TWO WORDS WITH KARA BIEBER

Kara Bieber has been exhibiting her photographs since the age of eleven and was the winner of the ‘Woman Photographer of the Year’ award at the Venice International Photographic Competition when she was nineteen. Brought up in England she works abroad and is presently living in Tel-Aviv.

Isabella: Dear everybody, my name is Kara Bieber and I’m…..?

Kara: I am Kara Bieber, conceived in Jerusalem, produced in London, raised in Sussex and have lived in Florence, Buenos Aires and Tel-Aviv! Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/23/2010
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SOUTHERN COMFORT: JOHN KELSO

I love Dixies, I always did!

In history, the South of the US has always developed its own customs, literature, musical styles, and varied cuisines that have profoundly shaped traditional American culture. The southern collective identity has always had a different cultural distinctiveness. John Kelso seems to be in the good way of representing this mood. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/20/2010
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ROBERT GUMPERT, A STORY TELLER

The criminal justice system, police stations, jails,death row, convicts’ tattoos, homicide, marriage rights in San Francisco, field work, same sex marriages,human rights, first contact with paramedics.

These are just few of the keywords we might use to describe this freelance documentary photographer: Robert Gumpert. His, are not just pictures, they are stories told on images. There’s a meaning behind every scene, there’s a capturing piece of work that goes beneath the surface of these perfect black and white images. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/14/2010
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TWO WORDS WITH NICK RAY McCANN

Isabella: If you weren’t a photographer, what would you be?

Nick Ray McCann: Some sort of craftsman, that would be incredible. I grew up building and customizing things; guitars, stereos, bicycles, I love working with wood and metal especially.

Isabella: What does photography mean to you? What made you start?

Nick Ray McCann: I’ve always loved getting a rise out of people. I did portraits in high school where I would sit people down and startle them with an air horn the moment I shot the picture. Emotions and interactions have always been my favorite things to photograph.

Isabella: How many pictures have you taken since you started? Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/06/2010
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TALENTED MONSIEUR GOSSELIN

 

In his email he addressed me with an educated Madame, I can’t avoid turning with a Monsieur.

As written on his myspace page “Live Fast, Love hard, Die happy. This is the purpose of my photography work” and  “I’m not interested in showing a fake idea of what life is and I’m not to claim that my pictures describe anybody’s life. It is just my life as an art student…I could not divide my work into series. I visualize it as a continuous work that has begun when I first took my camera and will finish when I’ll drop it for good”. 

Larry Clarke would go mad if he met this Kid. But Théo Gosselin seems to know what his direction is, he’s not one of those Clarke’s lost boys. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/01/2010
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DUST TO DUST

Is this evanescence? Can you feel the velvetly smoothness of these images? The silent explosion? The stillness of the interrupted dust? Time passes but it can be stopped, with a click and it’s extremely eye-pleasing. This is just one of the many cool projects of  Ujin Lee. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

11/25/2010
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THE NEAT LIFE: FRANCESCO CARROZZINI

 

I’m fond of his mother but I’m too fond of this guy, too.Some may not appreciate his work, may not even appreciate this article.Now stop spewing on my words and listen to me: some may think it’s just marketing. It’s not at all. It’s a consideration upon the third eye.  Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

11/17/2010
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GET DOWN WITH THE PARTY – NICK RAY MACCANN

He just grabbed both my eyes.

Nick Ray McCann, born in Chicago in 1987, raised in Baltimore and currently based in NYC. His work features hard core parties, a spontaneous ability to capture feelings and a vast spectrum of places and people, exploring familiar objects and situations from unfamiliar angles. His art form seems easy thing to undertake, but it’s not at all. Even though young, he is not at all in his early stages. He takes away all the restrictions and his trend carries up the vivid present. Photography becomes just crafty in his hands.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

11/05/2010
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TOKYO LANDSCAPE

Eye and sign, ideograms. Tokyo, capital of Japan. Tokyo,  the miracle of chaos, the restless pulsing organism. Tokyo, the spontaneous architectural lab. Its constant mutation, and its natural mental architectural body, made of muscles, lights, nerves. Tokyo, the ancient culture, the Empire. Tokyo Landscape, a project by Antonio Saba which accompanies the spectator with pictures, descriptions and a visual stimulus through the different aspects of the city: the most lively megalopolis on earth. A lot more than a guide, little less than a journey. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

11/02/2010
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IN BED WITH:MAEVE STAM

The few green parrots who have remained in the park are soon leaving, reaching the south or the North Africa. As autumn is stretching its paws and winter is approaching, I figured out it’s getting cooler and cooler. I also realized we all need a cosy place to cuddle up.As we are human, (even if Marguerite Yourcenar once said that Love is a punishment and we are punished because we weren’t able to stay alone) we all need someone to stay with. In the end, we are social animals. We need to feel the heat of a cheek approaching to ours, a kiss on the lips, a caress, a warm embrace, we need to love and be loved, we need to nestle. It comes to my mind Ella Fitzgerald’s Fine Romance, (but with kisses, this time).

