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LILIZOE ERMEZEI

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I DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER WITH BIG WORDS

S HORT

I NTRODUCTION

My name is Lili Zoe, I was born in 1988 at Budapest, Hungary as a daughter of an artist father and a medical doctor mother. Now I am finishing my MA Photography degree at Moholy-Nagy

University of Art and Design, Budapest. Photography was love at the first sight for me when I was 15. I won a scholarship to Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan so I live in Milan now.

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P HOTOG RAPHY

AS A

M I SS ION OR PASS ION ?

Both. My passion is to complete my mission, which is to save or create memorable feelings and moments through my models. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to make the world better with big words, I just want to give some feelings for the people. (anyway the word becomes better if people start to feel better) H OW

DO YOU CHOOS E

YOU R S U BJ ECTS ?

Every time the subject of my photos are people who interest me, I am looking for their character and intimate world

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then I try to visualize it. I want to get inside their own world with my camera. W HAT

ABOUT SCOPE

OF PHOTOG RAPHY , COM M E NTI NG ,

STORYTE LLI NG OR M E R E FI N E ART ?

Not easy to find the answer for this question. For me photography shows the photographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way of thinking of the subject and of the whole world. And the viewer of the

picture can keep on thinking and sooner or later the picture reaches the viewer emotionally as well. It is a wonderful line of thoughts, concept and emotions between the donor and the recipient. Like a novel, photography always tells something.

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INTIMACY, ASSOCIATION, EMOTIONS, RESPONSIBILITY… IF

YOU COU LD

WITH

PROJ ECTS ?

WOR DS , WHAT

Intimacy, association, emotions, responsibility,… I am 22, I need more years and pictures to find out the fifth word. W HAT

I S TH E MOST

COM MON M I STAKE YOU DO I N YOU R WOR K , I F TH E R E ’ S ANY ?

I don’t have enough experience to know this yet, but I really want to know what it is.

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AR E GOI NG

TO B E YOU R N EXT

WOU LD YOU SAY ?

W HAT

DE SCR I B E YOU R WOR K

I would like to prove myself in fashion photography, I’m really curious if I can do it in an intimate artistic way. IF

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TO S UGG E ST A PHOTOG RAPH E R YOU WANT TO B E

I NTE RVI EWE D , WHO WOU LD B E AN D WHY ?

It would be Elinor Carucci, I love her works. Her private intimate photos give me a lot of inspiration.

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Lili Zoe Ermezei My name is Lili Zoe, I was born in 1988 at Budapest, Hungary as a daughter of an artist father and a medical doctor mother. Now I am finishing my MA Photography degree at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. Photography was love at the first sight for me when I was 15.

I won a scholarship to Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan so

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I live in Milan now.

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Interests: photography and traveling and traveling and photography and sleeping and strong coffee

Skills: figuring out which one of these things doesn’t belong here. listening, when i’m interested. Website: http://www.leannestaples.com

About me passionate about photography. especially architecture, and big puffy clouds, motion blur, reflections, shadows and street photography. oh, and rain and snow and umbrellas. I also go by the name ifotog.

Ramontic Barcelona, España

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Magneticpic La Vega, Dominican Republic

Brief description I mainly shot moving pictures for most of my life: hard news, commercials, corporate, music videos and social documentaries. However, in the last ten years of my career the need to deliver a strong, impacting but at the same time extremely concise message, made me focus more and more on still photography. Interests: photography, cinema and cigars and a couple of thousand more things Skills: photography, cinematography, lighting, time lapse photography, panoramic photography, non linear video editing, writing, producing, reporting, multimedia, web, research, deep respect of my fellows humans (and animals) Website: http://www.magneticpic.com/

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weig h Maurizio Rosenz He collaborates wit Golia by using the e on the comic David . pseudonym Muffa her itar, harmonica, ot He plays bass gu lin me Ha the for ics, than writing the lyr blues band). www. ho yc ps l rol (a rock’n linband myspace.com/hame Contacts logspot.com www.hurricaneivan.b it ail. em lagoladipuck@

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S HORT I NTRODUCTION OF

YOU RS E LF , FOR EXAM PLE WHY , WH E N OR HOW YOU STARTE D B E I NG AN I LLUSTRATOR ?

I started to imagine stories when I was a child. I used to create from scratch the most weird and dark characters, my brother helping me, and so I spent the most of my days day-dreaming. Things started to become much more serious when I decided to publish my own magazine, I was 15 yo: the Artist. It was a good way to avoid the boringness and to meet new people. In the first issue, completely cyclostyled, I published all stuff my friends gave me. The material was quite childish: doodles, gangster stories, how-to-rollyour-joint articles. Nowadays it is kind of funny to think about that period, nonetheless that magazine is a fundamental step 40

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on my path and we, me and the magazine, got along for a very long time. It gave me the chance to grow up as an author, without having to cope with the hard truth a publisher press on you, the former probably it would be too early as an experience. The magazine on due time became much more solid and coherent, now it’s called PUCK!. On the magazine along the years a lot of authors were published, between the best of the breed imho. : Hunt Emerson, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Bill Wray, Sergio Ponchione, Maurizio Rosenzweig, Pat Moriarity, Frank Stack, Carlo Peroni, Bacilieri… other than great people as Franco Trincale, Adrian Bandirali, Filippo Auti, Gerry Bruno.

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WHAT AR E YOU

I N S PI R E D ?

