A selection of photographs from the deep surface reflections series was published on the number 13 of Witness Journal.
These photos of mannequins have been taken in various European capitals during the last two years. Shops where mannequins become a reflection of ourselves, our hopes and ways of life, our society, cities and culture.
Some photos of my reportage in Antarctica have been published on the number 12 of the online magazine WitnessJournal, that is a webzine of the photography portal FotoUp.
Reading is free and in addition to my photos in the current number there are many other interesting reportages.
The installation Infinite Cube City, based on one of the picture of the series Infinite Palaces and buildings, will be axposed during the Zooart manifestation, from 10 to 13 July.
Giardini Fresia
Corso Giovanni XXIII
12100 Cuneo
Italy
Here you can read the press release (in italian) ZooArt+ManifestaZOOne 2008.
On June 27 at Acte2 gallery, a collective exposition will be inaugurated with pictures of the winners of the Px3 2008 competition. Five photos of Antarctica, who won the nature category non-pro, will be exposed.
The inauguration will be open from 7 to 9 pm and this is the address of the gallery:
Acte2 Galerie
41, rue d’Artois
75008 Paris
A series of five photos from Antarctica, with the title The silence of the ice, have won the first place of the category Nature non-pro, section landscape, of the Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3).
Some minutes ago I received a mail saying that the jury has selected this series also as the major Nature category winner in the 2008 Px3 competition.
On the Px3 site is available the complete list of 2008 winners and people’s choice voting is now open.
During the last year I worked extensively on repeated patterns in architecture.
I’m finally happy to announce that a new album featuring some image from the series Infinite Palaces and Buildings has been recently added to the gallery.
Description and artistic statement coming soon.
I finally had some time to restyle the photo home page.
Now it display additional information about every section of the site, a random picture from the gallery, the last entry in the photoblog and the first picture attached to the last Camera Obscura article. Additionally the new photo home page include directly the most recent activities in the News, Photoblog and Camera Obscura section of the site.
Furthermore all the feeds (excluding users comments) of the different section of the site are aggregated using a Yahoo Pipe and Feedburner, in this way you can subscribe to a unique photo feed to stay up to date with everything new on Fabiano Busdraghi photography page.
I was invited to create a personal page on Artbreak.
I then published some photographs taken during the last time, some of these are for sale in limited and numbered edition.
Some days ago I received this mail:
I work at the Saatchi Gallery and am writing to you to congratulate you on having been chosen to have one of your photographs on the Saatchi Online Wall, which is part of the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards taking place in Cannes later this month. We have made a selection of just 100 photographs to be presented on the Saatchi Online Wall out of the 1000 most highly rated entries. [...]
The Sony Photography Awards exhibitions, including the Saatchi Online Wall, will open on 20 April. [...] We anticipate thousands of people coming to see the exhibition and your work! Photographs of the Saatchi Online Wall will be published on Saatchi Online’s Magazine after the close of the 2008 Sony Awards at the end of April.
The nice thing is that I’m not obliged to print one of the photos selected in the short list of WPA, but I have the freedom to choose another picture.
I have therefore prepared a personal page on the website of the Saatchi Gallery and chose to print Moloch, a photograph of demons, to be exposed in Cannes.
From a recent exchange of mail with Max Boschini, we wrote an interview that has been published today on the current number of Design Radar: Intervista a Fabiano Busdraghi (in Italian).
The interview covers several topics: my biography, some recent works and projects for the future, discussion about art, music and contemporary photography, the role of the Internet in diffusion of information, why I use ancient techniques of printing and write a blog about photography.
Stating from the next month, the gallery Chambre avec vues will have a new space in Paris, nearer the center and the art gallery zone. The new address is:
Galerie Chambre avec Vues
3 rue Jules Vallès
75011 Paris
Métro Charonne
From Tuesday to Friday, from 14:00 to 19:00
The Italian magazine Fotocomputer, dedicated to digital photography, published an interview in the number 97, currently available in newsstands, about what photography is for me and something about my workflow. The article is accompanied by photographs from several portfolio, some of which are not yet available online.
An article of 6 pages with some of my photography from Antarctic has been published on the number 19 of Photofan (A Chasseur d’images’s magazine devoted solely to photography and not to technique) and in France is currently available in any newspaper stand.
The two pictures that has entered the short list of the WPA are online on the site of the contest.
For the nature category the photography selected is Rain at Cabo Negro, while for the portraiture category is The beggar.
I have implemented a multilingual blogging system on Camera Obscura. For the moment only few articles are translated in English (I will shortly translate something in French and Spanish too). If you like Camera Obscura and you want to contribute translating any article, please send me a mail.
Yesterday I received an e-mail with a really good news. A photo, that a few months ago I’ve sent to the Sony World Photography Awards, has been rated amongst the top ten photographers by the World Photographic Academy. On April 14 they will communicate the three finalists names.
A few minutes after I received a second mail: another photo that I sent for the portraits category has also been selected among the top ten photography. This is a great news!
I was still experiencing terrible performances on the photoblog and I also had some theme problem, thus I spent the last few days working on it.
I updated Yapb, the really nice plugins used to convert Wordpress into a complete photoblog system. This solved all the performance issues: the site now is really faster, especially showing thumbnails.
I also wrote a new theme. Light and minimalistic, halfway between the Carbon theme of the Gallery and Camera Obscura. Thanks to this update, after some weeks down, the tag navigation system is finally back again and full working.
I’m now represented by the french gallery Chambre avec vues, located in Paris, near the Alesia underground station.
Chambres avec vues
56 bis rue des Plantes
75014 Paris
France
Tél : + 33 1 40 52 53 00
Fax : + 33 1 45 43 05 25
Web : http://chambre-avec-vues.com
They are exposing a selection of photographies from the i demoni portfolio. All pictures are carbon prints, signed and limited edition. A technical description of i demoni photographies and prints is available for reading.
I added a new interesting feature to Camera Obscura: each article can now be downloaded as a pdf file for printing and offline reading.
The first day there was some problems whit attached images, but now everything runs fine.
I was experiencing some performance problems with my photoblog. Posts and archives loaded too slowly and the home page was quite long.
Today I switched to a new theme with fast load of thumbnails and only one photo per page. In this way the daily picture is bigger and has more visibility in the photoblog home page. If you still experience some problems please let me know.
