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We did it to ourselves – The world is a dangerous place
During my trip to New York a few months ago, I started collecting scraps of newspapers and magazines and drew my interpretation of what I read. The choice of articles came natural: it was mainly articles that distorted a topic completely, that presented human beings as objects or that simply made me shiver in awkwardness.
Along [...]
An off-topic Geneva series
It’s been a crazy week. Preparing for an exhibition is never easy and preparing for it and at the same time managing its “marketing” aspects (flyers, posters and what not) is incredibly stressful. I am saying nothing new here I am sure.
And whenever you are involved in such a preparation, so many things go wrong [...]
Budget cuts and double standards
“Unfair and unbelievable!” are the words I have used the most today, along with the display of a sorry face. I know times are tough for everyone, I know times have always been tough in the arts an culture scene in general, but sometimes I still manage to be unpleasantly surprised.
The Weinmeisterhaus, the culture centre [...]
November, november
November in Berlin.
This has been a month of reading, patient silence and not so patient attempt to get ahead of my desire to “know things”.
I have put my Holga to work and focused my attention on what I believe is my source of inspiration at the moment: the immediate and near world. I am not [...]
11th November 2009
Barthes on captions: “By means of an often subtle dispatching, it remote-cotrols him towards a meaning chosen in advance” Roland Barthes, cited in “Photography Theory”, ed. James Elkins.
Tags: berlin, polaroid
Very few colors – Vienna
I (we) spent the last weekend in Vienna, walking around, visiting exhibitions and eating out.
The (never-ending) train trip was worth it indeed. This, and other observations, should you be both Italian speaking and interested, were the subject of a blog post, followed by another blog post, on what I like to call my “personal blog“, [...]
Busy, rainy
It has been a very busy couple of weeks.
Among the interesting things that have happened.
I was interviewed by journalist Marco Patruno, author of the blog Generazione P. Here you can go and read the interview, which is in Italian, in case you are wondering.
I received my price for being among the winners of the contest [...]
7th September 2009 – Miroslav Tichý
I recently read a book about Miroslav Tichý, a painter and photographer born in Moravia in 1929 who constantly refused to conform to the Communist regime’s conventions, which were dictated also through a drastic change in professors at the Prague Academy of Arts where he was studying. The brutality of the regime and his personal [...]
Updates on the project “Structurally recyclable, basically disposable”
It’s nice to take some time to think things through, look for new inspirational sources and come back with something fresh.
So I have been photographing a lot, I have been learning how to sew, I re-discovered my childhood passion for fabrics, and I have been doing some thinking about how I want this project to [...]
Picture of a day – 21th July 2009
Reading the paper is my favorite time of the day.
Tags: berlin, creative, polaroid
Picture of a day – 20th July 2009
I am waiting for the instant paper to come in
“In all in all, photography allows us to show all that words would take an entire day to explain”
Tags: creative, polaroid
Picture(s) of a day – 19th July 2009
There is nothing like unconditional love.
Tags: berlin, creative, polaroid
Pictures of a day – or how to start a new tradition
I can’t communicate well lately. I mainly take pictures of things and situations that help me express myself or that struck me particularly.
Let’s just say I would like to use this form of “therapy” to help me get through other days like these, but, why not, also to simply mark a good day.
I’ll try to [...]
A small experiment on space appropriation
When I first moved to Berlin, I spent the initial couple of days trying to appropriate the space in the appartment. I didn’t feel exactly “at home”.
I tried feeling better by taking pictures in different rooms of the appartment to establish my own vision, to create a sort of “self-referential” image of how I wanted [...]
On, pause, off
Today I stop to think and realize how photography is the only way I can really interact with the world.
I can only talk through the way I perceive others. I can’t quite do it in any other way. I like silent observation.
I don’t like the childish debate-like interaction that sometimes comes out of seemingly interesting [...]