Elisabetta Lombardo Photography
Welcome to my world
Thoughts on photography
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
When in London, think about Berlin
I am in London for a couple weeks to attend two interesting courses on textile design… and this chaotic city tends to be overwhelming, at least to someone who is used to relaxed, “take-your-time” Berlin. Not sure why, but whenever
Sharing knowledge – Film photography podcast, useful things
It’s always nice to discover things you thought the world needed. Case in point, I recently stumbled upon the film photography podcast…, which is something the world needed because, as the authors themselves recognize, the world is already filled
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…
Public spaces in Berlin: truly public decisions?
Due to something I have been working on, I have been out observing and photographing the city a lot. Berlin is not a city that has gone undocumented. Quite to the contrary, there are many exhibitions and art works dedicated…
And it’s spring again
So apparently it’s spring and Berlin is slowly (slowly) coming to life. Soon you will have the usual newspaper articles about people massively going to the parks, the bike business reaching its seasonal peaks, and some brave people attempting the…
On limited printing – the wonders of the dark room
As you can probably see by the side bar on the home page, I have updated my Etsy shop…. I have added some color prints today, literally fresh out of the dark room and I am very proud of
Sharing darkroom know-hows: Darkrooms in Berlin
I have heard it enough times to make me worry: “dark room work will eventually die out or remain a very restricted niche field”. Is it true?
Be as it may, there is a certain tendency to dismiss analog photography…
The December 12 “candle” demonstration in Berlin for the Copenhagen summit
On the 12th of December I went to a demonstration, a candle light demonstration in a cold pre-Christmas Berlin, held in front of the Brandenburg Gate and organised by the group TCKTCK….
The aim was, of course, to tell
No abstraction
Someone told me that I should be writing about the exhibition, as it’s something rather important and it’s happening right now….
Whereas it is indeed something that literally shapes my days and consumes a lot of my energy,
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…
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…
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…
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.
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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…
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
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
Updates on the project “Structurally recyclable, basically disposable”
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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
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”
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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…
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…