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the importance of being wastd You’re an artist, photographer or illustrator. Often you create for specific commercial reasons because of the task at hand. Ask yourself how much you are able to express your vision. Think about how often you create for purely artistic reasons without commercial restrictions or requirements. We all need a place where we can freely express our imagination, creativity and vision . . . a place where business or economic concerns don’t reign. We need a place where people can gather around ideas, where free will and creative exploration govern. The main goal of wastd is to support photographic and

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stefano giovannini

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Make a short introduction of yourself, for example why, when or how did you start being a photographer? In high school I was not good at technical nor artistic drawing yet I felt an appreciation for art and beauty. I liked to frame what I could see through a camera lens. My dad, who was not a professional photographer, gave me his old Nikon F2 when he upgraded.

I went through various phases and after an initial skepticism I loved switching to digital photography. I always wished for immediate visual feedback and independence from labs, darkrooms, technicians. And you can’t beat instant gratification. With digital I have way more freedom and control, but I miss the social aspect of rental darkrooms where you could mingle with other photographers and see their work. Now it is

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more of a lonesome and individual experience in front of a computer screen editing, rating, captioning and so on.

You are alert of your surroundings and open to the unexpected. But you kind of have a destination to go to.

Photography as a mission or as a passion?

Your pictures are mostly premeditated, or do you always carry a camera around with you?

Passion. Passions sometimes lead to a missions. How do you choose your subjects? It is a sort of visceral impulse at first. There is a conscious aspect too. It is a little like driving a car. You have a destination in mind but you do not think about what you are doing all the time. It comes natural.

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I carry a camera at all times. Lately I started shooting less and thinking more about the what, who, how, why I photograph. What about the scope of photography, commenting, storytelling or mere fine art? It depends on the photographer. what is art? what is documentation? Different people may

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have different answers. I think you need a bit of everything without going too much in one direction. A balance without losing the instinctual side. art photography can be pretentious, documentarism can be too plain. If you could describe your work with 5 words, what would you say? Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t describe it in five words. What is the most common

mistake you do in your work, if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s any? When I am tired I can get lazy. Sometimes I see something and I think i will come back to it later and then I always forget to. I have cheap lenses. If I had expensive lenses 2 stops brighter I could take better photos. but I like to work with what I have. sometimes I see news photographers with expensive Nikon D3s etc and they use those expensive cameras by all

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taking the same photo of a photo op. I like to look at details that are not apparently obvious. I used to actually focus more on details rather than being able to capture an image that would give a sense of the whole situation but I got way better working for newspapers and having to deliver that. After a while you learn and the boring assignments make you a better photographer for the interesting assignments.

Who is the target of your photographs, if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s any?

Reality is not flat either. Different characters have different messages.

I do not think to anyone in particular. people that are curious. people that care. people that are or want to be in my life. people interested in life.

What are going to be your next projects? would like to go back to Haiti and spend more time and show images beyond the suffering and hardship. everyday life. the struggle and the will to live. If you had to suggest a photographer you want to be interviewed, who would be and why?

People is the main subject of your photographs, are the characters intended to mean a message or to be a flat representation of the reality? The world has not been flat for a while.

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brooklyn based self-taught photographer

stefano giovanniniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasingly well known

from milan, italy.

web journals, where he displays photographs of new york city and his travels across the usa are characterized by an impulsive,

stefano giovannini studied medicine for some

anthropological approach.

years; but felt he would be happier pursuing his passion for photography. since relocating to new york city in

2000, he has worked for

in the past year mr. giovannini has begun an ongoing photographic study documenting the

major and independent magazine publications

haitian diaspora in miami and brooklyn that he

in europe and the u.s. including nylon, soma,

eventually intends to publish in book format.

jane, entertainment weekly, and the timeout ny

guide, among others.

and jamaica to expand his documentation of the

2008, and 2009 he spent some time in haiti

african diaspora in the caribbean and united some of his better known work includes of

states.

images of musicians, including sonic youth, cat power, dj olive, luna, beck, blonde redhead

since

2008 he has been a regular contributor

published in various formats including cd

to brooklyn based newpapers in brooklyn

covers promotional materials and advertising.

documenting dai ly life, politicians, communities, territory.

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A short introduction of yourself, for example why, when or how you started being an illustrator? My name is Officina Infernale and I started in the 90s as a cartoonist and illustrator. Now my main occupation is within the Murder Skateboarding 52

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brand, that produces garments, comics and paintings.

Murder project is mainly about the Iron Gang characters, a weird band made up from mexican wrestlers devoted to save the world. The result is a “superhero populated” trash universe. The graphic style of Murder was also argument of an baccalaureate thesis. I’m also working on many different comics as Motosega, Grief and many other short stories. The most hardcore part

of my work are represented by the black and white anthologies. They focus on a satyrical view of the human genre and its defects (social, mediatic,

and so on). I started as a graphic designer. After a while I became a cartoonist and illustrator. I really go back and forth from

the graphic design to the illustration, I need both to express fully my creativity and I don’t want to impose limits to myself.

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Cartoonist as a Passion or a Profession? Mainly because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m mad, I started when i decided to quit.... In the 90s i really wanted to be a professional

cartoonist, but i had no experience or the graphic style i wanted, so I quit and I continued as a graphic designer and painter. in 2007, without real meaning I started again

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and a lot of stuff followed. From what are you inspired?

comics, graphic design, grindcore, metal, LP Covers, illustrators, painters, quite everything...