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

10/27/2010
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TWO WORDS WTH ALBERTO GUGLIELMI

Isabella: What do you love and hate about photography?

Alberto: I pretty much love everything about it. Shooting negs one thing fascinated me. How that perfect moment was not visible to the photographer (mirror up, viewfinder blank), only until the photos was developed. That sort of mystery about the photo was a catch for me. It still is a bit with the digital world, but not as far…I did not like the dark room too much, but now we are in digital age. So that solves it. But it also creates the only thing that sometime I hate about the job. Hours and hours spent “developing” the photos. Pretty much the transition to digital age made the photographer take over the job of the developing lab. But don’t get me wrong, I like digital.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

10/25/2010
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BOW-WOW TO WILLI DORNER AND LISA RASTL

Humans in odd formations and unusual locations. Photography and perspectives get truly twisted and combined. The body movement is here to the point of absurdity. Bodies and architectonical shapes combines with pictures. Geometric abstraction, where preconceived ideas prevent us from using what we have, differently. It’s austere and playful. It’s joyful. Let’s bow to Austrian art director  Willi Dorner and photographer Lisa Rastl.

Check The Bodies in Urban Spaces performances…maybe soon in your city.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

10/13/2010
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TWO WORDS WITH FLO FOX

 

After calling her mobile phone twice, Flo gives me a Skype meeting. I’m unfortunately unprepared and I have no microphone and no camera but I can see and hear what she says. She’s sitting next to a woman who reads out loud what I write, while she answers aloud. She’s beautiful with her Silver grey hair and the headphone set. What follows is a subscription of the conversation we had..

Isabella: If I didn’t know you at all..and I’d ask you…who is Flo fox? what would you say?

Flo: A photographer, an advocate for the disabled, and continuing to work even though I am disabled.

Isabella: what does photography mean to you?

Flo: It’s like recording history, the minute I press that button, I know it’s there forever.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

10/07/2010
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CUTTING THE EDGE: KNOTAN

Well, well,well. Ready to be tossed in a mud of impurity? This is Knotan. Rightly considered “the new king of snapshot” by Let Them Eat Cake magazine.

There’s a power behind his pictures.It’s a striking and mordant galore. You feel the erotism coming out, you blush and then you can even get the stomach ache. There’s a skinny humour in his shots, a skinny proportion of his knuckle body (that’s what Knotan means in Swedish). It’s not the ‘falky’ beautiful of perfect commercials, but it glows anyway. Don’t even think it’s Terry Richardsonesque. His, is an immaculate Scandinavian style. He, is an inconventional pioneer and he’ll shine bright because he is just wonderfully wild.

Author : Isabella Cecconi

10/05/2010
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

TWO WORDS WITH SJON BLACKWELL

Sjon Blackwell defines himself as a psychographer. He lives and works in San Francisco, USA.

Isabella : What do you love and hate about photography?

Sjon: I love it when everything just slows down and I can see the theatrics play out. I kinda get lost for awhile in that.  I’m  a sucker for that drama I guess? I don’t hate anything about photography.

Isabella : Who really is Sjon?…a photographer?

Sjon: I’m the world’s most uninteresting man really. I don’t consider myself a photographer.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

09/29/2010
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

ALBERTO GUGLIELMI: SLEEKER THAN AVERAGE

 

I had the chance to stumble against this Roman photographer’s pictures. I can’t omit the fact that I almost died of envy when I stared at those sea-heaven-on-earth landscapes, those rich colors, the slow idea of movement, the happiness that oozes from the images, the beautiful portraits, the passion that you can feel with the use of colors.  As I got through  his biography, I read: ‘Born in Rome during the years of disco..’.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

09/29/2010
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

EL MAC, ALL AROUND

 ”The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.”  William Faulkner

A Phenomenon.

 Better known for his photo realistic outdoor murals, El Mac is a genius whose art  consists on portraits of ethereal women, people, children. Give him a picture and see what he creates!

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

09/21/2010
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THE FAMILY BUSINESS

 

The art of tattoo and the art of photography.

Put together two genius in the same room: Mr. Fredi Marcarini and Mr. Mo Coppoletta. Give them a location, (London in this case), and a friend in common, Jack Vettriano.

From September the 16th  til the 26th,  The Family Business exhibition, 17 Bulstrode Street, London.

