“Everything you can imagine is real.”–Pablo Picasso Imagine holding a big, fresh, juicy lemon in your hands. Now imagine cutting it into slices, feel the acidic juice dripping onto your skin and perceive the overwhelmingly sour aroma spreading in the air. Now you take a juicy slice and stick it in your mouth, suck on [...]
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Extreme Anorexic Look
Fashion magazines – we all know it – love anorexic models. A while ago, I was discussing new potential fashion stories with the editor of a magazine and I proposed focusing on the very subject. “When you cast new models, you are always looking for skinny girls”, I told her. “How about having some fun [...]
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The Future Of Photography, The Future Of Journalism
How come painters of past centuries used to paint saints all the time? (Because they were sponsored by the church). People working in communication know well that the content transmitted by traditional media MUST support the advertisers. The reason is simple: without advertising traditional media could not survive. Here are a couple of experiences that [...]
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Bald Is Beautiful
A group of American women got together with the idea of redefining the concept of beauty. Men can be blond, brown, red, white and… bald. Why not women? I photographed them in New York as they were that day and I collected their stories too. Some of them have alopecia, some have been through chemotherapy, others [...]
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Plastic Bottles Are Good For The Environment
A while ago I was discussing new topics to cover with the director of a fashion magazine. I proposed shooting some pictures and doing an article on water and a number of related issues (water shiatsu, the Hado project, giving birth in water…). I didn’t propose writing about the controversy over privatization of water by [...]
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Spiritual Technology (original version)
A school that integrates psychology and spirituality The following article—here published in its original version—was printed in a fashion magazine after major editing. The editor-in-chief felt the need to glamourize it with expressions like “the happiness factory of the Arab-Californian guru” or “a prêt-à-porter method”. Not a big deal when compared to the fact that [...]
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