giuseppe sanmartino, sansevero chapel, naples

maurizio cattelan, all, venice

settimio benedusi, studio sabotino, milan

You can enlarge all images by clicking on them.

catrinel is a model with whom I’ve worked with various times and with whom I’ve also done important jobs.

A few days ago she asked me to take a few portraits of herself for her new carrier, as an actress: I am confident that she will do well also in this new adventure of hers, as she is not only beautiful but also very good.

She came to my studio, I put on some sad and melancholic music, I let her be lit by natural light from my big window, I whispered a few words to her, I picked up my canon with the 50 millimeters, she didn’t use any make up nor done her hair and I took pictures of her, for not more than twenty minutes. These are the images that came out, not even retouched, only converted to black and white and grainy.

Both photographs can be clicked and enlarged

A well known aphorism of the king of aphorisms, the great ennio flaiano, says that the career of an artist is divided into three parts: “young promise, usual dickhead, venerable teacher”

In the photograph below there are the photographers toni thorimbert, gianni berengo gardin and settimio benedusi. Only one thing is certain, gardin is the venerable teacher. About the other two figures you have freedom of interpretation…

I put together “the best” of my participation, in the last three years, to the television show “italy’s next top model”: it has always been very pleasant and enjoyable.

The problem about tragedies is that, as big or as small as they are, they provoke the same habit: at the beginning they astonish us, they affect us and then, inexorably, disappear from the media and we forget about them…

There has been the terrible earthquake in haiti which we all know about. Even this is slowly disappearing, overwhelmed by news of miserable earthquakes nearer to us. But the tragedy continues and it surely won’t be resolved quickly. There is someone documenting daily how things are going down there in the caribbean: in short the emergency is not at all fake, on the contrary.

I (excuse the useless first person protagonist) have given my own contribution, by giving a certain sum of money. But one can do much more and better than that…

So I had the wonderful collaboration of toni thorimbert, the most important italian photographer (there is no way around it, it’s like that…), to collect some money to give to charity.

Toni gave me four beautiful prints to sell. The images are all square and they measure 28,6 x 28,6. They are card board mounted, with the date, stamped and signed on the back.

Here they are, you can enlarge by clicking on them, to better appreciate them:

The first and the second one were shot in portugal in 1994, the third in rome in ’93, the fourth in berlin in ’97.

These four prints are BEAUTIFUL, and they have a price tag well below the usual quotes of this artist: 250 euros each.

What can I say more: I have a presumptuous certainty that who follows my blog could understand that this is a unique chance to have at home an original thorimbert at an excellent figure and knowing that, everytime you enjoy its sight, you’ll think on how your money was well spent for a noble cause.

There is no auction, there will be no other prints on sale so hurry up: send me a mail to “info [at] benedusi [dot] it” and I will tell you how to proceed.

Thank you!

I almost forgot! On toni’s blog there is another photographer that is selling another four good prints…

In a recent issue of max filled with the morgan event, there is a double spread page by me, shot exactly a year ago in the aosta valley, in jonny’s paradise, a place populated by gnomes, fairies and strange beings and where, obviously, strange things happen.

the gorgeous and extremely good model for the shooting was a born and bred florentine: beatrice, whom although she was in the cold and the snow, she still “seems so sweet and honest”, as witnessed on the backstage video.

One can find himself calm listening to the songs that he loves, the albums that caress one’s soul, satisfying melodies… and thinks that the best is what he knows well already… but suddenly a new album comes out of nowhere… wrongfooting… moving… deep… antique and modern…

Here, out of nowhere the new album by MIDLAKE, “the courage of others“ appears: you can even buy just the first track “acts of man”, let the melody rock you, let yourself go, enter a new world…

The magazine SETTE comes inserted in today’s corriere della sera, with sixty eight photographers which, on the same day (the 14^th of January), photographed a slice of italy: I photographed a young italian (alessia campostrini) photographing a young italian model (isabella de candia).

There is also a backstage video, filmed by marco scozzaro and edited very well by sperimenti.

This is my photo, click to enlarge: