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How long does it take to capture a unique photograph? Many would say that it takes a split second. Others would probably say several days, or even months; and for others it takes a few years. The answer and the truth probably lie somewhere in the gray area in between – a photograph takes whatever time it takes, as well a unique and historical context. Traditionally speaking, Hasselblad has always cherished good photography, and – regardless of the time it takes to shoot a picture – loved and supported the many Hasselblad photographers whose images have preserved even the smallest moment in time. This year we celebrate a new generation of unique photographic talent – this year’s Hasselblad Masters. Together we released the superb photo book “Hasselblad Masters Vol. 2 – Emotion”, and together we held quite a number of Master exhibitions around the world. We started at photokina in Germany back in September, where we launched the Masters book and put together a great exhibition at the Visual Gallery. Since then, the Masters exhibition has traveled around the world to Macao/China, New York/USA, London/England, Bogotá/Colombia, Woerden/ Netherlands and Zingst/Germany. As Photographer Relations Manager, I am also responsible for the global Masters program, and I was very happy to see the positive reaction to the works of those international photographers we have recognized with our highest award. During the opening receptions – like the one held at theprintspace gallery in London – or during Shoot NYC where the pictures were also shown, many visitors spoke to me saying how delighted they were and how the contributions by the Hasselblad Masters had stimulated and inspired them. If you would also like your photos to catch the public eye, you have till the end of the month to submit them to the Hasselblad Masters 2010. From among the eleven categories on our www.hasselblad.com website, you can choose the one you would like to participate in, and then upload your five best images – and, who knows, you may soon become part of the distinguished Hasselblad Masters family. You will find details on how to register, as well as information about the jury of experts, on the News page of this issue. Starting on page 26, Bronek Kozka, the 2008 Hasselblad Masters Award winner in the General category, is showing his newest art work – “Kew House”and “Home”. The detail-rich, impressive images are truly worthy of a Master, and will hopefully inspire you to submit your own photos by December 31 – after all, inspiration is the key to the Hasselblad Masters Awards. Yours, Christian Nørgaard, Photographer Relations Manager Hasselblad
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Daniele Barraco set up a mobile studio in Milan where he used an H3DII-31 to portray passersby – among them, Maria Dolores
4 >> News Hasselblad Masters 2010: Last chance! Online submissions in the eleven categories can be made up till December 31 · HassyNYC: Hasselblad’s pioneer online community is honored with two Direct Marketing Association Awards
6 >> daniele barraco Italian photographer Daniele Barraco is passionate about people – their faces and their stories. His uncompromising, expressive black & white portraits show both normal people like the newsagent Eddy, and celebrities such as the funk legend Maceo Parker.
22 >> Raffaele Sorbi Users of the Hasselblad Owners’ Club have chosen an image by the Italian fashion photographer as Photo of the Month. At VICTOR online he introduces some of his most beautiful shots, and explains how he achieved the results he was aiming for.
26 >> bronek kozka In two personal projects, Australia-based commercial photographer Bronek Kozka explores how people inhabit their spaces and the notions of home and homelessness. The images taken by this former Hasselblad Master are carefully constructed tableaux.
40 >> preview In the contrast-rich, dramatic portraits of his “Colombia” series, Dutch photographer Niels van Iperen immortalizes the diversity of the South American country’s inhabitants, whilst also presenting a multi-faceted and hopeful image of his adopted home.
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victornEWS online community hassy NYC wins two major awards
Hasselblad masters THE SUBMISSIONS DEAD LINE IS December 31
Hasselblad’s first online community, HassyNYC, was recently honored by the US Direct Marketing Association (DMA) with the Gold ECHO and Henry Hoke Awards. When HassyNYC was launched in October, 2009, it offered New York photographers the opportunity to share images, technical information and news, and provided an open forum for discussion, regardless of the type of camera being used. The site quickly grew into an extremely active and vibrant networking community. For this outstanding website, Hasselblad was awarded the Gold ECHO in the business-to-business category, based on the “overall creative concept, including copy, graphics and production quality, marketing strategy and response results.” The DMA’s distinguished jury members, all direct marketing experts, also chose HassyNYC from among the ECHO winners to receive the
Photographers still wishing to enter their work for this year’s Award have to hurry up: The deadline for all eleven Hasselblad Masters 2010 categories is December 31. Any professional using large or medium format cameras can submit works at www.hasselblad.com/masters. For the up-and-coming category, 35mm photos can also be submitted. For the first time this year, “wildlife” has been added to the existing architecture, editorial, fashion/beauty, fine art, general, nature/landscape, portrait, pro duct, up-and-coming, and wedding/ social categories. Judging is based on the photographer’s creativity, picture composition, conceptual strength and technical know-how. Once again, an independent, international jury – supported by a Public Vote – will have the task of choosing eleven Hasselblad Masters. The jury includes photographers Anton Corbijn, Steve McCurry and F. C. Gundlach, represen tative Howard Bernstein, and editor Grant Scott. In addition to the recognition, the winners will be able to use an H4D – made available by Hasselblad – to each create a unique series for the photography book, Hasselblad Masters 2010. Like previous editions, the book will be published by teNeues. Anyone looking to get an impression of the applicants so far, can do so at the Hasselblad homepage under “Masters 2010 participants”, where the five pictures submitted by each photographer are sorted according to category. You have time till the end of the month to do the same, uploading your images to be shown side by side with photos from around the whole world. Conditions of participation are on the Hasselblad homepage. ■
