New gallery in Brasil: Pixel
Signed a contract with Brasilian gallery Pixel to sell my urban exploration photographs of abandoned places.
Personal exposition “Antarctica” at Fotogalerie im Blauen Haus, Munich
I’m preparing a personal exposition with 26 pictures from my Antarctica portfolio at Fotogalerie im Blauen Haus, Munich, Germany. The show will be on display from February 18th to March 26th 2011.
More information on the exposition in an article on CO-mag.
Fotogalerie im Blauen Haus gallery representation
I’m now represented by a gallery in Munich, Germany, called Fotogalerie im Blauen Haus.
The gallerist is also a photographer: Nick Hermanns, so you may want to check his work too.
Ladurée sucré awarded best design coockbook in the world 2010
Some times ago I did all the retouching for a Ladurée recipe book with photos by food photographer and good friend Sophie Tramier.
The book has been awarded best design cookbook in the world at the gourmand world cookbooks award 2010.
You may also be interested in Sophie Tramier interview on Co-mag.
Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards 2009
I partecipated to the International Photography Awards with some photos from Antarctica, The palaces of the soul, and Demons portfolios. All of them passed through the first of three rounds in the
jurying process and are now an Official Selection of the 2009 International Photography Awards.
The Antarctica photos also passed the second round, becoming an Honorable Mention and are eligible to compete for the third and final round to determine the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners.
Demons and Palazzi dell’Anima at Art Madrid
Some pictures of the series Demons and some of the series Places of the Soul are exposed in Art Madrid from 12 to 16 february by the gallery Manel Mayoral.
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts bought Antarctica photos
The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts bought some photos from Antarctica for its permanent collection.
The prints will be exposed in Kiyosato at the beginning of the next year during the young portfolio exhibition.
Two photos on italian National Geographic
During the National Geographic 2008 photo contest, two photographs from Antarctica were selected for publication on the italian National Geographic web site.
The selected shoots are sunset in Marambio and emperor penguin.
Citations from Giacomo Costa interview on his new book
Is about to be published a new big book that tells the whole story of the agglomerations by Giacomo Costa. The Chronicles of Time, 260 pages, is published by Damiani editore.
In the book there will two important texts: one by Sir Norman Foster and the other by Luca Beatrice (the curator of the Italy pavilion at the next Venice Biennale). Beatrice in his own text mentions some extracts from the interview with Giacomo Costa I wrote for Camera Obscura.
You may also want to read my review of The Chronicles of Time.
New Camera Obscura layout
Several people during the last months asked me to modify the Camera Obscura page layout.
The current improvements includes: lighter page backround for easy reading, no tree photo header, bigger comments fonts, less evident meta and navigations controls, faster pages.