When Tilda Swinton was “swallowed up” by a fashion magazine

When Tilda Swinton was “swallowed up” by a fashion magazine

Andrea Tuzio · 12 months ago · Style

To talk about this surreal story we must first introduce you to Joanna Hogg
Born in London in 1960, daughter of the vice-president of an insurance agency, she attended elementary school at the prestigious West Heath School, an independent school in Sevenoaks, Kent. After graduating she moved to Florence where she studied photography and where she began to take an interest in cinema. She directed short experimental films in super 8 and one of these, dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Ron Haselden, gave her the opportunity to enrol at the National Film and Television School in London in 1982. For her thesis exam, Hogg directed the short film Caprice, starring what would later become one of the most talented and charismatic actresses of the last 10 years, Tilda Swinton, and this is where our story begins.

Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg met for the first time right at West Heath School, they were in class together in elementary school – with them there was also Diana Spencer, yes that Diana.
According to Swinton, their relationship was one of “mutual hatred” but that actually hid an intrinsic bond based on the feelings of discomfort and embarrassment they both felt at the time in a very elite environment. Hogg changed schools during her teenage years and the two lost touch. In 1986, however, Joanna chose 26-year-old Tilda to star – effectively launching her career – in her film/dissertation, with which she went on to pass her final exam at the National Film and Television School. 

 
 
 
 
 
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Caprice is a 26-minute short film in which the protagonist Lucky is literally swallowed up by the pages of a fashion magazine that gives the film its title. Matilda Swinton – so credited in the titles – moves through dreamlike atmospheres, crossing the different articles of the magazine: she finds herself involved in a high fashion editorial, in a New Wave dance and in a thousand other contexts typical of a magazine that deals with fashion. Lucky is Caprice‘s “number 1” reader and throughout the film it almost seems as if this passion of hers, which has led her to be swallowed up by the magazine itself, wears her down little by little. “At the heart of it is the pressure placed on a young woman by advertising to behave and look a certain way,” said Hogg. “I was really interested in the way a young woman thinks about herself, or the self-doubt about how she looks and how she looks. And then the contradiction in me at that time of really being interested in fashion and fashion magazines. I wanted to embrace the contradiction that I felt as a young woman who loved fashion magazines, but also understand the dark side of what they represented to someone who was desperate to be accepted”. 

Like a new Alice in Wonderland, Lucky enters a world that fascinates her but at the same time consumes and frightens her. A “playful but also very serious” story that deals with extremely contemporary and latent themes of the world of communication related to fashion, in an exaggerated and surreal key.

Hogg and Swinton will continue to work together over the years. The latest film directed by Joanna Hogg, for example, The Souvenir: Part II, stars Swinton and her daughter Honor as a film student. Tilda Swinton commented on her participation in this film closing a circle opened at the time of the West Heath School: “It is a kind of miracle for me to see the story of my oldest friend traced by my own daughter with such grace and understanding”.

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Gender Theory, the photographic project by Rossella Agostini

Gender Theory, the photographic project by Rossella Agostini

Claudia Fuggetti · 1 week ago · Photography

“How would we live if we didn’t have pre-established gender models?”

This is the question posed by the project Gender Theory by the photographer and filmmaker Rossella Agostini. After graduating in photography from Columbia College in Chicago, the artist decided to focus her research on the celebration of the individual as such and his relationship with the surrounding world.

The exploration of interpersonal relationships is highlighted by a type of aesthetics that prefers subjects visible from afar placed in empty spaces: together with the enhancement of beauty out of the ordinary Rossella thus creates a narrative coherence. The artist has described her photographic series as follows:

“Gender Theory” is a photo series that rejects the idea that gender is strictly binary by exploring a reality where identity is not socially constructed. It touches upon the issues of gender and sexuality and demonstrates how the biological sex, gender identity and gender expression are not always aligned”.

Through an elegant role-playing game, Rossella’s images tell a story capable of reaching the public immediately, it is no coincidence that Gender Theory won the London Photo Festival in 2018.

Visit the artist’s website here.

