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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Harry Gruyaert on colour
-> Harry Gruyaert on colourFor more than thirty years, from Belgium to Morocco, and from India to Egypt, Harry Gruyaert has been recording the subtle chromatic vibrations of Eastern and Western light. While at Galleria illy in Istanbul, we asked him what role colour plays in his photography - knowing full well that the answer could only be in favour of the importance of colo...
continue..Yellow is the colour of nostalgia
-> Yellow is the colour of nostalgiaAs a child, I loved flipping through the family photo albums and looking at the old photos, first black and white, then in colour, of my grandparents, distant ancestors, cousins I never met, family friends, my parents' younger selves. Although great-grandpa's handlebar moustache was a lot of fun, I always lingered longer on a series of photos of my...
continue..Photographing in Angal’s hospital with “Informatici senza Frontiere”
-> Photographing in Angal’s hospital with “Informatici senza Frontiere”In a rural hospital in Angal, in the northern reaches of Uganda, administrators are using computers to track patient and pharmacy data thanks to an Italian no-profit, “Informatici senza Frontiere” (techies without borders). This charity strongly believes that access to the technologies of information and communication are essential to economic ...
continue..The Polytechnic University
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisMilan’s Polytechnic was chosen in 1993 as the location for Italy's first-ever degree course in Industrial Design. The history of the Industrial Design degree (at the Faculty of Design since June 2000) has been marked by a sustained interest in trying out new and innovative course structures, as a response to the real needs of the contemporary mar...
continue..SVA. School of Visual Arts in New York City
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallySchool of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City was founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, with 35 students and three instructors. Today, SVA is one of the leading visual arts colleges in the U.S., with a student body of over 3,000 undergraduates, 400 graduate students and 2,200 continuing education students from almost every stat...
continue..Freed passion
Magazine -> #4 PassionA quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history. Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet. Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
continue..Experimentation, creation, art
Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboardsExperimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life. The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...
continue..Experience
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationI remember the first designs we used to prepare at Central Saint Martins College, when the briefs (author's note: design instructions) consisted of threefour words randomly picked by our tutors. We would start working in small groups, not knowing each other: at that stage it was impossible to have any prejudices or dislikes. For the same reason, th...
continue..A snapshot on the city
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisOver time, I have learned to observe with the eye of a detective, or someone who wants to gather documentary evidence, avoiding a critical spatial dimension. This means that my impressions are highly subjective, the same as any curious person's. Curiosity about places, different landscapes, far-flung destinations, what I saw as a child, the wonde...
continue..The self-portrait experience
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitIn front of a cup of coffee. In the digital era self portraiture enables anyone to produce a work of art instinctively, without knowing anything about photography. I have been using this technique for several years, with children, adolescents and adults from all walks of life, helping them to make self portraits using my own camera, or letting t...
continue..Taking time to look
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitWhat do you think of self-portraiture in the self-timer mode in photography? Well, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear a picture’s been shot that way is “vanity”; anyone having recourse to such a technique is out to show himself at his appealing best. Mind you, that’s understandable because we all implicitly reject the image we ...
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