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© All these photos are printed in a limited edition, in one size only, signed and numbered by the artist
( click on the images on the right side and take a look to other ongoing photo-projects... )
© ROME-BY-BUS 87-70
After “Rome-by-bus 87.70” (now exhibited in Brooklyn, NY until the end of March) and the ongoing project ”Temporary Rome” I’m thrilled to announce other iPhone photo projects, some of them posted also on my FLICKR account.
Some of my clients are choosing between my last works shot and processed on my iPhone camera, focused on food, flowers, cityscape, street photography and documentary.
Always hit by the cultural and visual complexity of the urban environment, I began to concentrate on capturing this frenetic urban experience through the lens of my iPhone mobile camera, trying to develop the art of iPhoneography as another approach to real-time documentary.
© NEW YORK GIRLS 2010 - Part of FASHION DISTRICTS MUP
In my series FASHION DISTRICTS (the last part of my long-term format M.U.P. – an ongoing photo-project started in mid-2005, featured and exhibited in Italy and United States in 2010-11, and part of a photo-book project), I explore the idea of shopping as a contemporary global ritual. From this point of view commerce becomes anything but commonplace.
*This cover picture was taken in New York last September just in front of a work of Barry McGee at the Bowery, not far from Nolita shopping area. Exhibited in New York last december, then selected by the YALE Magazine “Reflections”, it is also the cover of my photo book “New York Citybook“.
© U.C.C. / URBAN COLORS COLLECTION, part of MUP
Be it pink, green or any other colors, here I map a city's style with a very personal touch, trying to explore the mostly ignored beauty of the cities. It's a selection of photographs from New York, London, Paris, Seattle, Tokyo, Vancouver, Berlin, Sydney, and others, where color and different perspectives of urban scape are always cohesive factors.
As a visual teller of tales I created and published these CityBooks to show the impromptu and yet perfect combination between urban vibes, the palette of colors, an abstract collage and a surreal atmosphere of these different cities.
* T his series of photographs was the inspiration for my art work "POSTCARDS FROM A TIMELESS LIFE"
© FASHION DISTRICTS (MUP)
An exploration of contemporary city life from a female perspective - women walking in fashion districts, with an iPhoneography attitude. While travelling around the world with camera in hand, I recorded this contemporary, global phenomenon, "women's time to shop". Shopping is now an essential component of urban reality.
New York, London, Tokyo, are the vibrant cities I explored observing this small female multitudes pervaded by the same intense feeling. So I start to play with the stereotypes and taboos of female psychology.
Here shopping is treated as a phenomenon for artistic interpretation and the expressive use of color is one of the most distinguished figures of my work. An emotional response rather than a slice of reality. An ironic portrait of city girls around the world. Even if in movement the protagonists are drawn into a dialog with the street location.
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© 2008-2010, M.I.U. MY IMAGINARY URBANSCAPE
Spaces here are timeless. Focusing on the key to reading the formal and substantive language of these places, I always search for aesthetic harmony inside and outside of the urban landscapes, even if post-industrial or else.
A breath of reality and a wide angle lens, these images most of all taken with an iPhone, are characterised by surreal athmosphere and purist aestetic, sometimes almost allegorical.
The pictures reflect situations as if captured en passant, in a way that corresponds to the nature of perception. My stylistic range here extends from "street photography" by way of documentary to poetic approaches.
These photos are printed in limited edition only
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© TOKYO GIRLS, 2010 - Part of FASHION DISTRICTS
Tokyo Girls blends the colours of music with the rhythms of the images to tell a story of daily life: here I focused on the ritual of “shopping” in the Japanese female universe.
These images question the cliché that is associated with the concept of “shopping” itself, with the art of commerce in fashion districts, and for me this was the occasion for a picture which reflects an attitude to life, while at the same time representing a piece of our cultural and social history.
Some of these pictures have been exhibited in Rome at ViaGiulia95 Gallery on June-July 2010. Some others in New York in October 2010 for “The Art of Commerce” show at the Manhattan Borough President Gallery and for “New Visions” exhibition at the Durst Org. Gallery (Dec-Jan 2011).
