Analogue Photography
In the photo community in its whole, not just among professionals (vexata quaestio would also be how to define a professional photographer … anyway … ), it has become more interesting the role of film photography, extensively called analogue photography.
I am happy to share this little pearl of wisdom captured on the CNN channel
I am personally reintroducing in my professional documenting practice the use of film, it has actually been a process that started a few years ago and now I am still working on each project on how to fit together film and digital in a single stream of images.
The quality is different, it would be like an industrially made fabric and a handwoven one, the imperfections and the tridimensional depth of the latter makes it an inadmissible parallel.
I am not blaming the digital revolution, I use its immediacy for most of my commercial work, but I am happy and proud when I can hold a negative against the light to mentally convert the blacks into white, the dark areas into light areas and forsee the final image.
“Everything that is very simple it has to be sloppy you can’t be too sloppy in analogue photography because it takes time, it takes effort it takes concentration” – Elliot Erwitt -
Let’s share the imperfections and efforts of analogue photography, it’s about life.
A tribute to my teacher
©KEVO.biz - anatomy studies
Some people liked my drawings so far, that’s why I am writing this little piece, to aknowledge the person that helped me develop my drawing skills, his name is Rodolfo Bargelli, you won’t find him on google, he is pretty allergic to all the new technological development, he is not old, he is just too busy.
He wasn’t my teacher, but I knew he was super good at teaching, so I approached him in the corridors of my University (many years ago, too many) and I asked him if he could help me out.
I remember going through all the basics I never had a chance to really study, learn the anatomical details, getting pretty familiar with all the difficulties of the anatomy: feet, hands, head, torso, legs, arms etc etc
Rodolfo has been great and always present, everytime I was hesitant about a technique or a tool, he was there.
One of the things that made me extremely proud was that I ended up being a colleague of him, teaching photography for the Polimoda Fashion School.
Ok that’s it for today, but I guess you need just a few words, actually just two: THANK YOU.
ARCHIVE – Cowboys and Photojournalists
Kenneth Jarecke gives a clear idea of the future of photography, although he is talking about photojournalism, his point can be applied to any field of the photographic world.
the whole article tries to answer a few questions:
“Is photojournalism dying? it’s golden era is gone, what can be the next step?”
the analogy with the cowboy mithology is hitting the target, a whole nation’s identity is based on a lifestyle that did not last more than 20 years.
People are still looking at the iconic identity of the photojournalist that was a direct product of magazines like LIFE and LOOK that did not last a lot longer than the cowboy’s lifestyle.
Click here to read the article on the New York Times website