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.
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