All these photos are printed in limited edition
M.U.P. ART-PROJECT (2005-2010, Part 1/ 2011-12 Part 2)
A long-term art project, started in mid-2005 in the New York Meat Packing District, it's a woman's vision and a kind of personal carthography of emotions (see also the web site: www.mappeurbane.it).
To collectors of my photographs I say "Close your eyes and picture the city as a seductive woman... ". These pictures have been selected showing the beauty of these lost urban spaces as well as the massive transformations that have taken place between 2005 and 2010 ( see the Meatpacking District )
MAPPE URBANE PERSONALI (M.U.P.) has been exhibited in solo and group shows (2008 - 2010) and has been featured in numerous publications, including newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and in two photo-books.
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© TEMPORARY ROME
Looking at Rome with new eyes and a new medium, an Iphone 4 – a project to explore the contemporary and so very hidden spirit of the Eternal City from an evocative, unusual, humorous and strictly personal point of view. In this series every one of the well-known historical spots is re-edited and transformed.
- The first part of this ongoing IPHONEOGRAPHY project of street and urban photography is about the recent use of large scale advertising on buildings under renovation that has radically redesigned the look of the capital for a while. A Temporary portrait of Rome.
© LIFE IS A FLOWER
A series of images about “Flower Power.” This was a commission from a designer for wallpaper, bags, and clothing.
The concept of “flower” here is magical and yet real, timeless as well as bound in time, a way to not only show the beauty but also the art in the creative power of nature.
WE HAVE A DREAM...
This project was published by a series of national Italian magazines between 1989 and 2010. I worked in different countries and crisis areas such as Bosnia, India, Cuba, Morocco, Mexico, Vietnam, Brazil, Cambodia, etc., where I always asked the children I met to share on of their “secret dreams” in exchange for their portrait.
* These photo-reportages were awarded the Fata Morgana Prize 2006 by the LIONS CLUB
MARRAKECH CITYBOOK,
The M.U.P. Project series of books published by the indie web Press MUP
2008 © Marina Misiti
LONDON CITYBOOK
T he M.U.P. Project series of books published by the indie web Press MUP
2006-2010 © Marina Misiti
TOKYO CITY BOOK
2010 © Marina Misiti
TRAVEL BOOK
SANTORINI, Greece 2007
© Marina Misiti
MEXICO 2006-2008
I’m a journalist, a writer and an eclectic visual artist and interior stylist. I graduated with honours from La Sapienza University in Rome, specializing in Visual Anthropology. Having left the corporate media world upon travelling as a writer, photographer and stylist – focused on travel, interiors & lifestyle -, I spent most of my life going back and forth between native Italy and other Countries.
ABOUT WRITING: for the last two decades I have written extensively for publications such as “Paese Sera”, “Sette/Corriere della Sera”, “Marie Claire”, “Elle”, “Grazia”, “Gioia”, “Nigrizia”, “Viaggiando”, “E’Lifestyle”, amongs many others, as a feature writer & contributing editor; I also worked for publishing houses as creative director (Theoria, etc.), as press officer (RAI tv, Ministers, etc.) and as freelance interior stylist. In 2008 I launched the widely read blog “Donne con la valigia“, which led to the publication of my book “Donne con la valigia” (The Little Pink Book, Astraea Ed, 2009).
ABOUT VISUAL: I created the MUP City Guides, a long-term project based on my emotional visual maps: some of these urban images “Mappe Urbane Personali” have been exhibited all around the world. I also published 4 photo books in a limited edition (three illustrated travel guides from MUP Project: New York, Tokyo, London; and one from Rome-by-bus 87/70 iphone photo project).
I’m an Italian Professional Journalist, a PWP (Professional Women Photographers) member, and a LIP (London Indipendent Photography) member. I was awarded theFata Morgana Photoreportages Prize by the LIONS CLUB in 2006, and I received the Woman of the Year 2008 Award by Aljon Publisher.
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all images © Marina Misiti
