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FLORENCE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS DIVA SCHOOL OF DIGITAL IMAGING AND VISUAL ARTS


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On Thursday, October 19th from 6-9 at CORRIDOIO FIORENTINO, the student gallery of the Department of Photography of Florence University of the Arts (FUA), will open the FACES exhibition featuring portrait photographs taken by Simone Ballerini. Simone Ballerini is a commercial lifestyle photographer based in Florence, Italy. He began photographing with the most basic natural/available light. He then wanted to represent his subject in a more professional, artistic way so he started learning everything he could about recognizing great light and the use of the flash. He was inspired by the work of great contemporary portrait masters such as Dan Winters, Platon, and Marco Grob leading him to create a visual style close to the editorial portrait. By looking at their amazing work featuring well-known names from politics and the art world he soon discovered that the people he loved to photograph were extremely far away from celebrity and glamour. He loves to shoot close friends, family and interesting people he just met. Simone Ballerini says, “the photograph is a way to capture/freeze something changing, a new encounter, an old friend, faces that I don’t want to forget.” Ballerini has always been drawn to portraits. “Since my first snapshots I started noticing that a person, a face would always be the reason why I raised the camera to my eye and that I couldn’t take a decent landscape picture if my life depended on it” Ballerini.

Giovedì 19 ottobre alle 18 al nuovo CORRIDOIO FIORENTINO, la galleria del Dipartimento di Fotografia allestito nei locali del Palazzo FUA - Florence University of the Arts, in Corso Tintori 21, inaugurerà FACES, la mostra curata e allestita dagli studenti di Introduction to Digital Photography e di Visual Communication Design Fundamentals Studio, che esporrà la collezione di volti inediti del fotografo Simone Ballerini. Ispirato dai grandi maestri del ritratto, come Dan Winters, Platon e Marco Grob, famosi per le magnifiche interpretazioni delle immagini dei potenti di tutto il mondo, Ballerini ha sempre preferito cogliere le espressioni delle persone che facevano parte del “proprio” mondo, lontano dalla celebrità: il vicino di casa, l’amico stretto, il familiare, o i passanti che fermava per strada. Di questi, il fotografo coglie sempre la luce più realistica, sia sfruttando la luce neutra, senza filtro, sia con l’utilizzo del flash per risaltarne la naturalezza, alla ricerca della vitalità del volto, dello sguardo impertinente, o divertente, o profondo, colti nell’attimo dello scatto. Una vitalità che cambia, si modifica, perché siamo noi stessi in eterna evoluzione, e proprio per questo Ballerini ama fotografare questi volti, perché “la fotografia è un modo per catturare, per fermare qualcosa che sta per cambiare, e - come sostiene il fotografo - io non voglio dimenticare quei volti, domani non saranno più gli stessi”. Simone Ballerini ha sempre preferito il ritratto, nei tanti generi fotografici, sin dal suo primo approccio alla camera, ed ha sempre notato come l’esigenza di avvicinare il proprio occhio alla macchina fotografica sia sempre stato legato al voler cogliere quell’attimo, prossimo al mutamento, della faccia, delle facce, a lui più care. Simone Ballerini è un fotografo pubblicitario fiorentino, specializzato in fotografia per la moda e lifestyle ed insegna diversi corsi alla Florence University of the Arts, come Introduction to Fashion Photography e Street Photography.



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FACES florence university of the arts

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diva

simone ballerini photographic solo

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fall

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FACES florence university of the arts

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diva

simone ballerini photographic solo

opening

|

fall

2017

-exhibition

corridoio fiorentino

Oct 19

Oct.19 Nov.15

2017

6-9

2017

pm

CATALOG CURATING AND EXHIBITION INSTALLATION Hoong Jun Au Yong Donald Blair Yu-Chuan Cheng Isabella Gutierrez-Aguirre Ting-An Lai Alma Limon Erika Pistor Margarita Poroshina Gina Valentino Students Introduction to Digital Photography Experiential Learning David Weiss Professor Introduction to Digital Photography Experiential Learning

CORRIDOIO FIORENTINO

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cover Design by Yu-Chuan Cheng Student Visual Communication Design Fundamentals Studio I Stefano Maria Bettega Professor Visual Communication Design Fundamentals Studio I Giulio Vinci DIVA Academic Coordinator Printed October 2017 by

FLORENCE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

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