vernacular, park slope - greenpoint

landscape

iphone IV

iphone III

iphone II

iphone I

Approaching the highline, third part

Approaching the highline, second part

Approaching the High Line

mural_DUMBO

he must be italian

on the road

No excuses

Don't use the broken shoulder as an excuse to not still shooting, Frank said.

And he's right, for now I scanned and color correct, but I'll keep shooting soon. Maybe now.

forced vacation, no picture for now (I'll find a way to shoot in any case)

she was there

I can't really see well from here

come in

in between

Late afternoon hunt

check mate

you'll disappear

stop

Under control

It's a cube

you are free

marcela at night

eating drinking

marco cataldo sunny sophie

grace plaza

Sunny Jc

marcela

portfolio's portaits

freedom

inside ouside_different views from the same spot

NY...two months of rain

welcome in Italy

http://napoli.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/6482639

(only in italian yet)

ICP Exhibition

an unofficial flyer, but I like more the layout

A studio_by alec soth

ok, you thought you have a nice place where to do your stuff...have a look. It's not so different from my one, at least we have a mattress in common.

http://www.whatsthejackanory.com/2009/04/inside-the-photographers_studio-4/

Assistant, car, Bruce.

thank u Julie

www.visuramagazine.com/vm/

a much better in deep view on the NYPF.

Also a great on line magazine...with jeff jacobson columnist for example...

from my window II

Few links from photographers exhibited at the NYPH

http://www.kunstagenten.de/Neue_Dateien/01_artist/lehmannbrauns/lehmann_work_overview.html

http://www.philippschaerer.ch/e/w-bildbauten-2.html

http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artist,show,3,9,164,784,0,0,0,0,tiina_itkonen_iceberg_ii,_.html

http://www.ph0.ch/nomadess.html

http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artist,show,3,9,164,787,0,0,0,0,tiina_itkonen_house_iii,_.html



The festival itself was ... quite ... kind of ... I mean ... you know... but it could be better for sure

http://www.nyphotofestival.com

just a quick note, I went to pavillon n.1-2-4, some interesting stuff: Edith Maybin in n.2 ( http://edithmaybin.com/about.htm ) , she is strong, a lot. In the pavillon n. 4 there is the collective exhibition curated by John Levi, Home For Good, with the work of
Venetia Dearden ( http://www.venetiadearden.com/main.htm ) , I love love her, it's one of the few time when I really see the need of using a camera to tell something, maybe because it's about emotions. Of course you can find the opposite way of using a camera in the same pavillon, please discover it by your selves.

to be continued...

Thoughts

http://www.pressefotografforbundet.dk/index.php?id=11708
http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2009/04/denmark.html

It's an interesting story about photoshop...

I don't see anything new to be honest, in photoshop you can of course change a lot of stuff, and people get scandalized for this. What about in the darkroom? So for me the problem is not only ethical, but even before it's about aesthetic (photographers are supposed to be quite good in aesthetic, not so obvious in ethic). Even if you don't have a judge that disapproves your workflow you should realize that pushing at the maximum color contrast and saturation means almost nothing, you can just have a really bad picture (sure, at least full of color, but who cares)

Park Slope R&B

New Yorkers {work in progress}

West Village

Stefania

East New York

Lower East Side

Daniel

Chelsea

Delfina&James

Chelsea

another trip

This car is made for travel

Foto da prima pagina - the first page of the NYT 3/10/09...terrible

questa foto era la prima pagina del NYtimes del 10 marzo 2009. E' stata discussa durante il seminario con Nina Berman, da cui e' stata lodata e apprezzata per la sua bellezza e per la capacita' di sintesi. Bene. La foto e' stata scattata da Todd Heisler, uno molto bravo, ma nonostante questo la foto proposta presenta molti aspetti inspiegabili. La sintesi: il governatore del New Jersey viene ripreso in una posa traballante e insicura. Secondo Nina Berman questo elemento e' di una potenza incredibile, addirittura rende la sensazione che l'uomo stia per cadere e si arregga all'atro, che per risposta nemmeno ricambia l'abbraccio. Volendo forzare le cose si puo' anche vedere cosi'. Volendo invece essere piu' neutrali si potrebbe dire che la foto non gode di grandi doti dinamiche, che la posizione del governatore e' si precaria, ma non estrema a tal punto da giustificare un'interpretazione cosi specifica. L'abbraccio non ricambiato potrebbe essere banalmente il momento successivo di un abbraccio appena concluso. Mi sembra che questa foto sia uscita da una serie di scatti in serie di un solito momento e che sia stata presa, utlizzata e interpretata da un editor per farla combaciare con il senso dell'articolo, senza che questa abbia particolari spunti estetici.

upper east side

thought

Henri Cartier-Bresson famously said, "The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks." But I don't think the world would have been a better place if these photographers had headed off to a war zone. The question is whether you can be a political photographer while you photograph rocks. My pictures don't have a specific social commentary but I think they have social and political meaning.
--Alec Soth

A dream_for Amy Arbus (car reprise, the effect of thinking too much about landscape and large format)

dreaming a trip_reprise

Williamsburg

First shoots with the 4x5, greenwood cemetery&self portrait

Giuseppe Moccia

Sophie Paris for Amy Arbus

A domestic trip, with jeff jacobson

Traces

Fall 08 in Staten Island

From my windows, park slope / williamsburgh

Scratches

at work_ICP Workshop with Anthony Hamboussy / Large Format Cameras

night, snow

Matilde's exhib in Soho

ICP Party in Queens

la quarta e' di giuseppe moccia, quello li', quello famoso dei matrimoni
la quinta e' di valentina

Unseen New York/Picture making

i love the idea to show ny in other ways instead of the classic sterotypes. New york means nothing, it's a lot of different things, and the city in manhattan is the smallest part. These pictures are taken in Staten Island, which is a very attractive place, a little far away from where I am living now.

Obama's night election

just few pictures, taken in Times Sq

Obama's night election

just few pictures, taken in Times Sq

Giorgia Fiorio assignment

I decided to take some portraits at the subway stop, Lorimer/MLine, from the morning to the evening

Picture Making I / by James Trory

Pictures taken by my classmate James Trory.
His website: www.jamestrory.com

ICP assignment_Picture Making III / news in the streets

A group of grandmothers protests against the war every wednesday on 5th Av, in front of Rockfeller Plaza, since January 14-2004, from 4:30 to 5:30 every wednesday of the year, great.

http://www.grandmothersforpeace.org/gatw

ICP assignment_Picture Making II / working in the street

Not my preferite assignement, anyway. As consequence I didn't do anything particular, this is the guy who clean out of the Grace Palace, which is good of course, but just out of ICP

flash attempts

ICP assignment_Pictures Making I_Environmental Portrait _ Annie Ling / Chinatown

Italians

ICP

The road to IKEA

Sanguinetti exhibition

Alessandra Sanguinetti, (ex ICP, new Magnum) shown @ Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea, great work. http://alessandrasanguinetti.com/
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/ales_sang/

Roof - The Terrace

amazing place! for party, for smooking, for everything...even a good place to sleep during the summer, I think you can stay there with a sleepingbag in 40/50 people...

Breakfast

Lorimer Station Line M Brooklyn

Welcome pack

welcome pack from ICP, a fantastic book about student's work of 2007-08, magazines, accessories, among quite useless things...but it get you think about stayng in a community, that's nice.

The end of the summer in Versilia (still waiting fo a visa)

NEWS! www.filippobrancolipantera.com

buen camino

For all those who were on the Camino with me, please go on this link: http://buencamino2008.blogspot.com/