Paris Visone
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Paris Visone is a documentary photographer based out of Boston. She graduated from the Art Institute of Boston where she currently teaches. Paris was chosen as a 2010 Getty Images Editorial Photography Grant recipient for her series “Gender Roles and Appearance”. She recently finished touring with and photographing the legendary punk/new wave band, Blondie. Visone is best known for her ever continuing documentary work on her family and friends. She has been featured in multiple publications including AMP magazine, F-stop Magazine, and Performer Magazine. She is currently working on a life long series that follows a group of people through their life.
Personal website: www.parisvisone.com
Gender Roles and Appearance
In this series of photographs, my intention is two-fold. First, is to explore the gender dynamics and sexuality of my subjects. Secondly, I am trying to capture how these dynamics are transformed into “appearances” which my subjects feel they must uphold. These dynamics are preserved as they are passed down from one generation to the next. ”You have to look good.” “You have to be a man.” “You have to look young if you are old, and old if you are young.” “The more muscles you have, the better you are.” These social pressures are a focus in many people’s daily lives. For most people, young and old, maintaining and upholding an “image” has become an obsession. This obsession extends not only to appearance, but also to the gender roles one is imprinted with at a very young age. Throughout the course of their life, the majority of people are trapped in the confines of these roles, most oblivious to the existence of any confines at all. One cannot escape that which he does not see.
There are layers of image-consciousness at work. I am emphasizing the way the subjects want to be perceived, the way the photographer is capturing them, and the way the viewer perceives the image as a whole.
Posted on: May 29th, 2011 by admin
Nadja Groux
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Nadja Groux > “Ma pratique de photographe plasticienne se situe au croisement de l’art et de l’anthropologie puisque je suis aussi anthropologue. Cette discipline donne une direction conceptuelle.
Ma démarche consiste à explorer l’identité en proie à diverses expériences telles que la maladie et la mort, la géographie des origines, le désir et l’ambition…Cette exploration est présentée avec un oeil essentiellement analytique, évitant une sur-esthetisation de l’image.
J’ai également développé l’outil photographique comme mode d’intervention dans le social et j’ai créé des ateliers photographiques citoyens au Moyen-Orient et au Kenya. Leur but étaient de permettre aux participants de s’approprier les outils de création de l’image.
Enfin, j’ai travaille commercialement en particulier a New York…”
127th@StNick
“127th@StNick”, est un projet fait a New York, Harlem par Nadja Groux, qui travaille au croisement de l’anthropologie et de la photographie. Ce projet fait partie des projets laureats de la Bourse du Talent 2010, categorie “architecture et paysage” et sera exposé à la BNF (Paris) a partir du 17 Décembre 2010.
Ce travail est composé d’ une longue série de photos faites au cours de plusieurs années, prises à peu pràs sous le même angle d’une des fenetres de l’appartement de la photographe, d’un meme coin de rue et de ses activites, la 127eme rue et St Nicholas Terrace à New York.
C’est une forme d’observation presque clinique d’un quartier Afro-Americain dans le contexte particulier des 20 dernières années marquées par une rupture dans l’évolution sociale et qui a vu l’écart entre la richesse des noirs et celle des blancs être multiplié par quatre.
La série se lit comme un story board fait de planches contacts avec des photos en close-up placées en alternance et qui rythment la narrative.
L’auteur s’est interessée a décrypter diffèrents aspects de cet espace urbain:
- Ordre plastique et géométrie émotionnelle.
- Placement et organisation de la tension dans l’espace.
- Rapport conceptuel, artistique de situations ordinaires
- Question de la mécanique des pouvoir
- Sequestration/embrigadement spatiale et mentale
- Problématique du rapport de force
- Syndrome de Stockolm
Un autre aspect interessant est la superposition des diffèrents regards sur cet espace:
- Le regard de la ville au travers les helipcoteres de la police et des cameras de surveillance
- Le regards des petits dealers qui passent leurs temps a surveiller la rue
- Le regard de l’auteur au travers de l’appareil photo
- le regard de ceux qui regarderont ces photos.
Posted on: December 9th, 2010 by admin
Eric Kruszewski
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Eric Kruszewski’s love of photography began in 2008 after his travels throughout India. The country’s constant energy, true emotion, vibrant color, and pure culture inspired Eric to capture everyday life. His sense of curiosity and passion for photography take Eric across the globe where he immerses himself in different cultures and illustrates life through the lens. His passion lies in finding simple, beautiful moments in an otherwise busy and complex world. Eric currently lives in America’s Pacific Northwest while he continues to practice his art.
A Slice of America in 14 Days – A Five-Year Revelation Abroad (2005-2010)
From 2005 to 2010, I lived in and wandered throughout 26 countries on 4 continents. During those five years abroad, it was revealed to me that many locals too often developed views on American culture based on satellite television, bootleg movies and the latest music videos. In the early years, discussions revolving around “media-based America” became long-winded and included explanations that would be rewarding only if others were immersed in true, American culture. Very quickly, the long-winded discussions were truncated to simple explanations stating that too many people were only exposed to a slice of America. Thereafter, the new, recurring question from locals became, “Where are the other slices?” Instead of drawn-out discussions, my new, recurring answer became “I promise to show you another slice.”
In July of 2010, I decided to cease living abroad, return to America and embark on a 14-day journey across the country. My goal was to visit regions and smaller sub-cultures that could supplement the views of American culture as a whole. I captured moments revealed to me along a slice of America spanning from east to west.
Posted on: December 6th, 2010 by admin
Francesca Tosarelli
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Francesca Tosarelli is a freelance photographer born in 1984. After a childhood spent in a wild and rural Brazil she developed a passion for travels and the narration through the visual language of photography. Emotionally and politically she is close to social photography and reportage. She has a degree in History of Arts with a thesis about Letizia Battaglia, and enrolled in a photography Master at CFP Bauer in Milan.
She then worked for almost one year with Shobha, a Contrasto reporter. Now she is based in London, where she explores the photojournalistic sphere, and she works in Italy as a photographer for “Pixel” magazine, Ugf.
The rebirth of Coney Island
Coney Island is a legendary place by the seaside, an hour from Manhattan.
At the beginning of the last century this place was called “Sodom by the sea” for its fame to be the base of backers, and of eccentric and extravagant people.
Known for the old fun-fair “Luna Park”, Coney Island was an attraction for its bizzarre shows. In the last years everything changed and the whole area was restructured. The first week of June 2010 saw the opening of the new Luna Park, which became once again a cheap meeting place especially for black and hispanic working classes.
Coney island still beholds a peculiar and extraordinary charm, and is still lived by “contemporary freaks”.
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Posted on: June 24th, 2010 by admin
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