Am avut un concept fix in ceea ce priveste shootingul si am incercat sa scot ceva bun din el. Stilista a fost Andreea Constantin, care a facut multe shooting-uri de coperta pentru The One, pentru Viva si pentru multe alte reviste. Modelul a fost evident Andreea Balan. Shooting-ul promoveaza piesa GOD, care va fi lansata maine la pranz pe Kiss Fm, si mai apoi pe tot online-ul.

Astept comentarii, critici, preluari.

Tim Burton e regizorul meu preferat si e unul din cei mai mari artisti contemporani, dupa mine. The Dark Lord isi dovedeste maiestria prin avanpremiera unei colectii de moda mai intunecate, in trendurile sezonului actual (trendul nu e dark, insa el a adaptat directiile la stilul dark care ii caracterizeaza intreaga opera). Aceasta este o retrospectiva a expozitie pe care o va sustine la Muzeul de Arta din New York.

Fotografiile sunt facute de britanicul Tim Walker pentru numarul de octombrie al revisteiHarper’s Bazaar.

Modelul este Adina, of course.

Poze facute de mine, aseara, la lansarea telenovelei Aniela, gasiti pe GlossyMagazine.ro . Gasiti pe acolo si fotografii facute de Adina, project manager-ului revistei care si-a luat un Canon, de curand, si invata sa-l foloseasca. PATIENCE!!!

Mai jos gasiti extrase dintr-un articol scris de Scott Bourne pe PhotoPhocus.com. Scott incearca sa gaseasca raspunsul la intrebarea “what’s a real photographer?” si sa imparta fotografii in 2 categorii: cei care alearga dupa bani si cei care o fac de dragul artei. In ultimul an, eu am trecut din prima categorie in cea de-a doua.

There are two groups of photographers.(…) There’s one group who thinks that if you are an “artist,” your photography is somehow more pure, or valuable than it is if you are a professional who shoots for pay.(…) The other group of professionals tends to value photographic works based on the money they generate and who are more concerned about getting paid for a photo than they are creating art. (…) I have at times no doubt created art with my camera. But more frequently, I’ve created products. (…) I don’t think we should be wasting time defining this person or that as a “real” photographer based on whether or not they get paid. But I also don’t think we should be wasting time defining people as “real” photographers just because they DON’T get paid. (…) What’s it all mean? Who knows. But I do know this. It’s the image that counts, not what you call the person responsible for the image. The picture is what matters. It’s what always has mattered most. It’s what always will matter most.

Go out and make pictures. Charge for them or not. But make them.

Articolul scris de Scott e bazat pe discutia pornita de David duChemin, inceputa pe blogul sau si pe Twitter. Iata despre ce vorba:

it went something like this: ” To be a real photographer you also need to be a business.” Like all quotes there’s the fact that this quote is completely without context, so forget for a minute what the original author meant, because that’s not really what I’m reacting to. What I’m reacting to is the notion that to be a “real” photographer you need to be a so-called professional.(…) The idea that the only people who should be called “photographers” are those making money at it, is total horse shit. Yes, to be a professional photographer you need to be a business person and you need to do it well. (…) But so as not to be ambiguous, it needs to be understood that your art is not legitimized by how much money you make at it, if any. There are plenty of photographers of mediocre ability who make a living at this. There are many photographers who pay to do it, and subsidize their art by working as dentists, doctors, janitors, teachers, who are exceptional. To deny that they too are photographers merely because they choose not to sell their work, is not only ridiculous it’s offensive. (…) To reduce our art or craft to legitimacy only when it’s kissed on the brow by the mighty dollar is perverse, bordering on creative prostitution. By all means, make a living at it. I do. I love it so much I finally – after years and years as an amateur – took the leap and began doing this full time. But that in no way made me a “photographer.” It made me a professional, vocational, photographer, but not a better one. I am on no higher plane and neither are those who presume to be.

No working photographer I know and respect would have the audacity to suggest that only the professionals can be “photographers”, but it’s not them I’m concerned about. It’s the amateurs I am concerned about. I worry that any of them would buy into this garbage and be discouraged from creating, expressing, pursuing this craft with passion and creating art for the love of it. A photographic world in which the first question people ask is “what does the market want?” is not a world I want to be a part of. Do we eventually ask the question? Maybe. Maybe not. But it sure as hell isn’t the primal question. Furthermore, art created from passion and not from greed is art that will more powerfully resonate with people, and is therefore more commercially viable, so even on a pragmatic level passion pays. I don’t want to look at the work created by a photographer who creates only what I want to see or pay for. I want to look at the work of an artist who cares enough to create something that comes from deep within.

Can you create great work and charge for it? Of course. But it’s not the right question. My next book is about the fusion of craft and commerce. I believe you can make a living – even a good living – at doing this. It’s not easy, but you can do it. I believe a working photographer is worth his wage and is probably charging too little. But not every photographer wants to complicate their art with the demands and liabilities of professionalism and there’s no reason they should. There are photographers who by profession are accountants and teachers and taxi drivers and they may enjoy their work and find inspiration there. What matters is that you create, you express, you share, and you find a way to sustain that. How you sustain it is up to you.

Ciudat sau nu, mi-am batut si eu capul cu intrebarea “ce vrea piata?” saptamanile astea. Am citit mai multe articole si sunt de acord cu concluziile lui David.

If you’ve made it this far and you’re an amateur, keep at it. Live your creative life on your terms. (…)

Pentru cei care sunt obisnuiti sa scriu despre alte lucruri, probabil ca nu aveti rabdare sa cititi ce scrie mai sus, insa oamenii se schimba. Lumea se invarte si noi ne invartim odata cu ea. Lucrurile care ne fac fericiti sau care ne intereseaza evolueaza. La fel o se intample si cu cititorii. Niciodata nu am cautat sa fiu comercial sau sa ma citeasca o gloata (de analfabeti). As vrea sa ma citeasca 15 oameni, insa aia sa fie interesati in ceea ce scriu, nu neaparat sa comenteze.

peace
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