Trash Z-Serie movies, 70s Marvel and DC

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done later, if needed... Your works are the result of a deep documentation process or of a creative improvisation? I let the creativity the opportunity to run wild, documenting could be 56

Comic is mainly entertainment, do you believe it has different meanings and it must be considered a work of art? Yes, it could and must be considered art as much

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itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a different beast, for example it informs about facts. Barriers make no sense at all between any form of art or

expression. Anyway the situation evolved in this way somehow, but not enough, indeed a lot of obstacles are in place.

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the mistake you commit more frequently in your works?

What are the five words that describe your works in the best way? Colored, violent, sick, Pop, Noisy. Admitting that one exists, what’s

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It happens I accept too many different projects, then i start feeling myself pressed in too much responsibilities, but eventually I’m able to achieve the happy ending , tired but

Are your works addressed to a specific target?

Within your works do they represent metaphors of the reality?

No age, no race, no color. definitely happy. Comics are ever conceived around one or many main characters.

Nope. But it depends mainly by the way you mean the history or the character. I prefer

to represent a whole story in a comic. Implicit messages or metaphors are not needed, it’s only about the author’s will.

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What about your next projects? Right now I’m working on a new Sci-FI comic, and i’m waiting for 24 new pages of Motosega. I’m working on the material needed to build a new +sangue+ web gallery. A lot of stuff for Murder project. Next year I’ll be totally into the whole collection about the Iron Gang. Two 96 pages volumes and some more short stories... if I’m able to survive till that day....

Barbecue Fight

Last Bullet

Barbecue Fight at 6.00 am

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1970 1975 he discovered marvel and dc comicsâ&#x20AC;Ś from that moment on he never stopped reading and drawing. officina infernale is born in padua in the and in the

after he came back to italy, he ignited with a partner the murder clothing project, later

known also as murder skateboarding. up to today he made more than

100 graphic designs

to be used on the products.

being that officina infernale is a bit in the

megalomanic, he uses his own comic

pantone and the different printing systems.

comics and as paintings.

80s he attended a graphic school where he learnt to use the watercolors,

moreover he also started skating, he became

characters as much as he can: as toys, as

a drummer, produced and sold old hardcore

Tijuana Mon Amour

bands t-shirt. he collaborated with a fanzine called

1000 maniacs e he badly drew a bunch

of mad comics.

he eventually came back to comics and this is his latter production:

iron gang halloween monster party massacre

1986 2008

90s he attended the scuola del fumetto (school of comic) in milan where he had the

nixon

opportunity to learn more about drawing

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in the

and colors techniques, but he had not yet achieved a proper style. while studying

hardcore

sherwood comix lamette comix

he was hired as graphic designer at the skatesnowboard magazine and he was the lead singer and drummer in many different hardcore bands.

Iron Gang

now he is working on: motosega creatura by akab

& alessandro

cremonesi

1997, video inferno (story by diego cajelli). his first publication happened in the

Dead aka Zombie Plague

jesus stanislavsky by alessandro cremonesi

(us market)

inner space (sci-fi comic)

meanwhile he drew the covers of il libro di

sangue (a book made of blood) by clive barker

he is a painter too and he works also on

family) by mark laidlaw.

murder clothing was his baccalaureate thesis.

and the la famiglia nucleare (the nuclear

Who is the next illustrator that deserves to be interviewed and why? Akab for sure, he is absolutely terrific...

The End

he spent some years in london, from the very end of the

90s up to the 2003, where

he stopped the comics production to work

as a waiter and to learn photoshop. he was hired by record publishers as covers graphic designer (the miles apart, avulsion, soa

records anniversary triple cd, raw power,

if you like my works you can reach me at:

published), dogfight, comrades)

or write me at: officinainfernale@yahoo.it

army of angry youth, by all means (never

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limited portfolios.

www.officinainfernale.blogspot.com

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MeSSage in a PiCtUre introspection in/out 64

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by damiano cecchelin

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wastd inc. and its website wastd|Beta are starting the wastdGalleries initiative and examining a long list of candidates, we picked up a few of them because we believe their works are worth a deeper insight and they expresse talent and visionary above others.

Wastd Galleries are intended to be a series of monographic interviews to talented and innovative photographers. Any interview will be made by different parts and it will be deployed on the different media published by wastd inc.

Any Wastd Gallery is composed by: Introduction: a short biography (derived from the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wastd personal account compiled by you) and critical analysis Interview: a full list of question would be sent to the author and the author will send back the answers Gallery: a gallery of ten to twenty pictures The Photographer will obtain: A personal account on wastd Beta website Profit return, as stated by the ToS published on wastd Beta website at the Co-Op paragraph, from any single publication of your pictures.

Any interview will be made by different parts and it will be published on the different publication printed by wastd inc.: Wastd Beta website Wastd Magazine - Official Edition (monthly issue) Wastd Galleries book series (bimonthly issue) It could be publicly exposed on events or activities within the wastd inc. range 68

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wlGalleries wGalleries w lGalleries Galleries Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be shy! Send us your application by using the contact form at http://wastd.com/wGalleries Probably you deserve the chance to be interviewed and to be appreciated by people around the world.

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editor in chief

wastd team

editorial director art director design director

marco burinato a.k.a. buri fiorenzo borghi maurizio ercole

creative directors

wastd team

contributing members (alphabetical order)

paolo cardone; damiano cecchelin; gothlandia; william quinn; leanne staple; matt staudenmaier many thanks to

stefano giovannini moz a.k.a. officina infernale

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