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An Interview with Ciro Battiloro
ciro battiloroDecember 20th, 2019interviewCiro Battiloro (b. 1984) is an Italian photographer based in Naples. In his work he analyses the human being and its relationships, lived in contexts of discomfort and social neglect. Recently,...
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Paranoid Sleep Psychosis: An Interview With Liza Ambrossio
liza ambrossioOctober 23rd, 2019interviewLiza Ambrossio (b. 1993, Mexico) lives and works between Madrid and Paris. She began her artistic practice in Mexico City at the age of sixteen, when she asked a housekeeper to steal photographs...
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RHOME: An interview with Caimi & Piccinni
jean marc caimivalentina piccinniApril 12th, 2019Jean-Marc Caimi (b. 1966, France) and Valentina Piccinni (b. 1982, Italy) are an artist duo who started collaborating in 2013 for projects focused both on documentary and more personal, intimate photography. Their new project RHOME is a journey through the multiple microcosms of Rome, moving far...
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A.L.M.A.: An interview with Mar Martín
mar martínJuly 18th, 2018interviewMar Martín (b. 1984), a Spanish photographer living in Berlin, has a cinematographic approach to photography. Her aesthetics are surreal and futuristic, her stories are open to interpretation. Her images are metaphors, giving the viewer the freedom to imagine the possible development of the...
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Females
ornella mazzolaJuly 12th, 2018Ornella Mazzola (b. 1984), an Italian photographer from Palermo, Sicily, is an artist who focuses on an intimate and human look. Her series Females is a portrait of women in Mazzola’s family, but it’s also broader than that. What started as a personal diary, ended up being a poetic yet strong...
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Piedras Negras
lina pallottaFebruary 6th, 2017On the cusp of the January 1994 signing of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement, between Canada Mexico, and the US), Italian photographer Lina Pallotta visited the small Mexican town of Piedras Negras. Pallotta, interested in understanding what the trade agreement would mean for local...
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Broken But Still Working: An Interview with Carlo Rainone
carlo rainoneJanuary 17th, 2017interviewNapoli-born Carlo Rainone (b. 1989) is a documentary photographer working on long-term stories that explore the sense of identity and cultural belonging. After completing his studies in Computer Information Systems at Arizona State University, he moved to Istanbul, where he followed the uprising...
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The Light of Iceland: An Interview with Andrea Roversi
andrea roversiMay 30th, 2016interviewAndrea Roversi (b. 1983) is a freelance photographer based in Rome, Italy. After studying Photojournalism at Scuola Romana di Fotografia in Rome, he received a special mention at the 2013 Fotografia Festival of Rome for his first body of work, Once Upon a Time. His project Dauðalogn, on rural...
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An Alternative Police Report: An Interview with Mariano Silletti
mariano sillettiFebruary 5th, 2016interviewMariano Silletti (1972, Italy) joined the Carabinieri, the national military police of Italy, at a young age, in 1991. He later studied photography, and has now come to combine these two aspects of his life, making artwork of his police work. In his series Ludovicu, he tracks the case of a...
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The Beautiful War: An Interview with Claudia Gori
claudia goriNovember 5th, 2015interviewClaudia Gori is an emerging photographer born in Prato (Italy) in 1986. After studying Journalism at La Sapienza University, and photography at the CSF Adams in Rome, in 2014 she attended the International Programme in Photojournalism and Advanced Visual Storytelling at the Danish School of Media...
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Albania: Living in Oblivion
jan zappnerJune 7th, 2015Jan Zappner (1973, Czech Republic) is a Berlin-based freelance photographer, working for newspapers / magazines and corporate clients. When working on his own projects, he concentrates on social topics mainly from Eastern Europe. In this series shot in Albania over 2010-2012, Zappner looks at a...
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Children of Siberia: An Interview with Tomasz Lazar
tomasz lazarApril 12th, 2015interviewOn February 10, 1940, the USSR undertook acts of repression on Polish lands against Poles and Polish citizens. Around 2 million people were exiled into the USSR, 25% of them children, with the goal being the extermination of the political and economic elites as well as ethnic cleansing. 75 years...
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The Ritual of a Fictional Femininity: An Interview with Sean Lee
sean leeNovember 1st, 2014interviewSingapore-based photographer Sean Lee (1985) was one of the photographers selected for Slideluck Warsaw in October 2014, with his project Shauna. Between 2007 and 2009, Sean created another persona based on himself who was a woman: Shauna. The work began in the red light district in Siem Reap,...
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Family Reflections: An interview with Alfonso Almendros
alfonso almendrosSeptember 18th, 2013interviewAlfonso Almendros is an emerging photographer from Spain who lives and works in Helsinki. He presented his series Family Reflections at Slideluck London earlier this year, a series of provocative portraits in gloomy colours and a dilapidated setting. He speaks in this interview with Maria Teresa...
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365
alexander aksakovJuly 31st, 2013365, the first full-length book published by Akina Books, is a journey through one year of life in the company of young Russians who have been drafted into the military with only "a uniform, a pair of boots, a box of dry rations and a chance to pay our 'debts' to the motherland".Alexander...
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An Interview with Phillip Toledano
phillip toledanoApril 2nd, 2013interviewFor A New Kind of Beauty, Phillip Toledano (1968, United Kingdom) portrayed men and women who had exposed themselves to a very unusual and provocative form of body modification that inevitably prompts questions on the dynamic human notion of aesthetics.Each of the subjects has undergone a number...
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An interview with Cristina De Middel
cristina de middelJanuary 17th, 2013interviewCristina De Middel is a Spanish photographer based in London who has been working for the past 10 years as documentary photographer and photojournalist for various newspapers and NGO’s around the world. Her self-published book The Afronauts was critically acclaimed, making it to the top of many...
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Interview with Alvaro Laiz
alvaro laizSeptember 9th, 2012interviewIn his project 'Transmongolian' Alvaro Laiz (Spain, 1981) depicts a world of solitude and crushed dreams within the Mongolian community of homosexuals and transgender. Maria Teresa Salvati, Director of the Slideluck Potshow in London, interviewed him.Some of the images from this project are on...
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Interview with Melissa Cacciola
melissa cacciolaJune 6th, 2012interviewNew York based photographer Melissa Cacciola specialises in tin-type and nineteenth-century photographic processes. Through portraiture, her work offers an archaeological snapshot of how we view ourselves and others against the digital era. During the last edition of Slideluck Potshow London,...
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Interview with Anastasia Taylor-Lind
anastasia taylor lindFebruary 9th, 2012interviewAnastasia Taylor-Lind (1981, England/Sweden) is a photojournalist and documentary photographer for VII Photo Agency, currently based in London. In a conversation with Maria Teresa Salvati from the London Slideluck Potshow, Anastasia elaborates on her report of Egyptian Bloggers - a commissioned...
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