Henry Hoke Award, which “reflects the campaign with the most courageous solution to a difficult sales marketing problem”. Tom Olesen, president of Hasselblad USA was thrilled. “We are honored to receive these highly coveted awards and especially pleased that we were able to achieve this level of success considering the current economic challenges that face independent photographers and our industry in general.“ In the meantime, HassyNYC has merged with HassyLA and the rest of the country, to form www.hassyusa.com, an even more comprehensive community for photographers. ■
Photos by 2009 Hasselblad Masters Bang Peng (Landscape/Nature, above) and Stephan Zirwes (Architecture, right)
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Hasselblad users all over the world exchange news on the Hasselblad Owners’ Club (HOC) site. At the end of November, registered users chose a new Photo of the Month, taken by Edward Alba. With this picture, the Peruvian fashion photographer prevailed over the strong competition. We will fully introduce him in the January issue of VICTOR online. ■
Hasselblad Masters Clau dio Napolitano (Portrait, le.), Mark Holthusen (Products, above) and Mark Zibert (General, ri.) provided these pictures for the book “Hasselblad Masters Vol. 2 Emotion”, published by teNeues
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For photographer and music lover Barraco, it was a particular pleasure to portray legendary funk saxophonist Maceo Parker who, among others, has played with James Brown and Prince
Daniele Barraco Italian portrait photographer Daniele Barraco is passionate about people, their faces and their stories. Whether taking pictures of celebrities in his studio or backstage, or photographing Milan locals on the spot in a mobile studio set up on a street pavement, Barraco’s close-up, H3DII-31, black & white shots capture the very soul of his subjects.
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He’s got the blues – Daniele Barraco convinced Andrea, a har monica-playing pedestrian, to take part in the photo shoot. The photo was taken on the pavement of Rembrandt Street in Milan
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Daniele Barraco used an H3DII-31 to photograph world renowned Italian jazz drummer Roberto Gat足 to, who has played with Michael Brecker, John Scofield and Tony Scott, among others
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For his guerilla-type photo shoot in Milan, Barraco cast around in the streets, choosing pedestrians whose striking faces caught his attention – like hawker Ignazio (left) and student Flor (above)
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With an H3DII-31 and his favorite Macro 120 lens, Daniele Barraco achieved close-up, full-frame, truncated, black & white portraits of florist Enzo (above) and news足 agent Eddy (right)
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Robert Trent Jones II is one of the world’s most renowned golf course architects, who has de signed over 250 courses around the globe – from Australia to Denmark, from the United Arab Emirates to the United States
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Barraco also immortalized Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino in a close-up, black & white portrait tak en with the H3DII-31. Favino played in “Angels & Demons” next to Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor
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Above: Exclusive insights into Barraco’s portrait shoot on Rem brandt Street in Milan. This and other ‘making-of’ videos can be found at www.danielebarraco.com
Right side: Barraco discovered employee Maria Dolores during his street casting in Milan, immor talizing her there and then with his H3DII-31 in his mobile studio
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“I love people – I love their eyes, their skin, their wrinkles. I love the way the body is able to convey emotions. My job is to bring out those emotions,” Italian portrait photographer Daniele Barraco explains. “From classic black and white portraits to advertising shoots or fashion editorials, people are my props, my undeniable protagonists.” Among the celebrities Barraco has photographed, a significant number are musicians, like Funk legend Maceo Parker, singer songwriter Eugenio Finardi, and Placebo lead singer Brian Molko. There is a reason for the strong connection: before picking up the camera, Barraco made music for years – playing guitar, drums, and anything he could lay his hands on. “Music was my absolute first form of artistic expression, and I’m still very attached to it. My passion for music has undeniably been the biggest inspiration in my photographic research,” Barraco, who considers himself a “webtaught” photographer, being one of the first to emerge from sharing information on the internet, admits. Barraco sees no difference between photographing famous or normal people – except that celebrities usually have less time; it balances out, however, because they are more used to the camera. Brian Molko was an extreme case: Barraco photographed the Placebo singer just before a concert, capturing the cover photo of this issue of VICTOR online within three minutes. “We spent the remaining time chatting about music and Brian’s red leather Hasselblad 500 series,” the photographer, who always works with a H3DII-31, remembers. Barraco’s most unusual shoot, however, took place in Milan, when he set up a mobile, open-air studio on Rembrandt Street. Because he could not find one of the backdrop
