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The person who is talking in the interview is an older version of myself, who has become a director, and has just took the photoshoot (the pictures in the article). I saw that in the interview that I’ve base mine on, some details weren’t clear and know by everyone, so I decided to do the same thing, mentioning details about my hipotetical future life without really analyzing them.
The white borde on the internal side of the page is meant to look like if the pages where ripped from a magazine.
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This is the interview from which I took inspiration from, as in graphic style, font style and rhythm from. Rhythm as what the tone of the conversation what between the two people. It was informal and the question had various topics, but the each question was connected to the answer before it. I also copied the comments from the interviewer (he put the in brackets during the answers sometimes). They where also talking about new projects, inspiration and teen-age life so I decided to include that.
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Final print: 6 pages in total, double sides.
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Benny on Transformation
We met the young director Benny in London, to talk about their new campaign Transformation.
When you started to become interested in fashion?
« I think it happened very recently. I mean, I don’t think that I have that much interest in it. I’ve never studied fashion or anything, I just like to have good-looking things surrounding me. You know, my mum was an interior designer years ago, and I am pretty sure that I took my taste from her. But I think I got gradually more close to the whole ‘fashion thing’ when I started to study cinema. You see, I started to look at red carpets, pictures, press conferences, to look at what the actors and actresses were wearing, and of course almost all of them did some sort of modelling work or interview for some fashion magazine.»
Talking about actors and actresses, any favorite ones?
« I think that’s a tricky question, cause I keep changing my preferences. If you asked me this question a couple of years ago, I would have said Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Emma Watson .»
A lot of British artists then?
« Yeah I know, but in that period I was watching an awful lot of blockbuster and Hollywood movies and at the same time I was amazed by London. Then, when I started to study History of Cinema at high-school, my taste became more ‘indie-oriented’. This led to a teen-age me with a big crush on Tilda Swinton, particularly by seeing Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lynne Ramsay. Can you imagine a small teen watching her movies while having doubts about his sexuality? It was so confusing. (breaks into a small laugh) Anyway, I think it was around that time when I was also becoming interested in red carpets and awards ceremonies. Also I found out about the whole world behind the scenes of a movie, like props and costumes, and I guess that somehow pushed me even more into fashion. »
You quoted two Cannes winning movies but you also talked about a ‘blockbuster phase’. There are of course a lot of differences between the two of them.
« Yes, and is the same with my taste in music. My playlists are just chaotic. I go from Opera music to Rock in two minutes. »
Would you say that you prefer more one than the other?
« No, I wouldn’t. I think that you cannot compare them. I love both in the same way. I like independent movies from the masters of cinema, without linear plots and full of meanings, but at the same time sometimes I want to relax and watch something easy to understand. And everyone knows that I’m a huge nerd, so I will not be able to function without Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. »
In your movies you usually quote other artist’s works.
« Yes. It’s my way to thank them for the inspiration that they gave me and communicate my appreciation for their works. »
But your work is also described as ‘political’ and ‘unconventional’.
« True. I always thought that communicate my view of the world with other people was important to me. I don’t get political on purpose sometimes. It’s just that the topics that I’m dealing with are political, and usually unconventional. To be honest I don’t mind my works described in that way. I would hate if what I do would be labelled as ‘normal’. »
When do you started to do political works?
« I would say pretty early. When I was a teen I was always arguing about delicate matters. Also I had to deal with the mind-closeted country I was living in, which is one of the reasons why I left it. »
Do you remember of your first works with a political message?
« I’m sure is not my firsts one, but I have a tattoo on my arm that say ‘home’ in capital letters, and the ‘o’ has the earth drew into it. I created it and got it as soon as I was eighteen. It has two meaning: one, we have to take care of the planet and it’s ecosystem and two, if I cannot live in my country I can go to live in another one. »
You mention that you left your home country earlier and that it was because you didn’t like the ‘atmosphere’ if we can say so.
« Yes. I left it with the excuse of studying at university abroad and of better work-opportunities. When I did it, I had to change and transform a lot of parts of my life. »
Isn’t transformation also the theme of your new shooting?
« It is. In my opinion fashion is one of the easiest way to express yourself however you want. You can use clothes to feel more comfortable in your own body, you can explore different styles, you can express how you are feeling. »
Would you say that fashion is a way to recreating yourself?
« Yeah. You can keep changing your way of expression. »
And the word transformation has a more profound meaning for you, right?
« Well of course. By being transgender, that word is just some sort of constant in my life. »
Where did you took this pictures?
« We took them in Harrow, right outside London. We spend a couple of hours wondering around and looking for a good place to take pictures. »
What do you think about the fashion scene in London?
« I love it. When you go out you see dozen of different styles. I think it helps my creativity somehow. Of course English fashion is way different from the Italian one. I grow up near Milan, so I would often go there in summer and to do shopping. It’s one of the fashion capitals after all. I also love the style in New York, France and Germany. The people in Berlin have a particular style which I think is somehow related with change and transformation. »
Any other artist’s inspiration for this work?
« Definitely some portraits from the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Gallery like Boy with a stick playing World War III by Margaret Mitchell, Indecisive Moment by Blerim Racaj and Martha’s portraits by Sian Davey. Also Jason Bell’s portraits, like and an interview of Tilda Swinton about Suspiria for the Italian Vanity Fair in 2018 »
What format did you use for the pictures?
« I used a Nikon camera for the digital pictures and an old Canon 35mm camera with Ilford hp+5 film. »
Favourite quote on Fashion?
« I think Luca Guadagnino once said ‘When people think fashion is just the surface of things, I disagree very politely’. »
You like Guadagnino’s works?
