Photography

Nani Pontello

“The light that touches me is what I express in my photography ” , that's how the photographer Nani

Pontello begins a description of her work. Having inspirations and deepest aspirations reflected

throughout on her production, she explores her own shadows in the captured lights: pain and anguish

are constantly amplified in her imagery repertoire.

Bringing a melancholic and contemporary vision as a language, she works essentially juxtaposing

elements such as materiality and the oneiric, to be taken as an example, as emotional reflections.

Maureen Zacharki

My background is in acting, costume/ set/ lighting design, playwriting and in art. 6 years ago I

developed Trigeminal Neuralgia... an extremely painful nerve disorder of the face.

Even though I take photographs of a variety of subjects, I seem to focus on self-portraits. I'm fascinated

by the fact of what we hide behind our faces, even though we may be truly suffering inside... physically

or emotionally. And in the future I would like to expand on various themes on this subject.

Jonas Daley

Jonas Daley is a freelance photographer from China and used to work as a visual director and production designer. A modified infrared camera would be his most loyal partner on a travel. He

often observes the world via the infrared camera viewfinder. Fantastic colors have brought him great

inspirations for creation.

Jonas Daley integrated the ideas inspired from observation into his own creation, finally giving birth

to such a magical realism style: a distinctive and independent color that uses rich imagination and

artistic exaggeration to stage special performance of real life and turn the reality into a kind of

magical reality ” . For Jonas Daley, that magical reality is his sustenance of ideal beauty and dreams!

Olivier Valsecchi

Hasselblad Masters winner, Olivier Valsecchi uses photography as a medium to incarnate the emotions of

his psyché. Directing nude models like a conductor, he orchestrates perfect fantasmagorical images where

bodies, outlined in dramatic chiaroscuro, are deprived of gender or identity to be merely used as elements

of a narrative.

Born in 1979 in Paris, Olivier initially studied music as a teenager.

As he began creating cover art for his record sleeves, he became passionate and engrossed by photography. He then spent the next ten years taking portraits for his own enjoyment and mastering his skills upon entering the ETPA photography school to perfect his technical skills. His work is dark and mysterious, oozing the magic of nature, and uniquely represents the peculiar cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. As a way to translate his emotions, Valsecchi doesn't magnify one's body but rather, uses it as an empty

vessel to channel his own subconsciousness, therefore compose pictures that he qualifies as self-portraits,

although he doesn ’t necessarily physically appear on the photos. He finds his whole working system, from

visualizing a certain image to capturing the moment, to be based on his personal instinct. With his striking

black and white images and almost statuesque models,

to aspects of life that are rarely thought of as alluring. Valsecchi’ s work truly brings beauty and character