costanza de rogatis
1/19/2012
1/13/2012
^°^ Landscape of a possible condition - Tommaso Fiscaletti ^°^
Tommaso Fiscaletti was born in Cattolica (RN) in 1981. Lives and works in Milan as a photographer for the publishing and the adv, working assiduously to personal projects.
In 2001, he began to work as a photographer in a studio and also does reportage in North Africa and Eastern Europe. A
few years after his work evolves in a different language, which tries
to speak about the Man in relation to the Environment in which he lives
and the Nature. Through portraits and landscapes, the need is to highlight the inherent reality to a deeper level. He
searches for answers starting right from himself, from his affections,
through projects such as "All Over Me" and "Suspended intimacy." Here the intent is to decipher, through photography, the complex structure of relationships between people. The staging and the drama are aimed at understanding the characters, often relatives or friends. In his work is very evident that the Man was at a certain point in having to deal with Nature. The
magnificence of it can become the tool for reflection and also the only
true inner refuge, as in "Landscape of a possible condition", "Mute" or
"The Missing Part".
His
work has been exhibited in various exhibitions and fairs in the field
of art, both in Italy and abroad and has won several awards. In 2011, he founded along with Alice Marrollo "LeaFlood", to carry out projects that arise from the constant comparison between the two.
___Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs___
What images represent typically American sceneries? The starting point for the photo series 'The Great Unreal', a project on which the two photographers from Zurich worked from 2005 to 2009, was a scholarship from the City of Zurich. This scholarship allowed the two men to work in New York for a year. From New York, they made numerous trips through the country. Fascinated by the seemingly endless landscapes, they strove to connect the mythological 'America' pictures in our heads with the everyday images that they encountered on the roadside. Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato, who completed their degree in photography at the ZHdK in 2005 and who have been working together since 2003, built models and used illusion tricks of the type known from Hollywood movies. In the background of one photograph, caravans can be seen, loosely grouped to form a settlement, and next to them giant cacti, palm trees and telephone masts. A typical 'American' picture bathed in atmospheric light of the type we seem to recall from films. But in the foreground, there is a gaping abyss which fills the entire lower quarter of the picture ('Abyss'). In addition to such fabricated images, in which reality is combined with models, the photographer duo has decided to also include a series of 'straight' images which are not 'faked' in any way. The effect is astounding: all of a sudden, one does not trust the 'real' pictures anymore, thinks that they too are artificial and fabricated, and this is what the title 'The Great Unreal' alludes to. A highway weaving its way through several rolling hills seems to stretch out into the barren landscape endlessly ('Map'): is this how the view presented itself to the photographers, or did they construct it as a model? In some pictures, the duo reveals its trick box: the model of a country road is seen sitting on a tripod in front of a mountainous country road. Viewers experience particular pleasure when the photographers thus reveal their playful approach to reality and fiction. The photography book 'The Great Unreal' was published by Edition Patrick Frey in 2009.
Peter Stohler
tonk
1/12/2012
+++ Charlie Crane +++
His work has been widely exhibited, including several pieces at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and honors include a Kodak Gold Award for portrait photography.
In 2007, Crane had work on display at Bloomberg New Contemporaries, was the winner of the IPA Lucie’s Deeper Perspective award, was included in 2007’s Flash Forward Emerging Photographers and published a book titled Welcome to Pyongyang (Chris Boot Publisher).
Crane is currently living and working in London.
charlie crane
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