First "serious" book-dummy...

 Posted on 23 October 2011  |  3 minutes (594 words)

… I hope! At last I can look at the Via Miracoli book without having a head ache afterwards! What a nightmare editing is… Last week I attended the lecture held by John E. & Patrick S. on book publishing and one point Patrick mentioned was, that producing a book involves a great deal of STRUGGLE. Hell yes, can I relate to that! Just about everything is difficult in book making; it starts with the beginning of a book which is in a way pure insanity… Which photograph “sucks” the viewer in? [Read More]

Via Miracoli #6 - going abstract

 Posted on 19 September 2011  |  3 minutes (559 words)

Back in the UK for a while now and finally an blog update on the project. As already mentioned during my stay in Napoli the project made a U-turn with my friends decision not to take part in the project. Change is the nature of all things and flexibility is required in the process of producing a work - it was a tricky moment though and at first I was a bit in despair but had to accept the situation… [Read More]

Via Miracoli #5 – Family matters or how to make portraits of the kids

 Posted on 3 June 2011  |  1 minutes (164 words)

I was having a photo session with Viola, the daughter of Simona and Roberto, she is one little crazy person! And super confident in front of the camera. She was clearly enjoying to be photographed and was playing with her plastic creatures and “Dracula denti”… We made some rather unusual portraits of her but Simona and Roberto approved them… The boys joined in too, they were wearing “A clockwork orange” t-shirts and we had a good session together. [Read More]

Via Miracoly #4 – First photo shoot

 Posted on 3 June 2011  |  2 minutes (416 words)

I went out with Simona for some shopping and I managed to make a date with the well known fruit’n’veg shop called “La Primizia”, Tuesday morning 11am will be the first official shooting for the project! Finally! Things are moving slowly, it’s not that easy to approach people in order to enter their private/intimate spaces! So, to photograph a fruit and veg shop might be the right start! At 11am I was at the shop and Antonio, with whom we spoke yesterday, was welcoming me warmly. [Read More]

Via Miracoli #3 – First steps & digital pinhole experiments

 Posted on 3 June 2011  |  3 minutes (446 words)

Finally - the first encounter with Via Miracoli. I was going up and down, “inspecting” the street, the house walls, looking out for details, snapping around a bit. It proved to be more complicated than expected… Neapolitans are a curious people and I was regularly approached, they wondered what I am doing here… I was dragged along to see a very very interesting thing… it was a religious altar.. I realized that I have to be quite firm in order to complete this project and not get too involved with interactions of residents of the street… I happen to come across a young woman looking outside a Basso on a little side street of Via Miracoli; to me she looked like a Saint! [Read More]

Via Miracoli #2 – Defeated!

 Posted on 3 June 2011  |  1 minutes (96 words)

Lettieri is out of the game and de Magistris is in office since 1st of June 2011! The atmosphere in Napoli is calmer, the rubbish gets collected regularly, the question is for how long..?! But over all it’s a win for the city and the voters made clear that the Berlusconi party is highly unpopular, though not only in Napoli but across the country. I do hope there will be a major political change in the near future… [Read More]

Via Miracoli #1 - Neapolitan Realities

 Posted on 27 May 2011  |  3 minutes (449 words)

So, here I am in Napoli! And this is now my reality for the next 6 weeks… time is passing fast, I vividly remember the start of the Masters but now we are already working on our major projects! Earlier on in May Napoli has been in the news once more; there was again a huge problem with the rubbish, “Munnezza” as it is called in Neapolitan dialect, and the issue is still unresolved. [Read More]

Impossibly!Beautiful - photo film

 Posted on 13 January 2011  |  3 minutes (515 words)

http://vimeo.com/18593029 Since its closure in 1988 decay has transformed the prison on the island of Procida into a space inhabited by many patterns. A bizarre beauty reveals itself through the stark contrast between this space of patterns and the prisons dark past. This photo film focuses on the impermanence of that which is regarded as solid and unchangeable - a prison slowly transforms and past human actions dissolve. *** This is a short photo film for the assignment on multimedia. [Read More]

(After)words on xmas day

 Posted on 25 December 2010  |  5 minutes (862 words)

Not so long ago, more precisely on the 9th of Dec 2010, London’s soil was trembling. Students and many others were marching together to show their discontent with the proposed raise of tuition fees & HE cuts. But the march wasn’t only for that, its underlying message was also to oppose the current cold wind blowing from Westminster. The newly elected coalition government is cutting budgets in all (im)possible areas and so threatening the common UK people of their basic existence. [Read More]

Impossibly.Beautiful

 Posted on 7 October 2010  |  5 minutes (893 words)

“... Then a long, slow wasting away of body and mind on the island of Procida, of which little but blood-chilling legends was known”. Norman Lewis, Naples '44 Procida – Lewis is writing in his book about a, by now abandoned, prison on the beautiful island of Procida in the gulf of Naples. One part of the prison was originally a castle, built in the 16th Century by Innico d'Avalos, who was an Aragonese general, it was named 'Castello d'Avalos'. [Read More]