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Refinery Flocks (2006/2009)
Refinery Flocks is the resulting project of the previous Refinery Flock (2006), Refinery Again (2008). It comprises a selection of the photographs of both projects plus some new photographs taken in late 2009. The project is visible under "Works->Refinery Flock" on the Portfolio. Nature is able to adapt. Recently, for instance, great catastrophes, as petrol spills in the sea, did not produce, in some cases, all the predicted effects thanks to the extraordinary resilience of ecological systems. Our planet evolution, even if only in the last century heavy marked by the so called “industrial progress”, always showed an exceptional adaptation ...
Wrecked Dreams (Lampedusa) – 2009
Thousands of tourists flock every summer to the island of Lampedusa off the coast of Sicily. They mostly come from the northern part of Europe of from Italy for the beaches, the turquoise waters and the cliffs. But there is more happening in this small chalk plateau in the middle of the Mediterranean. Flocks of immigrants (36.000 boat people between Feb 2008 and 2009), with the dream of peace and of a better life pictured in the eyes, with desperation for escaping war, try to cross that wonderful sea with improvised boats of all kinds. A voyage of hope from the south ...
Sichuan (2008)
A violent earthquake causes thousand of victims and enormous damages. What remains are ruins and lost people. 18,522 still missing after China quake. 12 Photographs Edition of 5 +1 author’s proof / 150x100 cm – 60x40 inches Edition of 10 + 1 author’s proof / 90x60 cm – 36x24 inches Edition of 15 + 1 author’s proof / 60x40 cm – 24x15 inches "Sichuan in WORKS" >> [slideshow id=7]
Impressions of NYC (2007)
"Yet Another": A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. This is probably my case: Yet another set of NYC photographs. Impossible non to replicate some other's works. Difficult to resist to the Big Apple sex appeal. For this reasons I decided to publish my "Impressions of NYC". Yet another tribute to a city symbol of movement, dynamism. An irresistible place. Open Impressions of NYC in Portfolio >>> [slideshow id=9]
Simulacra (2009)
Simulacra is the essay I'm working on since one year circa. Project rationale the following: A Simulacrum. The representation of a God, an image that does not correspond exactly to reality. Modern society, Baudrillard claims, has replaced reality and meaning with symbols and signs and has become so reliant on simulacra that it has lost contact with the real world on which the simulacra are based. These photographs are, to this respect, simulacra of simulacra. Small votive altars that populate Sicilian nights, often neglected, and to some extent, more and more anachronistic. Mysterious, dilapidated, illuminated or not, abandoned, overwhelmed by galloping ...
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Ho letto oggi questo tuo post, e… boh, la mia esperienza con una Panasonic (era la Lumix DMC-FX7) non è stata eccezionale. Praticamente utilizzabile solo a 100 iso e una compressione indecorosa. Mancava poi, completamente, della possibilità di intervenire manualmente sulle impostazione, nè a questo si poteva ovviare selezionando i programmi preimpostati (panorama, sport, ritratto etc.). Molto meglio mi era sembrata, in questa categoria, la Casio Exilim.
Certo, nel frattempo qualche anno è passato, ma mi è rimasta una forte diffidenza verso le compatte digitali (alimentata anche dal fatto che la risoluzione è aumentata a parità di dimensioni del sensore).
Ma poi l’hai presa questa compatta?
Certo! Se guardi sul blog ci sono altri posts sulla LX3…
http://www.massimocristaldi.com/wordpress/tag/lx3/
Massimo
Complimenti per quello che hai scritto. Un’ora fa ho ordinato la LX3 online. Mi hai convinto. Sono sempre stato appassionato di foto,ma non sono un professionista assolutamente. Ho continuato a scattare con le vecchie reflex (PENTAX, CANON) e non reflex VITO II A SOFFIETTO. Mi affascina fotografare quello che incontro in giro e per strada. Quindi credo sia la scelta giusta. Grazie ancora per le appassionate informazioni