From events around me. I try to catch the most of the information, I mix them in my mind and then I present them to you as a byproduct...

Y OU R

WOR KS AR E TH E R E S U LT

OF A DE E P DOCU M E NTATION PROCE SS OR OF A CR EATIVE I M PROVI SATION ?

I look ever at the same authors before to start drawing, as a ritual. It’s a personal way to gain self esteem: to check myself against the big authors from the past makes me feel better. Ganefs!, by Bill Elder, published on the first issue of MAD, is one of those I knew by hearth because of the many times I read it. Frame by frame. This is also true for the most part of the comics by Jack Davis, Bonvi, Magnus&Bunker and Robert Crumb. By these you can only

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learn. I pretty sure my style is strongly influenced by these reading experiences. If you asked me to call some more specific references I would name: the kinky style of the Alan Ford’s beginning, the dark humour of Creepy and EC Comics, the cynical point of view of Bonvi (Cronache del Dopobomba). Sometimes instinct dominates. But it’s only appearance indeed nothing pops out by chance. I firmly believe that, also as an unconscious level, there’s ever the usage of some existing model.

C OM IC

B E LI EVE IT HAS DI FFE R E NT M EAN I NG S AN D IT M UST B E

CON S I DE R E D A WOR K OF ART ?

Have you ever had the chance to think all this is about a plan to rule the world? Think of it

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for me is punching a voodoo doll that is utterly similar to me. And, btw, late payments.

A DM ITTI NG THAT ON E EXI STS , WHAT ’ S TH E M I STAKE YOU

I love to think about my characters as poor people seeking a winning, but not probable, chance. I look at them as a defective piece of the Big System or, if you prefer, the leasts in the Social Hierarchy. They all are fighting for the their safety. The dwarf Puck, probably my most renown character, is fundamentally a dude that

COM M IT MOR E FR EQU E NTLY I N I S MAI N LY

E NTE RTAI N M E NT , DO YOU

as following: secret services hire the best cartoonist ever to draw sensible communications into their comics as subliminal messages. Those authors then have the power to overthrow governments, to get acquainted with femmes fatales, to destroy the Communist menace or on the contrary to let Communism rules the world. By the way, considering what the publishers are used to pay for the comics, that would be a great way to have a better wage.

YOU R WOR KS ?

Missing the deadline. It’s a never ending f..ing domino effect: late drafts, then late definitives, then late because of the closed art shop, late lunch, late supper, hours late at the date where the girl while waiting

AR E

YOU R WOR KS ADDR E SS E D

TO A S PECI FIC TARG ET ?

Milla Jovovich. Every single ink drop is devoted to her.

C OM ICS

AR E EVE R CONCE IVE D

AROU N D ON E OR MANY MAI N CHARACTE RS .

W ITH I N

YOU R

WOR KS DO TH EY R E PR E S E NT

M ETAPHORS OF TH E R EALITY ?

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lives by doing mischiefs, one of those you are willing to avoid in your everyday life because if he chose you then he’s going to be a pain in the ass. Jack, from the Groove series, is living on his girlfriends being perpetually without a job. Stanley the jackal is ever hungry. Aztrokitifk & Mario, the main characters of a series you can find on YouTube, are the emblem of the Great Depression: two fallen movie stars. Precary Man, an awkward superhero, the only one I’d ever drawn, is a ridiculous victim of the of insecurity among workers. They are all full of a primeval angriness, ever looking for 44

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revenge, but nonetheless they cope with their desperation, being actually their natural habitat. They struggle to survive by conceiving clever strategies to pay the let or to be a hero, ever achieving the worst results possible. This is leitmotiv of my characters and of my comics.

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between the Brigate Rosse (red brigades) and the Armata Brancaleone (a Monicelli’s movie). The comic is called “the New Partisans” and tells about the doings of seven 85yo former IIWW partisans (one of them is actually dead) while they are trying to bring freedom to

ABOUT YOU R N EXT

PROJ ECTS ?

I’m working on a new satyrical series, to be published regularly on Frigidaire. The adventure of a leftish terroristic band composed by a group of 80yo guys, a mix

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Italy by ditching the existing politicians. A very important politician is killed in a any new episode, to meet the desires of the angriest readers, and there’s a redundant voiceover accompanying the scenes. It’s going to be funny I’m working on a special PUCK! issue too. It’s an experiment, as Art

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Spiegelman did and the Cadavere Squisito Surrealista did before. It’s a collective comic book, drawn by 101 international renown cartoonists. I care a lot about this project, given the widespread support in

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unexpected places. But now everything is strictly top secret.

W HO

I S TH E N EXT I LLUSTRATOR

THAT DE S E RVE S TO B E

I NTE RVI EWE D AN D WHY ?

Elena Rapa, she is fabolous. Or Geremia Moscatelli, a.k.a. Welcome Suckers. Have you ever seen his punk music record covers? If he were alive I would suggest Filippo Auti (votafrankestein. blogspot.com), a street 48

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artist. He was the highly unpredictable painter I ever known, nonetheless a great source of inspiration. He died poor, as in a Dickens’ story. But he was great, damn it! I’ve never seen someone able to twist and desecrate the society as he was able. His specialties were the collages and the open-air rallies in the artists’ borough of Brera. In those hallucinated speeches the whole society were dissected, piece by piece, and by using his twisted fantasy he was able to depict chilling scenarios: corpses fleeing from hospitals, crooks becoming saints and corrupt politicians. And, of course, the harsh and cruel street life.

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