Photography

The ITS Contest collection of contemporary photographs includes 80 authors and 700 prints, both silver and digital. Of multiple origins, both geographical and stylistic, photographers enrolled in ITS from 2005 to represent their discipline. This axis of heritage in the making is representative of the problems of contemporary photography: identity, nomadic spaces, wandering, neglected nature, environment. These are only some of the themes investigated in photography projects. For this exhibition, three photographers have been selected from the collection (Matthieu Lavanchy - James Thom, Silvia Noferi, Yijun Liao). They alone synthesize the spirit and the commitment of the contest.

2008 Matthieu Lavanchy, James Thom

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2008 MATTHIEW LAVANCHY, JAMES THOM
THE OTHER IS A THREAT

Due to an extremely tense political climate during the financial crisis of 2008, it was hard not to give in to fear. We were assailed by mass media with violent and dramatic images that slowly entered our collective consciousness, creating a climate of paranoia. Matthieu Lavanchy and James Thom developed a photo series of fixed images and cold lights, staged as an emotional storytelling to describe the socio-political tension of that year.

2008 Matthieu Lavanchy, James Thom

Posizione attuale Lavanchy:

Freelance fashion Photographer

Posizione attuale Thom:

Art Director and Graphic Designer at James Thom Studio

concept title:

The other is a threat

Concept:

Due to an extremely tense political climate during the financial crisis of 2008, it was hard not to give in to fear. We were assailed by mass media with violent and dramatic images that slowly entered our collective consciousness, creating a climate of paranoia. Matthieu Lavanchy and James Thom developed a photo series of fixed images and cold lights, staged as an emotional storytelling to describe the socio-political tension of that year.

 

 

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2009 Silvia Noferi

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2009 SILVIA NOFERI
ORIGINALITÉ DU RÊVERIE

Silvia’s was a journey inside the unusual, inside the dream, inside originality. Her theatres were made to be found and upon them she staged her models. They are bizarre like the inhabitants of dreams, trying to fuse the border between the real and the imaginary world. Her shots are a view of that border, where a different world reveals itself. A world where originality is both weird and true, just like the Platonic concept of “Idea”. A world where immobility is the origin of every possible movement.

2009 Silvia Noferi

Current position:

Freelance photographer and visual artist
Photographer at Wesual

concept title:

Originalité du rêverie/The originality of Dreams/

Concept:

Silvia’s was a journey inside the unusual, inside the dream, inside originality. Her theatres were made to be found and upon them she staged her models. They are bizarre like the inhabitants of dreams, trying to fuse the border between the real and the imaginary world. Her shots are a view of that border, where a different world reveals itself. A world where originality is both weird and true, just like the Platonic concept of “Idea”. A world where immobility is the origin of every possible movement.

 

 

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2011 Yijun (Pixy) Liao

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2011 YIJUN (PIXY) LIAO
EXPERIMENTAL RELATIONSHIP

As a woman, Yijun used to think she could only fall in love with someone who was older than herself. A protector, a mentor, someone she adored. Then she met her boyfriend Moro, who is 5 years younger. Her whole conception of a relationship was overturned. She was the one with more authority and power. When she told her male friend about her new relationship, he said: “How could you choose a boyfriend the way we choose a girlfriend?!” That’s when she thought: “Damn right, why not?!” Yijun’s photographic series of self-portraits - an ongoing project - questions the stereotypical man- woman relationship to highlight its complexities and the fact that they are not static, rather evolving and open to many different possibilities.

2011 Yijun (Pixy) Liao

Current position:

Freelance Photographer, Actress and Musician

concept title:

Relazione sperimentale

Concept:

Yijun, in quanto donna, pensava di potersi innamorare soltanto di qualcuno che amava follemente, qualcuno più grande di lei, un mentore che la proteggesse. Poi ha incontrato Moro, di cinque anni più giovane, e la sua idea di relazione è cambiata completamente, perché tutto d’un tratto si è ritrovata ad essere lei l’elemento più forte e autoritario della coppia. Parlandone con un amico si è sentita dire: “Come hai potuto scegliere un ragazzo nello stesso modo in cui noi scegliamo una ragazza?!” In quel momento, ha pensato “È proprio vero! E perché no?!”. La serie di autoritratti di Yijun - un progetto in divenire - mette in discussione le relazioni stereotipate tra uomo e donna sottolineandone le complessità, il fatto che non sono statiche ma piuttosto in costante evoluzione, aperte a innumerevoli possibilità.

 

 

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