Via Miracoli

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]

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]

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]

Tibet – known as the roof of the world. A world out of balance for the last 60 years, imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). HH the Dalai Lama’s non-violent path to come to an agreement with the CCP has been widely covered. But who is the other Tibetan trying to find a way for a better future for Tibet? This project is about the Tibetan community based in London, their journeys and their effort to keep the Tibetan culture alive. [Read More]

Today is the day (or night) I am finally starting to blog for our Re-think assignment. As I have been going to a Tibetan Buddhist Center for a while to study Buddhist philosophy I decided to make a work about the Tibetan community based in London. I got to know Tibetans via Spirituality; therefore, one aspect of my motivation for the project is, to find out who the “other” Tibetans are. [Read More]

Yesterday I wanted to try to do Peter Frasers experiment out doors, it was a sunny day but unfortunately very windy and not warm enough to sit somewhere for 30 minutes… So, I decided to cycle around in East London, not far from where I live, the whole morning already I had this “feeling” that I want to cruise around the streets between Mare Street and London Fields. For me this experiment was more about having the courage to follow the feelings that evolve and make the photos, rather than thinking “oh - this is too banal or it won’t work anyway. [Read More]

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]

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]

“... 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]