ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Serie inspired by Jo Champa-Helmut Newton "Chelsea Hotel" shot in 1988 for Vogue magazine.
The challenge is to get the Master's mood like from analogic/instant shoots as is, no postproduction and/or manipulation.
Polaroid SLR-680 camera; The Impossible Project b/w 600 gen 2.0 film.

AUTHOR
Patrizio Cipollini started shooting in 1975 with a borrowed camera and soon learned how to develop B&W films and print photos, both for himself and for other amateur photographers. He bought his first Olympus OM1 camera in 1977. Patrizio shoot, developed, printed and sold his first chronicle/reportage photo to IL TEMPO newspaper in the late 70. Half day working to sell a photo: it was the "analogic B/W era". Influenced by Fontana's minimalist and saturated shoots, he started using Kodak Ektachrome 64 slides during the 80s: his ghaphic and colorful compositions earned him several amateur prizes and honorable mentions. Patrizio started his digital-era late, around 2005; at the end of the decade he focused on and experimented the potential of low-resolution cellphone cameras, much before the latest smartphones built-in photo manipulation apps. In 2011 he went back to analogic media, falling in love with old polaroids - both instant (peel-off) and integral (SX-70) processes, and he is now an active member of Polaroiders community (www.polaroiders.it). In 2013 he started workshops on Polaroid history, cameras, shooting and some image manipulation and lifting. Several Patrizio's photos have been published by IL MANIFESTO newspaper. Since November 2013 a selection of Patrizio's Polaroid Film Lifting have been available at Carlo Gallerati Gallery (Rome, Italy). Patrizio has also been cited as one of the emerging photographers in the volume written by Enzo Carli, "Quella porta sullo sguardo. Viaggio breve nella fotografia artistica italiana" (Ideas, 2014). Patrizio is shooting digital only as a still photographer in movies productions actually.

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