Paolo Roversi, one of the most famous italian fashion photographers based in Paris, will have today the private view of his first Solo Show at the Wapping Project, that is rappresenting him in UK. The exhibition is starting tomorrow at the Wapping Project Bankside in London.

Guinevere in yellow dress, Paris 1996

Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi has collaborated with Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Yves Saint-Laurent, Christian Dior, Valentino and many more influential designers. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Hara Museum, Tokyo; Centre Pompidou and Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris; the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

If you like fashion photography is one of the exhibitions you won’t miss!

Guinevere sitting on table, Paris 2004

Yedihael was born in France and he’s 19: thanks to skateboarding he started to be interested on videos and he produced small video projects. His sources of inspiration are his friends and the streets.

I take photo of my friends and French young people generally, my photographs aren’t staged, I try at most to capture a sincere moment without set-up; the most important are places and the light.
The recurring themes of my photos are the youth, the nature and the city; i try to highlight of my photos a feeling of freedom and I think that only the youth can make feel that.

Sonja Podesta grew up in New Jersey, USA. She is a freshman student studying at New York University – Tisch School of the Arts. Her work has won many national awards and recognitions.

Leaflood comes out of the mind of Tommaso Fiscaletti and Alice Marrollo, to carry out projects that arise from the constant comparison between the two.
Tommaso Fiscaletti (1981) lives and works in Milan as a photographer, assiduously devoted to personal projects. His work has been displayed in various exhibitions and fairs in Italy and abroad.
Alice Marrollo (1982) is an Art Director and Graphic Designer, lives in Milan where she works with major agencies, winning several awards, thanks to a personal style very recognizable.

“THE PERSISTENCE OF WISHES”

The Tendency to Persistence in Psychological function and development,
with special reference to Fixation and Regression.

(…)No structure can ever be lost once it has been created (although it can be damaged by normal processes of organic involution).
The structures are constantly being modified based on experience, using overlays from other structures (while still retaining substantial parts of the previous versions).

Joseph Sandler and W.G. Joffe Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Vol.31, N.5, 257-71 (1967)

Persistent: retained beyond the usual period, continuing without change in function or structure…
Time passes, and various events overwhelm your life. The problem is that you can forget how to listen to yourself, but a strong desire cannot be repressed. Sooner or later, the inner-child will return to collect the bill.
You begin to find a solution through the birth of your innermost desires, and by confessing them to someone who is able to make you feel that it is actually possible to realize them.
“The persistence of wishes”: a bear becomes the link between the present of adulthood, and the past of childhood. The animal is synonymous with the natural. It is essential, a true comfort through the inevitability of time.

Grégory Cardon was born in 1980, in Grenoble, France. He lives and works in Paris.

His photos reflect as much of the reality as he explores, that its interferences with a more imaginary iconography. His pictures outline a hybrid space, both geographical and imaginary, equally real and fantasized.

His work reveals a mental library of cultural references (works of art, movies, media figures …) that G.C. intertwines with the images he takes. All of his photographs are the result of this imaginary encounter with his daily life, and capture the power of otherwise trivial matters by giving them a new dimension.

photo by: Sabina Hannila

Sabina Hannila is a Swedish photographer who currently lives  and study at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham. After the University she wants to be a photojournalist exploring people and their personal stories.

Photographic project explain:

In the 1500s, a man called Nostradamus was born in France. He predicated that in the year of 2012 the earth and the life would be destroyed  by a comet. This was backed up by the Maya peolpe and their Long Count Calendar, wich ends in the year 2012. It was never started, however, in their calendar that the world is  going to end completely, but that world as we know it now will come  to an end and a new beginning shall take form. Peolpe have interpreted this in many ways, and the most popular one is that of the Apocalypse; this has also been backed  up by scientists that claim that a magnetic pole shift is about to happen around this time this year., wich will cause massive earthquake  and tsunamis all over the world.  People around the world are preparing for the Apocalypse by building bunkers and stocking up food as well as collecting survival gear. There is one group of people, however, that has taken these predictions in a slightly different manner. The Lightwalkers are a universal group of people who believe that 2012 is the year for positive change in humanity:”we will be enlightened rather than extinguished”. They believe that they were chosen, before birth, to save humanity from all its fears by, during the time of sleep, let their spirits leave their earthly bodies and travel up to our universe and together send positive thoughts through space. By doing  so they hope to create positive energy rather than negative, and therefore awaken people’s spiritual self.

