What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) letteralmente significa quel che vedi é quello che hai, si riferisce alla situazione in cui lo schermo del computer riporta un'accurata interpretazione della pagina stampata o del risultato finale; ma é anche una scorciatoia per dire 'prendimi per come sono'.Ho immaginato diverse situazioni in cui vedo indossare icone di lusso o di potere, come amuleti dell'ego. Volevo rendere un effetto da ritratto di strada, con i modelli che indossano metafore volgari, fotografati semplicemente, in una situazione tipo dopo-party, esausti, dove i trucchi lacerati non si confondono con chi li porta e la ...
She wears punk references like 'wearing' a visible diversity, a styled shout. The middle of the scene is like in a studio, white backdrop, light calibrated on the model and the rest rotates around her, like randomly, sometimes overexposed, out of a calibrated intention. They are metaphors for she and the 'others'. I've prepared these scenes including people that participate to the pictures and interact adding meaning to the new enlarged vision against the cropped on the front model ones. All elements are played with visible tricks, as simple metaphors as for a street-theater performance, like strings that are ...
Similalrly Alice experienced an introspective trip into her wonderland, this story is flattened to the layer of the appearence and focused on the 'magic' of mirrors. Edited beauty and style overlap the human. Girls coming from plastic cocoons, wearing mixed colors, here they are seeking to bridge the "to be" with the persona reflected into the mirror or the other.
These pictures of Tyler are simple fashion portraits and conclude the series of pictures with a simple set up, focused on the "here and now". During the last year I wanted to go back to the basics. Photography is powerful because states that whatever you are seeing in a picture really happened, it's sympathetic to the appeal of snaps or polaroids, where imperfections add value to the photograph like an essential parts of the identity, as witnesses of true. So I've chosen to photograph in natural light, almost no make up or hair dressing, a reportage approach focusing on what is happening ...
