at work...

together with my assistant...

ph. by matteo casari

ph. by matteo casari

they said "big snow"

actually it wasn't.
but today i had a lot of fun, wandering around genoa's port together with francesco giunta, great photographer and friend.

anna positano at triennale di milano

I am really pleased to announce that my work is showcased in the
exhibition "L’architettura del Mondo. Infrastrutture, mobilità, nuovi
paesaggi" at Triennale in Milan. The show starts today 9th october and ends on 10th
february. At the bookshop you can find a nice, thick catalogue which
includes my work as well.

By the way, I have a new website, kindly refurbished by grooppo.org. I am
still uploading photographs and texts, but please, feel free to check it
out!

www.theredbird.org

mansion on the hills

well, actually these are council houses in my hometown... this work will be in a book, coming out next months.

paris ordinary 2012, pt. 3

oui, paris again!

btw i pushed this poor rollei 25 iso film, that's why these photos have a high contrast...

paris, ordinary 2012 pt.two

jardin des tuileries and auntie eating a banana. 

rome, without you...

last week i went to rome for a commission at EUR. the building site is definitely amazing and i'm really happy with my photographs. for now i'm posting just a few images i took in the surroundings...

adalberto libera, palazzo dei congressi

fountain, next to the EUR headquarter

giovanni guerrini, ernesto lapadula, mario romano, palazzo della civiltà italiana

the shard

today renzo piano's shard is open to the public. this is the tallest tower in europe.

h12.10, saturday: fry-up pt.2

one month ago i was in london for a commission. i don't particularly like central london, however on saturdays the city can be surreal and beautiful.

holiday pt.2

gardening at chris's

holiday pt.1

... actually a friend's place for the summer. in my ears the sound of civil civic's  run overdrive.

h12.10, saturday: fry-up

heavy raining outside, then i stopped for a break in a golf club/community centre in leyton and had a proper (vegetarian) breakfast. on the left: my tough schedule.

springtime by the sea

freshly scanned...

wilderness

unexpected rendez-vous.

mother

this is a portrait of my mother i took a couple of years ago with my 5x4" view camera in natural light. i'm quite sure she will complain because i haven't photoshopped her wrinkles. she's a beautiful woman indeed.

progetto QD updates

progetto QD offers a view of ordinary italian landscapes and people. posted on progetto QD, this is a self-portrait i took 30 minutes after an invasive (and successful) dental treatment. half of my face was paralyzed by anaesthetics...

crossing-over

this is me, offering portraits for free. pic by matteo casari

this is a series of animated GIFs, starting from portraits i took in quartiere della maddalena, in genova, during a site specific performance. this place best represents the multicultural prerogative of this town: it is a crowded crossroads in which people of different ages, professions, ethnicities and statuses converge. there i offered portraits for free, during a week day afternoon waiting for people to ask for a portrait. in return i would have sent the portrait as a gift. the action triggered a relational situation not only between the artist and the portrayed, but also among the bystanders, who called other people and invited them to strike a pose. the spirit of this place – a melting pot – is reproduced in the form of the GIF file, as it is the simplest, minimal way to juxtapose two different characters in a dialectical way.

on our way to corse, and back pt.1

some of paris, ordinary

paris, ordinary (2011) is a work in progress on ordinary landscape and people in paris.

these are some lovely people in paris,  ten months ago. i'm looking forward to going there again.

exhibition at FRAC corse

once you have your invitation for the private view, you are safe!