Andy Warhol, the Polaroid Big Shot and fashion photography
A sourced reading of Andy Warhol’s use of the Polaroid Big Shot and a personal reflection on instant photography in the De Couture Bags campaign.
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Photography, fashion and identity
Portraiture, the body and fashion when they cease to be surface. A path through photography as a construction of identity and a form of encounter.
When the portrait stops protecting us
World Press Photo’s 2026 rules on posing, retouching, consent and AI reopen the question of authenticity, from Mindful Portraits to the Strappi.
Read →Yves Saint Laurent and photography
An ICP exhibition in New York retraces forty years of Yves Saint Laurent through photographs, contact sheets and magazines. It is close to my own work: in the Strappi I tear and repaint those polished fashion images to find out what remains beneath their perfection.
Read →Barbara Martusciello on Tales of Humans in a Landscape
Critic and curator Barbara Martusciello reads Tales of Humans in a Landscape as Massimo Scognamiglio’s most mature project: an artistic photographic practice independent of fashion, built through diptychs, triptychs and desaturated colour fields.
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Identity, the face and representation
Portraiture as encounter, fashion as public image, the body as a site of transformation. Mindful Portraits and Punk Aristocracy question what we show and what remains invisible.
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Riders on the Storm
Riders on the Storm explores identity, visibility and urban life among Rome’s Bangladeshi delivery riders.
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