bohoe
photography

The new image in Italy 1932-1960

Neorealism, mainly associated with the films by Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini, was a heartfelt artistic response to the transformation of Italy in the course of the twentieth century. With the demise of Fascism, which had harnessed the mass media of photography and film for its own purposes and moulded a new aesthetic of reality, Neorealism surged to the fore. The newfound freedom of opinion and the need to forge a new Italian identity fuelled a feverish interest in documenting reality and exploring what it meant to be Italian. One after another, illustrated magazines were launched and photographic-ethnographic field studies undertaken on life in the country’s remote communities. Society needed photographs that captured all aspects of life in every situation.

The exhibition and accompanying publication bring together some 250 photographs by 75 different photographers, making this the first major in-depth presentation of photographic Neorealism. Six authors chart the development of Neorealism from its inception to the late 1950s, shedding light on the reciprocal influences of photography, film and literature.
The exhibition is curated by Enrica Viganò. It has been organised in collaboration with SEPIF s.a.s. (‹Studi e Progetti in Fotografia›), Turin, and La Fábrica, Madrid.

Fotomuseum Winterthur (Main Gallery and Gallery)

These are some old video projects I did for college and clients, some based on photo-animation, some just plain short films.

Reverse Perspective Interactive Holograms, 2005.



Promotion for Interactive Holographic advertisement, produced by me for Reverse Perspective in 2005.

Waiting for the Luas, 2005.



What do you do in the coldest winter’s night? You get your friends to pose for you at the Luas station, in front of the already-gone Fatima Mansions, and convince them to do what you say because it makes sense. Thanks to Thomas and Michael.

The project was to develop a narrative through photographs on a video’s time-line. Rather than creating different scenes, I decided to try phoho-animation. I never added sound to it.

Unfortunately, the compression of the AVI file I uploaded provoked a weird flow of frames. Well, is very close to the real thing.

Coffee, 2005.



As above, the idea was to create a narrative through photographs in a time-line. It is about the magic of the everyday.

Bread: Food For Life, 2004.


This is a series of 3 ads done for a project at college, not at all associated with thehungersite.com (unfortunatelly!), and were never intended to be published.
The theme was ‘Bread: the food of life’. I created these mock-up TV advertisements based on the idea of the inexpensiveness of bread being a luxury for too many.

Bread: Food For Life I

Bread: Food For Life II

Bread: Food For Life II

By Bohoe

So, we already have seen a good few bunch of ads from Dove teaching us how to find ourselves beautiful no matter how low our self-esteem may be. It seems like a good aproach to marketing, and it feels honest. While there is a flair of ethical approach to marketing their products, one can only guess this is only a vague intention. Or is it deeper that that?
I always thought that I could not sell anything I wouldnt sell to my family. To see the consumer as an object brings many dangers. To see the consumer as your brother/sister can only bring ethical results. No more food with non-fair trade ingredients or uggly chemicals; no more contracts with hidden catches; no more wolves dressed up as sheep.

´Real Women have real bodies with real curves´

Refried and mashed up:

Evolution of a billboard model.

Beauty has no age limits.

TV commercial to learn about the issue of low self-esteem among young girls

And a short movie

Well, if you are bored to death and have nothing better to do, scan ALL your books, CDs, movies and games with your webcam, and have them digitally referenced in the well designed Delicious Library. You can enjoy a new visual way to track who did you lend your belongins too, and when.

The program can read the bar code of your items (Beep!) and search for info in Amazon’s massive database -but items may not be found if they are rare! Still, next time your buddy comes asking for your precious King Crimson CD, add him to your list of you-owe-mes, and discover he didnt return yet your copy of Five Obstructions, a film you thought it was lost.

Now, you can open your trully Professional Lending Library.

You could also be using Post-its, but that is so passé composé!

Via Delicious Monster
See David Pogue’s Podcast, from the New York Times, on Delicious Library

“Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting” online. Great, where? at Neighbourhood Fix-It. This is the story of a site built by mySociety. They build websites which give people “simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives”. As far as I know it only relates to the UK, but it serves as a good example of what the future of the internet will be like. We need more practical sites that allow us to improve our everyday experiences, and better communicate with those on power. Another great example is WriteToThem, where you can contact your Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs, or Northern Ireland, Welsh and London AMs for free. Very well done!

More community sites at mySociety projects.

“Dear Voter,

Do you know who you will vote for next Thursday 24th May? Do you even know for sure what the main parties really stand for? Wouldn’t it be handy if you could compare each of them side-by-side, issue-by-issue? Yes, it would.

So to that end, dear voter, I introduce to you Fx3 VoteAssist.”

Sponsored by Fingal Fitted Furniture, this downloadable software will help you to decide by giving scores to the actual polocies that the parties themselves emphasise in their manifestos, and not to their image campaign.

Lets try it.

An incredible project started more than 6 years ago, Noah Kalina takes a picture of himself everyday. 2356 pictures so far.
He always uses the same framing, so his face is centered in the picture. I discovered this via a friend that actually sent me a link to the video Noah put together with all his pics, and that is available at YouTube. I thought it may be a good idea to post it here - It will remind me to keep an eye on his progress over the next years. I also like the soundtrack (kind of Philip Glass).
http://everyday.noahkalina.com