“We are the family of the new Earth”

By the Atlantic Ocean, you can see the other side of the power plant in Beverly, Massachusetts. From the mist coming in from the ocean, the pale yellow tone of the lights, paints a mirage by the road.

I started photographing in January of 2005 to may 2006, in the area of Boston, Salem, Beverly and Marblehead. I discovered learning and researching from the environmental agencies and groups like the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency ), Health Link and Masspirg that the Salem Power plant had been a major factor in pollution to the environment specifically in water contamination,toxicants in the air and in the earth. These factors contribute consequently to the public’s health in general as a whole and in these areas particularly in Salem, Beverly, and Marblehead. The Salem power plant is a vital part, as a source of energy for the city of Salem and it’s surrounding areas. I became more of an environmental advocate as I read the statistics and the reports from health and environmental groups such as Harvard public Health that during the past decade until 2001, the power plant affected the public’s health in a considerable way. Positive steps have been made since 2001 in clean up, reducing hazardous toxicants, and introducing alternate programs such as Modern Wind mills for alternate source of energy. I have joined health link and Masspirg to contribute, help and do more research in the future and document these areas through my creative process. From my documentation of the city escapes and natural landscapes, I have noticed that they are both in constant change and progression, as well as a contrast to one another. They seem to have their own existence and we are adapted to and are in need of certain vital resources to survive. For example the basic organic elements and natural resources we use like earth, stone,water, timber, to live and develop. Presently, we are in more serious move to create an environmentally safe planet for our future and can we create a place where both landscapes can survive and co-exist? This project is marked by the start of the discussion in regards to the coexistence of our landscapes, in industrial development, and the city landscapes, versus our natural landscape.

At the Toxic Beach you can see the Horizon lights of the city in Beverly Massachusetts by the Beverly Harbor Bay.

At the ” Toxic Beach “, as it is refered to, a tree stump stands desolate and lifeless. A clear result of the harmful emitted pollution from the near by Salem power plant operation.

The Salem Power Plant in Beverly Massachusetts reflects it’s illuminating lights at night onto the still waters of Beverly Harbor Bay. A solitary tree stands in silhouette against the grand structure.

A stark outline of one of the few Windmills in Hull Massachusetts, stands isolated but powerful against a petroleum blue midnight sky.

This used to be an active industrial rail stations carring cargo throughout the 60′s and 70′s, now abandoned and left as a symbol of the past and once a booming city of Beverly, Massachusetts.

Under the Fenway Bridge, in Boston Massachusetts, evidence of an abandoned desolate area reflects the scenery of some of the sites in the urban city neighborhoods.

Between Kenmore Square and Fenway, a walkway that leads to the metropolitian area. The juxtaposition is visible from the ground, to the trees and the way to the city.

By Downtown Boston, you can see the drydock ship yard, the city lights shine from a bridge where everything connects.

A mountainous view, near a construction site in Boston, Massachusetts, looks like a familiar view of a natural landscape but rather will be part of a man-made escape in the future.

A small power plant in Boston, stands in reflection of a pool of polluted water generating power and electricity for the area on Massachusetts avenue.

In the middle of the fast-paced city in Boston at Kenmore square, and in the midst of progression and devleopment, our complex ways of accumulation, resources and necessities, is evident, in our cities and towns. These aspects are what makes our cities alive each day.

“Drag Queens” is an ongoing typography looking at Drag acts across the UK.

Daniel Patrick Lilley is a portrait and editorial photographer located on the south coast of England. He is currently studying commercial photography at the Arts Institute, Bournemouth.

Osvaldo Manuel Meireles Cipriano was born on January 4, 1982, in Santarem (Portugal), city where he currently lives.