Gender Theory, il progetto fotografico di Rossella Agostini | Collater.al
Gender Theory, il progetto fotografico di Rossella Agostini | Collater.al
Gender Theory, il progetto fotografico di Rossella Agostini | Collater.al
Gender Theory, il progetto fotografico di Rossella Agostini | Collater.al
Gender Theory, il progetto fotografico di Rossella Agostini | Collater.al
Gender Theory, il progetto fotografico di Rossella Agostini | Collater.al
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Everything we saw at Linecheck

Everything we saw at Linecheck

Anna Frattini · 4 days ago · Photography

We have already talked about Linecheck, the event dedicated to the Italian and international music ecosystem. We attended the event ourselves, and – through the lens of Andrés Juan Suarez – this is what we saw. We breathed in an air of novelty in an occasion for meeting and discussion that allowed us to discover new talents and many of the emerging musical trends. In short, an unmissable event within the framework of Milan Music Week. Our favorite performances were those of Daniela Pes, 72-HOUR POST FIGHT, and Post Nebbia. This year’s theme was #ManyKisses, with the intention of seeing music as an ecosystem: a polyamorous community that grows through continuous dialogue among its members, the circulation of inspiring and creative energy, along with the exchange between established personalities on the scene and emerging artists.

ph. Andrés Juan Suarez

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Bodies in freedom, photography by Lucas Cerri

Bodies in freedom, photography by Lucas Cerri

Giulia Guido · 1 day ago · Photography

Lucas Cerri is a French photographer, born in Cannes, who ranges from travel photography to portraits, but the vocation for this art came almost by chance. 

In fact, Lucas was born as a musician, then over time, in addition to expressing emotions, thoughts and feelings through notes and melodies, he also began to do through images. 

Since then, whether analogue or digital, the camera has always been part of his days. 

Scrolling through his website and delving into his portfolio we can immediately see how Lucas Cerri manages to range from travel photography, with which he takes us to every corner of the world, from Iceland to the United States, from warm Portugal to cold Norway, to intimate and delicate portraits. 

Among his works the nude plays a predominant role and the body, with its shapes and lines, becomes almost a sculpture to be captured in all its naturalness. Often, the bodies he takes are immersed in nature, almost overwhelmed by it, and looking at Lucas Cerri’s photographs we feel that sense of freedom that we feel when we dive into the deep waters of the sea, or when we run through desolate fields. 

Below you can find a selection of shots, but to discover all the works of Lucas Cerri visit his site and follow him on Instagram

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What happens when the phone gallery becomes a photo project?

What happens when the phone gallery becomes a photo project?

Giorgia Massari · 4 hours ago · Photography

«A risky project, a bit like writing,» Catanian photographer Salvo Sibilla explains when talking to us about his street photography project entitled Sani e Salvi. It is a project that was not born to be so. A collection of private amateur shots, taken with an iPhone, that take on a public dimension. It all begins in 2020 when Salvo starts shooting on the street, partly to seek company in a new city-which in the case of Milan is capable of making you feel very lonely, and partly to capture the extravagance around him that he was not used to. In the summer of 2022 he decided to go public and share part of his smartphone gallery. Salvo encapsulates in one project his amateur shots “full of lights, faces and lives,” as his collaborator and friend Loris Di Bella puts it. Stripped of their intimate dimension, the “anti-ethical” photographs – using Salvo’s words – come to life by dialoguing with each other and realizing the presence of a great common denominator: immediacy layered with extravagance.

Sani e Salvi does not stay only in Milan. He travels different streets and different cities, from Milan to Amsterdam, from Rotterdam to Sestri Levante, from Finale Ligure to Pedara, and finally from Bologna to Catania, Salvo Sibilla’s hometown. Salvo’s favorite subjects are elderly people, he himself tells us the reason for this choice. «The first reason, the most human one, is because they remind me of my grandparents, the people I miss the most since I moved to Milan. I am a very romantic person, so I look for this aspect in my shots as well. In older people I find the same pure and kind soul of my grandparents».

This project becomes for Salvo Sibilla a kind of adaptation therapy in a new city. Coming from Catania and landing in Milan, the cultural differences are many. «I liked walking in the street and observing everything around me. Coming from a small town like Catania, unfortunately you are born with stereotypes and mental limitations. When I arrived in Milan, these visual limits began to fall away, all those aspects that I initially judged as extravagances became normality today». The photographs thus become a way of relating to the new everyday life and, at the same time, of discovering a new city. In this sense, it is interesting to emphasize Salvo Sibilla’s photographic approach, which he himself describes as “somewhat anti-ethical.” «My technique is to act like a tourist. I stop by pretending to look for a street and take the photograph of the person, very closely,» he explains, «Very often older people do not notice it, as well as my grandparents although they, with time, have learned to recognize my methodology and now they are very happy when I take them, they feel a bit like the protagonists».

«Sani e Salvi can be said to have been born recently and still has everything to discover and to have come to the end, gaining wisdom,» we read again in Loris Di Bella’s text. Therefore, the project does not end here; on the contrary, it becomes for Salvo Sibilla a starting point that has taught him «to never give up,» as Salvo confesses to us, who closes the interview by quoting the phrase of a friend of his: “keep doing what you do regardless of everything and everyone.”

Courtesy Salvo Sibilla

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