ANALOGICA SELECTION 2014 // PHOTO
26, 27, 28 sept.
26, 27, 28 sept.
ANIMA ANIMUS by Claudia Moroni ( UK ) 2013 - // Horseman 450 // 5x4 Fomapan 100 B&W Anima Animus is a long term project exploring the borderline of gender. The first part of this project is a series of black and white portraits of trans* people living in the UK. Each model has undertaken a journey, transitioning from the sex they were assigned at birth to the gender they identify with. All portraits have been shot on film with a large format camera, taking advantage of the Scheimpflug principle to narrowly focus on the models' eyes. This stylistic choice is a visual response to the media's tendencies to only focus on trans* people bodies, virtually erasing their identities." Claudia Moroni is an Italian award-winning portrait photographer, living and working in London. Her photographs have been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. With a background in Fine Arts thanks to her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Claudia has a keen interest in the craft of analogue photography, shooting on film with a range of 35mm, medium and large format cameras and printing most of her work in a traditional darkroom. When she's not writing about herself in the third person Claudia likes cooking vegan food, daydreaming and jumping in waterfalls. www.ClaudiaMoroni.co.uk |
LOST IN THE ELEMENTS by Benedetta Falugi (IT)
2011 / 2013 // 35mm // Fuji superia 400 ISO In this series, natural elements are not set as scenic backgrounds, but rather as protagonists. Places chosen for this series are not characterized by someone's presence - on the contrary, it is the surroundings that characterize people, giving the whole series a greater of meaning and a sense of unity. Subjects are photographed from the back or form the distance not for the purpose of blurring out human individuality, but to extend it beyond limits, so that any viewer can identify himself or herself in the subjects. Benedetta Falugi is an indipendent photographer based in Tuscany, Italy. She approached photography in a rather casual way. This meeting is striking, become more and more intense and the photographer quickly refines its own language, its own recognizable style. Once she found out about this passion, she studied photography through various workshops and as an autodidact. At the same time Falugi started her personal research which is aimed at the places of the heart and people living there. Her clean style, the choice of warm colors and enchanting atmospheres characterize her works, she has the ability to reach the heart of both the subjects she portrays and of beholders. Her work, made mostly in analog, on film, shows a great ability to capture the essence of things by watching without disturbing which allows the artist to implement a continuous research, lowering in the situations with the careful eye of those who can go beyond the apparent and of who, from time to time, has the ability to penetrate into other worlds. Her work has been published in several online and printed magazines and showed in various exhibitions.Her photographs are represented by Art + Commerce NewYork-PhotoVogue Collection. http://www.benedettafalugi.com |
MIRAGE by Yolenth van den Hoogen (NL)
2013 // image2 by Polaroid The serie ‘Mirage’ captures the senses of light in different perspectives. The echoes of past, present and future are connected through palpable mirages. The light becomes an entity that is possible to touch... Yolenth van den Hoogen is a photographer based in Amsterdam. She first completed her study as a textile designer and worked as a stylist for photography for many magazines, brands and campains, as well as a costume designer for film. Her fascination for structures and rhythms in patterns she found back in photography of landscapes. She started to work on polaroid with a technical camera to capture the origin of perception. Today she also works with digital photography and travels to find parallel worlds: how do we perceive reality and how we try to create order and disorder in an imaginary mindscape. How do we let the viewer dive into the heart. Despite the fact that a photograph is made with the eye and the hand, Yolenth van den Hoogen uses the heart as the ultimate connection. www.yolenth.com |
the exhibition is supported by Heinrich Wegmann
printed in Bolzano (IT) www.smeidart.com
printed in Bolzano (IT) www.smeidart.com