« A queer, half-Italian that most Italian don’t really care about? Of course I like him, I fell in love with Call Me By Your Name. It was shoot at a couple of kilometres from my hometown and I love the 80s aesthetic. »
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Photos take in April at Harrow. I tried to copy various artist that had worked in the fashion photography area. I liked the contrast between the bright and soft-colored clothes and the hardness of the colors of the brick walls.
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Jason Bell is an English photographer who currently work for Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Time and other important publications. He gain a lot of popularity also by taking photographs of famous people (see above) and relizing poster for tv series and movie, such as The Danish Girl, The Crown, Love Actually and The Revenant. Many of his works are part of the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection.
Website: http://www.jasonbellphoto.com/
I like the use of the light (sometimes from behind the subject, like in the second row of photos) and the use of the colours on the background to highlight the subjects and their clothes.
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TAYLOR WESSING 2016
PHIL SHARP JOHN MCCREA from the series Actors (Inkjet Print) August 2015: Phil Sharp also took part of the Taylor Wessing Prize from 2018, with the photo Louis Tomlinson.
CRISTINA DE MIDDEL ALESIA ATOLEVNA MARKINA from the series Poly Spam, 2009
SIAN DAVEY MARTHA (Inkjet Prints) May 2016 (up) and August 2015 (down): Davey began to take pictures of her teenager daugther Matha, in portraits of the girl and her lifestyle.
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TAYLOR WESSING 2012
DAVID STEWART FOUR HATS from the series Teenage Pre-occupation, January 2012
ANNIE COLLINGE MARI, BROOKLYN, February 2012
JAMES RUSSELL CANT HEATHER AND HER FRIENDS, January 2011
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TAYLOR WESSING 2014
MARGARET MITCHELL BOY WITH A STICK PLAYING WORLD WAR III (’RUSSIA VERSUS UKRAINE’) March 2013
SARA AL OBAIDLY TOGETHER WE STAND from the series Qatar: Old hearts, new world, June 2014
VIVIANA PERETTI NATALY ANGEL MIRANDA from the series Dancing Like a Woman, July 2013
SAMI PARKKINEN ARVI from the series Father and Son, March 2014
BLERIM RACAJ INDECISIVE MOMENT, August 2013
JESSICA FULFORD-DOBSON SKATE GIRL from the series The Skate Girl of Kabul, May 2014 (Second Prize)
I choose to look to this picture becuase first of all, i think that portrait photography and fashion photography are connected. The picture above, are from the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014, but they could also work as adverisemnt for fashion magazines or as campaings for new clothes/make-up products in my opinion.
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Chad Moore is an American photographer from Florida. During the years he developed his personal and individual style, experimenting especially with strong lights and reflections, creating effects that looks like light-leak and aged film noises.
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Bruna Kazinoti is a Croatian photographer. She studied at the Royal Accademy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. During her studies she focus her portraits on her boyfriend, and the focus of her editorial work are male subjects and men’s fashion. She usually shots with a Nikon 35mm camera and natural light. Her pictures have a sense of nostalgia and in some of her picture she photograph the models from behind, suggesting a rejection for the traditional rappresentation of fashion photography and portraits.
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Since the theme for the module project is tranformation, I have decided to realize a collection of stories from diffrent poeple of a significan transformation that they had during their life-time.
The idea is to realize a booklet with a fashion magazine aesthetic and appearence, with a style related to fashion shootings for the pictures. Every diffrenct subject will follow a diffrent style for their photographies, to explore in a better way the artistic area, the composition, the diffrent typologies of fphoto shoots, ecc.
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Dollhouse Project
The project started by looking at the space, place and history into the dynamics between LGBT+ kids and their families. Space and place can be seen as the physical house where the children grow up, and this growth consist in the history.
The expanded media piece itself started by the idea of showing the sense of loneliness and abandonment of the kid, by showing a bag in a dark room, that should have communicate that the child was running away from home. But the idea developed into the creation of the “set” of an office. With this added part, now the story behind the piece is that the police (who is represented as the office) is looking for the missing child.
The practical realization can be divided in four points, starting with researches and inspiration through other artist’s works. Secondly the creation of a soundtrack based on music, movie dialog and TV news related to the queer community. The other two parts where realized at the same time, and they are the creation of the set (trying to implement the objects that were already in the room in the project) and of the paper “props” such as photos, maps and articles.
The final purpose of the project is to show the story of this kid who has no name, age , country nor gender. The lack of detail on the young protagonist is due to show that this phenomenon (queer kids living home) is spread worldwide and it can happen to every member of the community.
I think that I started this project with a negative attitude (because in the beginnig it was meant t o talk only about abandonment), but the it took a more positive turn, since behind the story there is a more pacified “ending” to the piece’s story, which is that the kid’s parents are looking for them.
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I have had details on the paper props, such highlights on the maps’ location. Some of the places that I choose to point out are places that I have visited with my friend and family. And some of them have importance into the queer community 8particulary the one on the London’s map)
Also two of the polaroids pictures where shot at Milan’s pride march of 2018.
On one of the printed photos there is a number, which is a Uk crisis text number for depressed and suicidal feelings (Fact: those houses are in Copenaghen and they were used as set of the 2015 movie “The Danish Girl”, that talks about a transgender woman)
On the same photo there is written “The girl has already been interrogated and she says that she hasn’t saw the (the missing kid) since they left school on Friday” in italian.
On the back of another picture there is written “meeting point with friends after school, from April to June” in german.
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Short Backstage video of the project (Room F103, 7 &9 of Jan)
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