photographer, runner, traveller, developer, designer, actor, entrepreneur and blogger. Not necessarily in this order.
Say it with a pic
teripaquitinho's blog
-
INSOMNIA
I chose "INSOMNIA", a project I developed back in London, to introduce you to my new photo-blog. This is a very personal project, probably telling just a little about who I am, but expressing one of the main points I would like to make through this blog.
Photographs are reflections of a moment. I would not pretend them (mine or others') to be either totally true or false, nor universal or unique. They just tell a story, that's it! They could be interesting, passionate, scary or even boring, and we feel them in different ways depending on our tastes or mood just as they were a book or a movie.
This is the first one... have a look and see what this story means to you.
Insomnia - London 2007
Digital Shots - Film Stills
© Francesco MancusiThe images in the set are film still portraits capturing myself in the apartment I was living in during my stay in London, few year ago. This project is inspired by Jeff Wall's project shot in 1994 and called the same way. Jeff Wall is a Canadian artist and photographer. With his work he connected film and literature to art in a new style defined as "cinematographic photography", which he distinguished from "documentary photography". For a more extended biography, click here.
"The set for this work is an exact replica of the kitchen in Wall’s studio. The man seemingly suffering from a nightmarish episode of insomnia is an actor. The claustrophobic atmosphere is emphasised by the awkward positioning of the furniture – tables and chairs are placed at angles that defeat their function, and appear to block the fridge and cooker from opening. The door and cupboard, half ajar, could be read as metaphors for the mind, in its struggle to find an escape into sleep." [from Tate Modern, London, 1994]
-
teripaquitinho's Posterous
photographer, runner, traveller, developer, designer, actor, entrepreneur and blogger. Not necessarily in this order.