poles, he improvised with a broom and a piece of wire. “It was totally unprofessional but the broom worked impeccably,” he says with a laugh. It was unnecessary to cast for the photo shoot. “I started taking pictures of a passerby and within minutes I was completely surrounded by curious people wanting to be portrayed. I chose the most interesting and pleasant faces. I must say it was a busy day but undeniably entertaining.” At the same time, the guerilla-like streetshoot had its dangers. Barraco was nearly involved in an accident, because a bus driver was so distracted by the photographer’s activities, that he nearly had a collision. The close-up, full-frame, at times truncated, black & white portraits, where Barraco deliberately plays with the contrast between super-sharp portions and deliberately blurred ones, were taken with his favorite lens, the HC Macro 120mm, on the H3DII-31. “The H3DII-31’s sensor format was crucial in the creation of these portraits. In terms of composition the same close-up taken with a 35mm, regardless of the difference in quality, is not as effective. The photo would be filled with too much empty space in relation to the subject’s face,” he explains. To underline his point, Barraco makes a comparison to music saying, “the amount of empty space in a portrait is as critical as the pauses in music. The portrait/ notes lose their effectiveness and intensity if they are not well balanced with the empty space/pauses.” The next big project Barraco has planned also pursues the connection between photography and music. “I’m trying to ‘resurrect’ the Beatles!” he confesses. “It’s a very ambitious project but also extremely entertaining! I hope to be able to share more news as this undertaking progresses.”
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Raffaele Sorbi Members of the Hasselblad Owners’ Club have chosen a picture by Raffaele Sorbi as Photo of the Month. Introducing the Italian fashion photographer and his aesthetic world.
“Fashion is my fashionation,” explains Raffaele Sorbi. Though he enjoys taking portraits, stills and wedding photos, his true passion remains with fashion. When he began his career back in the eighties, he found his greatest inspiration in the work of Richard Avedon: “I love the way he managed the light in the studio and on location, and his way of enhancing the beauty of the people he photographed.” It was “l’amore a prima vista” for the Italian when he received his first camera at the age of 16. Some years later love struck once more. “I had to shoot portraits of a Chinese Soprano singer for a classical music concert in Florence. It was love at first sight – and now she’s my wife.” His team, made up of makeup artist, hair stylist and assistant, is already well attuned to working to gether, helping him maintain control of his environment and assuring he achieves the envisioned results. “That’s also why I’ve chosen Hasselblad cameras,” he explains. “I don’t like sur prises, and these cameras never let me down.” For a month now he has owned an H4D-60, before which he used an H3D-39, an H3DII-39 and an H3DII-50. With the latter Sorbi took the picture that was voted HOC Photo of the Month (on the right): It was shot on the new wharf at Lido di Camaiore in Tuscany. His next personal project focuses on a far more serious theme: The seven mortal sins.” Vita: Born in Florence/Italy in 1961. Freelance photographer since 1986. His clients include Chelini and Moda e Modi. www.raffaelesorbi.com www.hasselblad.com/hoc
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Bronek Kozka “My images are best described as carefully constructed tableaux. They are cast with actors playing various roles, propped and lit, every detail is considered and controlled,” Bronek Kozka explains. The Australian of Polish origin has been working as an advertising photographer since 1990, while also doing his own projects and lecturing in photo graphy and portraiture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. The very detailed, bleak photos in his “Kew House” series leave the viewer unsure as to whether it is day or night, fiction or reality. “The photographs ask the viewer to question how they inhabit their spaces, and, more importantly, how they connect with other people within those spaces,” Kozka says, describing the series, which includes the pictures on pages 28, 31 and 32. The images on pages 26, 30, 34 and 38 are part of a long-term project called “Home”. “It explores the notion of home and homelessness,” Kozka explains. “It also explores the idea of the constructed documentary image.” Kozka used actors for the pictures, to illustrate stories, while not “branding” a person as homeless. Up until January 23, the group exhibition “Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany” can still be seen at the Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne. It shows pictures by Kozka next to works by other contemporary photographers from Australia and Germany. www.www.kozka.com www.hasselblad.com
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Next victor online: 1 january 2011 Be surprised by inspiring portfolios, keep up-to-date with the most significant photographic trends and read leading news for the photography community. On January 1st, 2011, check your monitor for the next issue of VICTOR online.
niels van iperen >> with his Colombia project, he has drawn a multi-faceted portrait of a whole country
morfi jimenez mercado >> scenes of daily life in Peru – enhanced with artificial lighting and atmospheric coloring
>> Discover the aesthetic world of the photographer who took the Hasselblad Owners’ Club photo of the month: Edward Alba
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