FC Talk - season 2, episode 5 is on line
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

FC Talk - season 2, episode 5 is on line

June was full of wins : new publications, three images exhibited at the London Photo Show, but July brought a wasp emergency, a hospital dash, and a costly but necessary leap into art marketing coursework. This episode of FC Talk looks at reputation, resilience, and the quiet determination it takes to keep making art in Italy. Plus: what's next before the August pause.

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Notes from a Practice - How to make it into art photography in 2026
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Notes from a Practice - How to make it into art photography in 2026

The final chapter in a three-part essay on breaking into the art world in 2026. AI companies threaten photographers' ownership of their own craft, while the traditional gallery and auction routes grow overcrowded. A look at why the old paths are failing new artists, and what it actually takes to build a sustainable, sales-driven practice outside the usual channels.

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Notes from a Practice – All the Meaning You Need to Succeed in Photography
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Notes from a Practice – All the Meaning You Need to Succeed in Photography

Part two of my career-focused essay series. Technique alone won't build a photography career, what matters is finding the personal clarity behind why you create. A look at portfolio-building, the AI disruption ahead, and the specific bind of being a nude photographer in a landscape built for everything else. Part three, on progressing toward sales, comes next.

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Notes from a Practice – How Vast Is the Photography World Outside the Sterile Boundaries of Technically Exact Photography
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Notes from a Practice – How Vast Is the Photography World Outside the Sterile Boundaries of Technically Exact Photography

Photography doesn't end where technical perfection begins — it starts there. This essay traces a path through plastic lenses, large format cameras, darkroom alchemy, and hand-printed textures, arguing that the real question was never about gear or settings, but why an image was made the way it was, and what it means.

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Meta cancels the Muse image controversial feature, are we safe now?
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Meta cancels the Muse image controversial feature, are we safe now?

Meta just withdrew its controversial Muse Image feature that let anyone generate AI images from public Instagram accounts. I break down what happened, test whether the opt-out settings actually work, and explain why photographers and models should stay alert — this isn't over yet.

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Notes from a practice: The importance of focus in a photographer’s career
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Notes from a practice: The importance of focus in a photographer’s career

Camera brands sell speed, autofocus, and codecs — but a photographer's career isn't built on gear. It's built on mental focus: knowing your genre, its history, and how its market actually works today. From fashion to fine art nude, the real skill is navigating a market with far more than twenty routes to sell your work, not just the old handful everyone tries first.

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Notes from a practice: the Importance of a Photograph's Destination
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Notes from a practice: the Importance of a Photograph's Destination

What separates photographers who grow from those who stay stuck? I reflect on a simple but transformative idea: thinking about where your photographs are meant to end up before you even shoot. From scattered beginnings to specialization, portfolios, and the deeper completion that comes from mastering one genre — this is a personal essay on purpose, growth, and printing your work.

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London Photo Show 2026 has started
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

London Photo Show 2026 has started

My work is on a gallery wall in London for the first time. A triptych of my artistic nude images is part of the London Photo Show 2026 at Hoxton Arches, Cremer Street, running until Sunday 28th June, 11am–6pm, free entry. A personal milestone. If you happen to be nearby, go and see them — and let me know what you think.

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Notes from a practice – Why the female nude body?
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Notes from a practice – Why the female nude body?

Fine art nude photography is too often misunderstood: by the market, by the internet, and by many who practice it. In this essay I explore why a sapiosexual photographer chooses the female body as his primary subject, what the nude can express that other portraiture cannot, and what personal and cultural forces shape the work I make.

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A moment of improved clarity in my fine art photography practice
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

A moment of improved clarity in my fine art photography practice

A light painting session and its first edits brought an unexpected moment of clarity: what these images are, what they refuse to be, and why the darkness in them is a vocabulary rather than a flaw. On shadow, gesture, print, and the ancient goddess who gave the work its name.

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Artistonish magazine #70, May 2026 is out!
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Artistonish magazine #70, May 2026 is out!

Announcing the availability of the 70th Artistonish magazine issue feauturing one of my light painting images. A leap for my artistic photography career and an happy moment to celebrate together.

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Who and why I am as an artistic nude photographer
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Who and why I am as an artistic nude photographer

A photographer's manifesto in progress: why the nude, what I know about narrative and craft, and where the horizon is still unclear. Personal drives, clear positions, and open questions from an artistic nude photographer navigating identity, process, and an art world reshaped by artificial intelligence.

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A pictorialist of our times: Paolo Roversi
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

A pictorialist of our times: Paolo Roversi

Paolo Roversi, born in Ravenna in 1947, is one of fashion photography's most distinctive voices. Working with large format Deardorff cameras and large format Polaroid instant film, his pictorialist approach — blurred, overexposed, painterly — has shaped decades of fashion imagery for houses like Dior, Armani and Yves Saint Laurent.

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FC-Talk is back: Season 2, Episode 4 is live
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

FC-Talk is back: Season 2, Episode 4 is live

FC-Talk Season 2 Episode 4 is live. May brought a flu, two publications, and hard thoughts on Google's AI pivot and what it means for artists building an international presence from a distance. Vertigo part three: setbacks, momentum, and why Autumn 2026 looks very promising.

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Fever talk
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Fever talk

A brief dispatch from the sickbed: the flu has grounded me and now claimed my mother too. This week's Paolo Roversi article will not appear on schedule — he deserves better than a feverish tribute. A solitary tree against a burning sky says it better than words could. We return when we can do it justice.

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Pictorialism in Europe: Robert Demachy
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Pictorialism in Europe: Robert Demachy

Robert Demachy, the French Pictorialist photographer born into wealth and freed from every material constraint, devoted his life to elevating photography into art through alchemical printing techniques. This article explores his biography, his photographic philosophy and the striking relevance of his ideas in today's world of AI-threatened image making.

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F. Holland Day: Beauty, Belief, and the Male Form
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

F. Holland Day: Beauty, Belief, and the Male Form

F. Holland Day was a leading Pictorialist photographer and a pioneer in the fight for photography as fine art. Eclipsed by Stieglitz, nearly erased by fire and history, his vision of beauty, belief and the male form remains a powerful lesson for any photographer today.

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Alfred Cheney Johnston: Beauty as Artifice, Nudity as Art
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

Alfred Cheney Johnston: Beauty as Artifice, Nudity as Art

Alfred Cheney Johnston, official photographer of the Ziegfeld Follies, built his career on beauty, artifice and a painterly vision of the nude that institutional photography chose to ignore. A Pictorialist working stubbornly against the tide of modernism, his rediscovered work challenges us to reconsider what fine art nude photography can and should be.

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FC Talk season 2 episode 3
Francesco Coppola Francesco Coppola

FC Talk season 2 episode 3

The third episode of this second season of FC Talk, my podcast about my Art Photography Vision, the generative AI issues about creative jobs and Vertigo part 2, a sub format in which I expose my feelings while I push through this effort into the art photography business.

A brief what's next section will close the episode.

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