PHOTOGRAPHY PILLS (FIGS AND NUTS) BY VANESSA RUSCI
To get to know and learn more about the great photographers of the past
but also contemporaries, from reportage to contemporary art,
the photographers who have been important to my career and all the people who have enriched my photographic experience.
In this blog I tell you about them:
Because photography is predominantly an exchange.
Discover my services for photographers and artists.
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Alessandro Curti
Alessandro Curti Cortiana is a journalist, curator, and lecturer in History of Photography at IED Milan.
He is a member of Still Fotografia in Milan.
He talks to us about his books on photography and Artificial Intelligence, the future of digital archives, and many other fascinating topics.
Andrea Calabresi
Andrea Calabresi, photographic artist and lecturer specialized in photography, film development, and analog printing. He is one of the leading Italian figures in this field. Andrea has exhibited for many years in Italy and abroad and is represented by contemporary art galleries. He regularly offers limited-enrollment courses on analog photography. An informal yet very engaging conversation about contemporary photography: how to choose a course, analog “pills,” men and women in photographs, and much more!
Tania Gianesin
She is Co-Founder and Board Member at Moleskine Foundation.
She has always worked in the cultural field, with a particular focus on education and on access to and sharing of knowledge. She was the Director of the Università dell’Immagine in Milan, a school created by Fabrizio Ferri, which I attended in the early 2000s.
In the interview, we talk about the sensory approach, the school, the projects of the Moleskine Foundation, and new opportunities.
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Francis Cito
Francesco Cito is undoubtedly one of the most important living Italian photographers.
I was lucky enough to meet him in the early 2000s at the Foiano Photography Festival in Tuscany.
I attended it in my Tuscan period and even though I did a very different photography from reportage and photo journalism our chats were very useful to me, not only for my photography but also for teaching.
In this interview I asked Francesco above all about his life. I love biographies and I'm always so interested in people's stories and Francesco, as a good "crazy" reporter, has many adventures to tell:
What England was like in his early work in music, the demands of English newspapers for stories of Mafia and smugglers, his relationship with Afghanistan, his Word Press Photo awards and his idea of what photography it should be today, where "aesthetics" won over history...
Marsha Guggenheim
Marsha Guggenheim is a San Francisco-based fine art photographer.
Represented by Corden Potts Gallery, Marsha is a 2021 and 2022 Critical Mass finalist. Her work has been shown in over fifty exhibitions and is included in numerous private collections. Feature articles and interviews range from Black & White Magazine, All About Photo Magazine, Fraction Magazine, F-Stop Photography Magazine and Lenscratch. In 2023, Marsha will be featured in a solo show at The Griffin Museum of Photography and will also participate in a six-artist group show at the Harvey Milk Photography Center in San Francisco.
Denis Curti
"In the 1990s he was director of the Photography section of the European Institute of Design in Turin and of the Italian Foundation for Photography. In the years 2002-2003 he was the curator of the first photographic auctions at Sotheby's in Milan.
For over 15 years he was a journalist and photographic critic for the pages of Vivimilano and Corriere della Sera. From 2005 to 2014 he was director of Contrasto – Milan and vice president of the Forma Foundation in Milan.
Expert in the collecting market, in 2014 he founded STILL Photography.
He was director of the monthly "Il Fotografo" from 2015 to 2019, today he is artistic director of the Casa dei TRE OCI in Venice, of the Capri Photography Festival and until 2021 of SI FEST - Savignano sul Rubicone. Furthermore, he is a consultant to the 2 Venice Foundation for the management of the photographic heritage and has been the curator of various exhibitions."
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