Stefano Moscardini
Photographer
Stefano Moscardini, born in Voghera in 1981, is a reportage and portrait photographer. He started his career in 2007 in a small-town commercial studio. He quickly became aware of the fact that his photography could have been much more than just a source of income and transitioned to reportage photography. In this field, his most important work so far is Suspension of Disbelief, a reportage about modern rituals of body suspension, featured in an exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and it’s on its way to publication.
His reportage works do not focus on anthropology only. In 2013 he spent a week on board of the Ionian Spirit, a ferry taken hostage by its own crew. He documented the lives of the sailors that have been living aboard the ship for twelve months without money, food, electricity and help from the company, risking their lives and endangering the relationships with their families back home in order to fight for their right to the wage.
The mind opening experiences of Suspension of Disbelief and Ionian Spirit led him to realize what the long term negative effects of life in a small town were. That’s how Short Sighted Suburbia, a landscape photography project about fog as a metaphor of isolation and lack of empathy, was born.
In 2016 he moved to Rome and started his current project Martyrs, a series of creative portraits that employs the collective representation of persecution, in the form of classical Christian martyrdom, to convey a critical message against social stigma. The subject of each portrait is not a model, but a common person who has been victim of a stigma.
Currently, Stefano works at B49 Studio in Rome as a portrait photographer.
Stefano Moscardini
Photographer
Stefano Moscardini, born in Voghera in 1981, is a reportage and portrait photographer. He started his career in 2007 in a small-town commercial studio. He quickly became aware of the fact that his photography could have been much more than just a source of income and transitioned to reportage photography. In this field, his most important work so far is Suspension of Disbelief, a reportage about modern rituals of body suspension, featured in an exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London and it’s on its way to publication.
His reportage works do not focus on anthropology only. In 2013 he spent a week on board of the Ionian Spirit, a ferry taken hostage by its own crew. He documented the lives of the sailors that have been living aboard the ship for twelve months without money, food, electricity and help from the company, risking their lives and endangering the relationships with their families back home in order to fight for their right to the wage.
The mind opening experiences of Suspension of Disbelief and Ionian Spirit led him to realize what the long term negative effects of life in a small town were. That’s how Short Sighted Suburbia, a landscape photography project about fog as a metaphor of isolation and lack of empathy, was born.
In 2016 he moved to Rome and started his current project Martyrs, a series of creative portraits that employs the collective representation of persecution, in the form of classical Christian martyrdom, to convey a critical message against social stigma. The subject of each portrait is not a model, but a common person who has been victim of a stigma.
Currently, Stefano works at B49 Studio in Rome as a portrait photographer.
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Ingela IhrmanSep 30, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024In a playful way, Ingela Ihrman’s work explores what it means to be human. With humour and sincerity, she lifts questions concerning identity and belonging by looking at different life forms and how we relate to one another. She focuses on strong emotions connected to everyday life, such as lust, longing and loneliness. (more…)
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Richard Serra: TransmitterOngoing“I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.” –Richard Serra (more…)
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METAmorphosis / OGR AwardMay 17, 2023Launched during the 2022 edition of Artissima, the METAmorphosis project is the second episode of Beyond Production – a conceptual platform born from the collaboration between Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Artissima, in dialogue with the OGR Award, with the aim of stimulating and promoting reflections on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. (more…)
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Where to now?Sep 9 – Oct 14, 2023Krinzinger Schottenfeld decided to develop an exhibition for the annual curated by festival, which underlines a deep research on the artists and their practice in the Middle East. This is justified by 15 years of strong presence of the Galerie Krinzinger not only in the yearly Art Dubai Fair, but also by continuous visits of the MENA-Region and contact with the local artists, who then successfully joined the gallery program. (more…)
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César CuspocaArtistCésar Cuspoca (1987–2022) is a Colombian artist whose artistic practice principally nourishes questions of perception, the duality between appearance and disappearance, and materialism and immaterialism. (more…)
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A Statement from The Calvert JournalOn the War in UkraineOn February 25, 2022, The Calvert Journal ceased publication until further notice. At a time when Russian acts of war are being committed in Ukraine, we cannot in good conscience continue our work covering culture and the arts like business as usual. (more…)
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Julie van der Vaart / Blind SpotPublicationBlind Spot by artist Julie van der Vaart is a poetic exploration of the concepts of imaginary time and deep time. Photographs of the human body, caves and water(falls) are choreographed into disorientating sequences to reveal correlations between images. (more…)
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Carmignac Photojournalism AwardDeadline October 6, 2023The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is devoted to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan. On May 26, 2023, the NGO Amnesty International published jointly with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) a report urging the International Criminal Court to qualify the abuses committed by the Taliban as a “crime against humanity” (more…)
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Alain LaboilePhotographerBorn on May 1, 1968 in Bordeaux, France, Alain Laboile is a photographer and father of six. In 2004, as he needed to put together a portfolio of his work as a sculptor, he acquired a camera, and thus developed a taste for macrophotography (more…)
