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le plongeon, 2009
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ph.: Luca Zanier - t: Emanuele Cucuzza
“Corridors of Power”
Luca Zanier
“PASSION,ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND ENTHUSIASM”: INTERVIEW TO PHOTOGRAPHER LUCA ZANIER, FAMOUS FOR THE EXTREME CARE AND ACCURACY WITH WHICH HE SHOOTS ARCHITECTURES AND INDOOR PHOTOS AND THE WAY HE CHOOSES LOCATIONS AND STORIES THAT AFFECT OUR EVERYDAY LIVES, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE RARELY ACCESSIBLE… HE TELLS US ALSO ABOUT HIS BOOK, “CORRIDORS OF POWER”, THE SOURCE OF THE PHOTOS PUBLISHED HERE. 58 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
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“FIFA I, Executive Committee, Zurich (2013)” Doing Without Daylight The executive committee meets on the third of five underground floors in the Home of FIFA. Swiss architect Tilla Theus calls the headquarters she designed for the International Federation of Football Association in Zurich’s exclusive Zürichberg neighborhood “a private residence for the family”. The football family’s decision-makers gather in the subterranean conference room lit by a crystal chandelier in the shape of a football stadium. Ex-FIFA president Joseph Blatter thought that the light in places like this “should come from the people themselves who are assembled there”. (Caption from the book “Corridors of Power”)
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ph: Alfonso Papa - Stylist: Serena Orlandi
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(OR THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF LIGHT) Make up & Hair Francesca Coa - Starring: Golo Fischer @Fashion Model
THE STORY OF A MAN TREADING THE ROADS OF LIFE. CHALLENGED, PRODDED, SLAPPED BY IT. TRANSFORMED, TRANSFIGURED. OBSESSIVELY DISTORTED AS IN A SCHIELE’S PAINTING. GENTLY OPPRESSED BY THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF LIGHT. 60 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
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FASHION IN PROGRESS
The Photographer Alfonso Papa
The Stylist
Serena Orlandi The Styling
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Make-Up Artist & Hair Stylist Francesca Coa
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t: Anita Zechender
Photos of a Soul - CHAPTER 9 - Contemporary art lives in Queens The lights of dawn seen from up here have the scent of the unlimited. Ethan and I took a break on this terrace, surrounded by the lights of the starry sky of Queens, yesterday night after the poetry reading that we do every Friday. I stood still for two hours, trying to photograph the impossible. I couldn’t imagine that my lenses could turn into telescopes, able to grasp the moment before the extinction for whatever extraterrestrial activity, that once lived on one of the planets of one of the many galaxies of the universe. This morning while the Brooklyn rooftops were still smoking, I woke up Ethan with a kiss, after taking his picture. I have captured in a photograph all of those Beings that I love very much, it was difficult to leave the house. A slight and childish anxiety clamped my throat, and then pressed on my chest. But I did it. I wore that boiled woolen hat that I like so much, it always makes me feel appropriate, and a scarf that I found in a secondhand clothing shop in Nolita. It is starting to get cold over here on this side of the world, on this side of the ocean. My comfortable shoes kept trace of the destiny of a new day here in New York, my photographs lay in a vintage, blindingly bright red bag, where I always put the entire world, waiting to get out and tell a whole new story. I get on the line 7 of the subway, towards Long Island City. If you love contemporary art and you are looking for an unconventional place in this moment, then it is Queens you need to go to. It is the most multiethnic neighborhood in New York, a rising area, constantly growing from both an artistic and a human point of view. These past months, years, I have been asking myself how I could be able to undo that inexplicable sense of incompleteness I feel inside when I cannot write one single line on an empty sheet, when I look in the caldron of words for the right one, that single word able to represent the caress or the fist I feel in my heart. But this does not happen with photographs. They wait for me. They look for me, and in a single moment they are defined for eternity. Here we are at the Socrates Sculpture Park, which hosts temporary art installations that tell their story by emerging from the skyline of this heterogeneous metropolis just to end up in the surrounding green. A pyramid made of terraces of grass and flowers, two trees created using trunks and branches weaved together. All of this is what I had in my mind, this was what was silently climbing up in my soul. The search for a zen and minimalist atmosphere
bring me to the nearby Noguchi Museum, where stone and metallic sculptures tell me the story of a faraway Japan. In this area full of factories and hangars, my gaze gets lost and discovers the MoMa PS1, which is located inside an old school, with its hallways, cafés and classrooms. I start running. It’s as if between those desks and teaching posts, used as tables, the unclear images of unexpected faces appear one after the other, for a split second I think I can hear a young and fascinating violinist playing an inverse canon. I cannot see his face, I fix him in an image but suddenly I can’t understand anymore if he is only in my imagination. I read the menu on an old blackboard, I take a picture of it because in that specific moment I feel like I have no defined age, I am a child and at the same time I’m also a twenty year old purist running towards the first run of the most unreleased movie of the season. I have a meeting with my editor, a journalist and photographer extremely famous here in Manhattan, who is also a friend of mine and a source of continuous growth and enlightenment. I tell him I am working on a project for the Columbia University: Art, Avant-garde and Psychoanalysis of the Eternal Feminine. And it’s in these words that I can hear my soul re-emerge, it’s here that writing, the study of psychoanalysis, the academic research and the photography are reborn. I stop. I shoot. The picture is what connects everything. What transforms everything. It is difficult to have the person who is watching you, understand the story you were wishing to tell. Sometimes it can’t be done. Sometimes it can. But as soon as you see a glimpse of revelation on the face of the person in front of you, you forget the barriers and the sacrifices that this job often requires, and everything gains sense and harmony again. On the park along the East River, I sit down and perform some Asana postures during my yoga class. I breathe. A stranger on a kayak gently caresses the water and, while looking at the Upper East Side, I feel like the Eternal Feminine (*), the favorite subject of the picture of the century. It’s 6:00 pm and somebody on the other side of the river is shooting their masterpiece. *Ewigweibliche: the “Eternal Feminine” is a term which was first used by Wolfgang Goethe. “Ewig”, eternal, conveys the force of the female who drawns to heaven, who gives birth to the male in the sky, giving birth out of time.
To be continued in the next issue.
*Anita Zechender, a free-lance journalist, a traveler by inclination, loves to observe the world’s nuances, understand their interconnections and leave them again free to play. After she obtained a Master’s degree in fashion, she has been researching new trends and has performed advertising work for Miss Sixty e Murphy&Nye. Writing for her has always been artwork, something that needs phantasy to be intuited, courted and loved. Photography, fashion and art unveil the eternity of time to those who have the soul to understand it. She writes about travel, photography, fashion, art and design for international magazines. Inspired by Bradbury, Nabokov, Allende and Tim Burton’s films, she is taking her first steps as a writer with a story written in installments for Image in Progress. 64 IMAGEINPROGRESS.com
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