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Creative Affirmations

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This is a list that I’m collecting and keeping updated about the creative affirmations that will help you, and have helped me, to keep myself in balance during the creation of my work. Allow yourself to make mistakes. Nobody can always be right and perfect and amazing: this is a ridiculous expectation. Read this good  …

False Negative Beliefs: The Enemy

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This is a list that I’m collecting and keeping updated about the negative beliefs that drawn you while you are creating new work: The goal of art is not about being famous,the reward is in the act of doing the work. There are a lot of false beliefs about being famous: We think that is  …

LEARNING THE PROCESS TOO: chewing your ideas in struggle

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25th January 2011, New York From a letter to my partner. My first post, before going deeper in the process of creating a body of work, it’s about the struggle of creating it. When I talk about Photography, I’m talking about creating a visual body of work that is able to express something extremely unique  …

LEARNING THE PROCESS TOO: Why I write

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“Why shall I write? and for who? English is not even my native language… I’m going to make myself ridiculous and to sound presumptuous… I’m sick of the overwhelming bullshit going on in internet, why shall add mine too?” I tried many times to write something for my website about photography, and every time I felt  …

Who’s that Dragon ?

So, here we were, uncomfortably in the middle of the cold winter, the teacher Greg Miller and us in the friday afternoon course.

In february 2011 I was attending the ICP full-time program in social documentary photography. I had made already my registrations for the term when somebody mentioned to me a “Large Format Course”. I honestly thought that Large Format was the wrong format for my photography because I used to not interact at all with my  …

Truth and Speculation (answering Alec Soth and Errol Morris)

Alec Soth from "Last Days of W." Shot in a Baptist Church in Minnesota the picture symbolize an entire moment in history for USA.

I want to comment what Alec Soth wrote in his blog Little Brown Mushroom quoting Errol Morris. Photographs are neither true nor false. (They have no truth-value.) The intentions of the photographer are not recorded in a photographic image. (You can imagine what they are, but it’s pure speculation). About the truth of photographs, I  …