Mobiles are constantly reframing the way we interact with reality and each other. I’m a transitional, I started to use a mobile at 18 y/o it was as big as a banana, unfortunately not yellow, I used to forget it everywhere and typing SMS took me forever, today .. is a different story! I have a camera always at hand plus I can post and share my shots on the go. Add to that tons of fun apps to experiment with, spice it with a pool of likeminded geeks responding to your work and posting inspiring snaps.. got the picture?

iPhone art photography is an open contest I recently organized with llot creative network to promote research results and stimulate further interest in new media and social networking in relation to art and photography. The project in less then a week has collected many pictures and the participants have responded very well with discussion about post production, editing and software (Apps) used in their arts.

This is the first winner for best of the week, a great shot of the Louvre by Olivier Chatel with Hipstamatic App

Many consider the camera phone an inappropriate tool for photography, not to mention art. To cut a long story short I’d say art was never about dpi, ppi or megapixel.

“‘Album covers’ are now 50 pixel-wide pictures on their iPods, not gatefold cardboard experiences. Digital ‘stuff’ is home, not away and it’s unlikely that they’re drawn to design via traditional means. ‘Doing a nice bit of print’ is more a creative curiosity rather than a craving.”

— Johnson Bank’s adaptation of a recent article by Michael Johnson for Design Week

Many people are experimenting and doing a great work, here a few : David Hockney, Dennis Dunleavy, Matt Bango.
The contest is open to everyone, do participate!  ^__^ 533NEKTJT2EN

16 Red Snappers stop motion. UK 2009.

llot presents Thomas Colombo preparing a 16 Red Snappers cocktail, bloody shaken and evilly spiced at Bar Sixteen, Derby, UK. More juicy stop motion coming soon ..

Warp visions, here and there trough 2009

I love photography, I take tons of pictures, I’m self-taught and I often try random approaches, is very time consuming and soo tasty! Trough the years I found I definitely favor the most unpredictable results, light and time are grate tools to reveal a whole new vision. I love bending shapes and colors: the distance between photography and painting gets thiner and I can’t wait to see what coms out!

Filipe Faísca Moda Lisboa 2008 pictures and video editing Laura Veronesi

Moda Lisboa. Lisbon 2008

On March 2008 I was helping with Moda Lisboa viral campaign, taking atmosphere pictures, bringing up a Facebook campaign and so on. I had the pleasure to discover Portuguese fashion and I obviously felt in love with Filipe Fàisca‘s creations and Christian Louboutin outrageous shoes

four recipes, four colors, four pictures, a book, an event .

The project, explores different perceptions through multiple ways of communication.
Monochromes unfold its message through several key points in the attempt to stimulate the reader’s taste.
As other traditional form of art, food can reflect a people or an age culture.
In the contemporary society, mass-medias provide culture in shining packages, as quick and nourishing as fast food products.
We swallow everything without giving any attention.
Monochromes presents the food in a distort and unrecognizable form as a warning of the poor respect and  consideration that we give to it. Monochromes intends to show our difficulty to recognize what can really feed our body and our soul and it tries to lead us to an aesthetic experience, through a path towards the abstraction of pure form.

Monochromes, Italy  2007

I had the pleasure to join Roberto Abbadati (Chef) Giovanna Magri (photographer) and Luca Pedrotti (Graphic designer) in this art book project. Roberto asked me to put on paper the aesthetic concept . The book was presented at FolliFollie store (Brescia, Italy) in 2007 where I took the chance to document the event , the following year was exhibited at Arte Bianca XII 2008 and Eventi Fuori Salore (Mialno, Italy).