PHOTO CLASSES
PHOTO CLASSES
I still recall my Middle Eastern experience as one of the most enlightening ones, I had the chance to access a small portion of the Jordanian society from a privileged path, getting to know people that I felt extremely close.
I have recently received the pics taken during the class, I wish I could be back in Amman.
Inshallah!
Many thanks to Dina Seisah, that was patient enough to follow the whole course and take all the pictures.
Livorno 2012
I know I haven’t added any sort of comment, but it’s late, enjoy the pics and welcome the article when it’ll eventually come, in the near future.
New Year’s Eve 2012
When you find yourself among people you basically don’t know, but you don’t feel out of place, think of it this way: it’s their gift to you. Their gift of hospitality of being “catapulted” into another world you don’t belong to, a reality that unexpectedly opens up to you as your photographic eye was welcome to capture bits of life of another circle, completely diverse from the one you belong to. Similar body language eventually, but different intensity.
It was extremely cold outside, the frozen air was blowing my hairs off as I tried to look at the village called “Le Rose”.
Inside the tiny dining room a small crowd was loudly chatting trying to share the contentment for the new year.
The noise was overwhelming and I reached the door to part from that.
The poetry of the dark, black night was unbearable due to the -10 degrees Celsius that made me think of Finland or Siberia.
Suggested soundtrack: Adam Hurst, Midnight Waltz from the album “Ritual”
Christmas 2011
Christmas is over, we have been through the eating, the feasting and wishing.
Food is what actually absorbs us so much we definitely long for an intestinal rest.
Although fantastic we definitely feel a bit tired. But the deep warm coloured sky is what we really need at the end of the day.
PF #7.9 – Opening and videos!
Ok beautiful people, here we are, a whole bunch of visitors has come on the first day and we are super happy!!! thank you all!
Ok bella gente, eccoci qua, già nella prima giornata siamo stati inondati da un flusso continuo di visitatori, grazie a tutti e tornate in questi giorni, sia oggi sabato 10 Dicembre che domani domenica 11.
I visitatori si sono intrattenuti con gli artisti e con le curatrici, Federica Faraone e Petra Brezackova, nel desiderio e nella curiosità di vedere le opere anche attraverso il racconto di chi le ha messe al mondo e le ha viste nascere.
Qui sotto le interviste con gli artisti
Private Flat
Is there anything better than collaborating on the same project?
Probably not, it’s one of the best experiences ever, working, pizza break, working, feeling sleepy, parting from each other.
Tomorrow … another day, another working day, with the curators and fellow artists Mirta Paglini and Virginia Lopez.
Today is my day. Idee di mondi possibili
a cura di Petra Březačkova e Federica Faraone
looking forward for the opening!
What are you looking up to?
“Deh … ‘sa guardi ‘nzù, ‘sa c’è ‘n’ UFO?” (thick accent from Livorno)
“What are you looking up to? a UFO?”
“Oh well, just astonished by the umbrella pine tree, we don’t have that many especially this big in Florence”
“Deh .. bellina ‘uesta’n ch’aveo mai penzato … deh’n effetti a Firenze di grossi ‘osì nemmanco ar parco delle ‘Ascine …”
“Well … nice call, I have never thought of it that way … you must be right in Florence you don’t have that many not even at the Cascine (i.e. famous public park in Florence)”
A pocket camera and a couple of shots of the surrounfidings in an autumnal morning.
CARNAGE
Broken armchair, leftovers on the floor, leaves brought in by the wind, people taking off their shoes during the show as if they were at home, a big private home theatre.
The biggest home theatre you may ever wish for, the feeling of sharing a place that is known to a recognizable breed of customers, that probably come in with long scarves, stripey socks and trendy glasses with a vintage frame and flavour.
Today Carnage was the choice.
The movie suffers a bit from being an acclaimed play by Yasmina Reza , that has been adapted for a feature film, in a time of huge productions though it’s extremely nice for a director to rely upon the actor’s skills to keep the attention alive and while I have found Foster’s performance a bit too over the caricature side of a stressed woman, I have definitely appreciated the measured role and acting of Kate Winslet.
To be watched in English to fully appreciate the voices of this international co-production.
UMBRIA
UMBRIA
the ugly stuff was the theme of the previous post, nothing farthermost from that than this: Umbria is nature at it’s greenest meaning.
Hinc albi, Clitumne, greges et maxima taurus
victima, saepe tuo perfusi flumine sacro,
romanos ad templa deum duxere triumphosPublio Virgilio Marone, Georgiche, Libro II, vv. 146-148
Many different kind of animals, but no calves, cows or bulls around anymore, truth is, Italy has changed since the first Century BC.
DIRT
DIRT
“Well what am I gonna photograph, everything around here is so ugly …”
“Photograph the ugly stuff”
Mrs Eggleston talking about how William Eggleston started his peculiar photographic journey.
“The picture was good, out of focus, but good” – David Lynch about his portrait taken by William Eggleston
I guess some may be out of focus, some may be interesting, some may not, but this were the selected items found on the ground of Luna Park deserted by day and probably crowded at night.
In Pistoia, in 2009.