Elisabetta Lombardo Photography
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Documenting
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.
Outside
A couple of weeks ago I took a small holiday (= a weekend, yep that counts as holiday for the self-employed). A couple of days away, not too far, but still in a different setting. Bantikow, the place I am…
Landau report part two: the attempts to deliver the Nutcrackers
“Make sure you take everything with you! Don’t leave anything behind!”. The lady who shouted this was probably something like the thirteenth attempt on our part to gift random strangers in Landau with a Nutcracker.…
The Nutcracker is part of
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…
Landau report part one: volunteering, art and the private sector
I spent five days in Landau (Pfalz), to attend the European Citizens Convention on volunteering. My presence at such event was mainly justified to exhibit “Structurally recyclable, basically disposable…“, which represented a more critical take on the issue
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: 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
Photography books
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I have a lot of books on photography and I keep on accumulating and accumulating them. I think about is as a path that I am building for myself. Since there is so much to learn about, I sometimes tend
Frankfurt Main Station
Frankfurt Main Station, in German Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, is the busiest railway station in Germany in terms of railway traffic, and the second in Germany when it comes to number of passengers. Hamburg main station can reach 550.000 passengers per…
Time for a change
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After ruling out London as a potential dream place to live (though it’s still a great source for interesting shots), I am happily home, soon looking for a new apartment and trying to figure out my next move.
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