#Light

We started the New Year with a wonderful talk by Peter Fraser - it was truly inspiring to see his work and to listen how he experiences photography. At the end Peter asked us to do the following experiment: choose a safe place sit or stand for 30 minutes, eyes closed as soon as you open your eyes make photos of what you feel & not what you see… [Read More]

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]

“... 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]