Elisabetta Lombardo Photography
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Wildau
I took a short trip to Wildau (close to Berlin), also home to a University of applied sciences and here are a few images from that day.
Find the same part 2 – beauty ideals and flawlessness on the streets of Berlin (and Leipzig)
Continuing my series on beauty images (and ideals) in Berlin (and Leipzig).
It is not always about the sexualization and objectification (although that is unfortunately the rule it seems), you mostly see women immobile, staring into space, looking startled or…
Shaping CITYzenship – Photos!
A while ago I wrote about this project I was involved in, which revolved around the city of Berlin, with a focus on the changing nature of the city and how media campaigns have shaped my understanding (in a way…
Find the same – beauty ideals and flawlessness on the streets of Berlin
Killing Us Softly 4 Trailer from Media Education Foundation on Vimeo.
In her documentary, Killing Us Softly 4, Jean Kilbourne says, referring to the ideal of absolutely flawless beauty with which we are continually fed by ads:
“She never …
Welcome me to active feminism
For those of you who know me and follow me on twitter, it is quite obvious that I am passionate about feminism. Today, as I did my daily reading on Sociological images, I found this
“Men and women …
People in museums
In the spirit of traditions I went to the 28th Long Night of Museums in Berlin…, which took place at the end of January.
I am fascinated by people in museums. It is this apparently banal activity of looking
Do you remember winter?
Today I noticed that daylight sticks around longer than before (finally!). Then I got some old films at the lab and I found these. That day I was traveling to Charlottenburg to run some errands there and the snow made…
A place of silence – from the archives
These photographs where shot in the park around the Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism
The changing language of craft – Berlin
This article appeared on the Craft Guerrilla Zine, issue nr.8 (Winter Zine), which you can must buy here.
You can get it either as pdf or hard copy. It is a monthly issue which features articles, fantastic illustrations and …
Portraits of self-sufficiency: Graffiti Research Lab Germany
This time we had a short chat with Mirae Rosner and Jesse Scott, the two initiators of the German cell of Graffiti Research Lab. If you’re curious, read on.…
Sharing knowledge and tools is at the very core of Graffiti
Portraits of self-sufficiency
Sharing knowledge and skills can mean many different things: it can be a way out of a system based on products that are designed and made under precarious economic and social conditions, it can mean having the chance to contribute…
Portraits of self-sufficiency: SDW Neukölln
This is the first interview for the series “Portraits of self-sufficiency“, which we are very happy to be launching today. I am also very happy that this is going to be a collaborative project, with great photographer Gabriele …
Decide what goes on the billboard
I was walking through Alexanderplatz in the late afternoon, when I saw a group of people drawing on what is normally a panel reserved for advertisement. So I parked my bicycle and talked to them.
It turns out, this was…
Light
I am working on project… with another photographer, and it will be launched soon. So, please come back.
Negatives have been scanned, photos have been chosen, light has been evaluated and during an almost perfect end-of-summer night, while strolling around
Anti-nuclear energy demonstration in Berlin: let’s fight the system, just not the sexist part of it
On Saturday 18th, roughly 100.000 gathered and marched… from Hauptbahnhof (Berlin central station) to the Reichstag, to show their opposition to the government unwillingness to completely abandon nuclear energy.
I was there, as you can imagine, and besides walking alongside
Domesticity series: hiccups-free morning
A few months ago I mentioned the calm before the storm… in what seems like a typical rant of mine. In the past few months I have been thinking about domesticity for other projects and small investigations, though those were
In continuous evolution
Films remain in their box, filed and properly kept for months before it is possible to look at them with fresh eyes.
Continuing my “Visions of humans” series.
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Looping – On absence
It is not possible to show absence of men. The act of taking a photograph is a human action, and that who gazes at the photograph is destined to think of a man or a woman, if not because of…
Exhibitions
Berlin: Exhibition’s archive
Hamburg: Exhibition’s archive
Naples: exhibition’s archive
“Geneva: exhibition’s archive”
“And this was supposed to be a post about a pottery market”
In the past few months I have felt disconnected and somewhat isolated. Now, it’s hard not to fall into the usual “solitary-artist” stereotype who works in darkness and isolation, to then deliver a new masterpiece to a world of stunned…
Urban agriculture – taking back abandoned public spaces in Berlin
Cities have plenty of abandoned public spaces and when they manage to remain in public hands, which is not always the case unfortunately, often something very special can happen. An example is this great project: Prinzessinnengärten… (Princess gardens), launched by