Author : Isabella Cecconi

09/15/2010
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

BRYNNER THE KING

 

The Russian-born actor Yul Brynner became Hollywood’s first bald-headed idol after scoring an Oscar for his King of Siam in the 1956 film version of The King and I. Yul Brynner was an actor, director, musician and photographer.  Brynner is best known for his depiction on stage and screen of King Mongkut in The King and I, for which he won both Academy and Tony Awards or the Ten Commandments , Anastasia , The Buccaneer , The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was a too creative spirit to be typecast, as a new four-volume set of books dedicated to his life as a photographer proves. His subjects are figures of cinematic and stage history. His talent lies in capturing these people at ease, particularly actors.  Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

09/10/2010
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

PHOTOGRAPHERS OR VIDEOMAKERS?

I was 6 and fell in love for the first time. It was squared like me. It was shiny, like I thought I would be. The taste was endless and the joy was pure. I touched it, it touched me. That was how it started. We never parted. No, it wasn’t a third grade party. I wasn’t spinning any bottle. It was  just a Japanese brand that made my head spin, it was my first Canon.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

09/07/2010
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WE FARE THEE WELL, CORINNE 1965-2010

Corinne Day

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

09/03/2010
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BACK INTO VIEW: FLO FOX

 

‘A sassy downtown art star, smart, edgy, bohemian’. This is how in the 80s, appeared to be Flo Fox, a real New York fighter. Flo Fox was born blind in one eye, so, according to her, she was an automatic photographer because she never needed to close an eye to take a picture. She lost the vision in her other eye in 1975 and was declared legally blind at just the time when she had photographed herself nude for Playboy Magazine. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

08/25/2010
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HE IS JUST…DIVINE!

 

IT’S SUMMER, FOLKS!

Why haven’t we talked about beaches yet? How come? I mean it’s the hottest season, where you get naked, you smooth your skin with coconut oil, you gaze the sea waiting for the good wave, the good curl the perfect moment to grab your board and ride! Or shoot..or both in this case..

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

07/30/2010
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UPON ELITISM

Is there something more we might do for the Elitsm? Is there a responsibility on whoever proposes something for an Elite? Now what’s an elite? Is there someone who could here tell me what’s going on? Who’s the chosen one? Is there a ring company? Do I have to subscribe to something? Am I wearing any Sorority pin? I mean, more than what we’re actually doing, my question is, what else can we do about the Elitism? Is there a tag I should be given? Who considers me as an Elite? Do we always have to follow the big new thing, hunting the future or can we consider the past as a big confident mellow chest of drawers which is dozing off in the basement and try to get the answer?

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

07/15/2010
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THE LOVABLE MRS. NEWTON

Fancy a love story? Do you guys need capitol letters for it?LOVE STORY!

I like it better than the Salvador Dalì – Gala one. Maybe cause it’s a photographical love venture, maybe cause it’s flippant and irreverent (maybe cause there’s much more sex and candies in here).

The story starts in Melbourne, Australia. (Sorry I can’t spare you from  my personal pride. Hurray! Go Wallabies!).

Oh well. THE LOVE STORY.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

07/08/2010
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COLORAMA

Imagine a photographic billboard. That’s what Colorama is all about. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

07/02/2010
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

POLAROID, A POPULIST APPEAL, A UNIQUE AUCTION

Are you in search of a Polaroid auction? There has been a lot of controversy lately but It’s your turn to get a unique insight to the Polaroid Collection of Photography. It  is going to take place at Sotheby’s New York on June the 21st and 22nd.

Polaroid. What a magnificent invention. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

06/21/2010
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SNAP SNAP SNAP, JUST SNAP!

Named in honour and loving memory after an abandoned, overgrown plot of land known as Lola Prentice Memorial Park.

The  LOLA New York has been created by using stolen wood from construction sites of nearby houses, a home-made skate-park rose out of nowhere within a month. It was organized, run and enforced by dozens of twelve and thirteen year olds. The park became a legendary refuge and playground for unsupervised youths. Around 1998 it became too popular and boisterous and the police decided shut it down unannounced; destroyed the ramps, dumping gravel over the park and building a police station on the grounds. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

06/10/2010
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ALEC SOTH, COMIC MELANCHOLY

His images can be provocative (but not everly so), his work in colour is an unfussy documentary reproduction. His photography reminds us that it doesn’t happen only between a photographer and a sitter or a subject, but there’s always a viewer.

This is Alec Soth.

A Magnum nominee since 2004. He works on regular assignment for the NY Times, Fortune, Newsweek. A disenchanted follower of all time great photo reporters (I’m referring to Walker Evans, Robert Frank and magnificent ever-lasting – and sincerely my private-love – Stephen Shore. He is a perceiving 41-year-old hunk from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has a great ability to surprise. He is a great socio-political photographer. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

05/31/2010
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FACE PLUS CITY EQUALS FACITY!

In 2008, German photographer Hannes Caspar along with Kerem Ergün, Martin Wunderwald founded Facity. Started as a Berlin project on people’s faces living in the city, it soon became the essence of social networking. On January 2010 it had the official international launch. Details »

Author : Isabella Cecconi

05/19/2010
Category: / THE THIRD EYE