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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Twilight of the Art Nude photography genre: Jock Sturges — Photographer of the Naturist World
Jock Sturges, American photographer and key figure in the Twilight of Artistic Nude Photography, built his career documenting naturist families across decades in Northern California and the French Atlantic coast. A master of the 8x10 large format camera, his neutral, documentary vision stands apart from his contemporaries — and made him a target of America's rising conservative extremism.
Announcing now the opening of my saatchiart profile
After years of studying, practicing and living, Francesco Coppola's experimental artistic nude photography is now available on Saatchi Art. 24 images across 5 collections — Light Painting, Shoot-Through, Zooming In, ICM and Body Details — printed on photographic paper, canvas, acrylic or metal. Open edition prints starting from €34.
Twilight of the artistic nude photography genre: David Hamilton and his Lost Paradise
David Hamilton, British photographer and filmmaker, built a career out of a single obsession: the reconstruction of a lost paradise. Through soft-focus, painterly imagery of young women in Mediterranean light, he argued — successfully — that photography belongs in the fine art gallery. A twilight figure whose vision still illuminates.
Transitional authors 2: Bill Brandt
This week we explore the life and work of iconic Anglo-German photographer Bill Brandt — how his artistic nude photography merged with the Surrealist movement through his radical exploration of shape, meaning, and emotion. A master who transformed the body into landscape.
What Photography Gives the World, What My Photography Seeks
Inauguration article of my blog’s new course. A bit of Photography History to place myself in the course of a long family tree of Fine Artistc Nude Photographers. History awareness, ideas telling, emotion narrating.
Website changes for you to see
Announcing a general refresh of my website, streamlined and visually and internal working better for my artistic business. It was long overdue, but let us rejoice for the moment that finally arrived!
Socks and Pizza issue 45 vol 2 is out!
Magno cum gaudio, nuncio vobis that the second international magazine to feature a selection of my artistic and experimental nude photos is now available! You can purchase it on MagCloud as a digital download or a printed copy.
Matilde’s Beauty to My Eyes, Part 2
Welcome to the second and final part of my experimental photoshoot with the beautiful model Matilde Fantini, taken at Showroom Orodi in Limbiate (MB).
As a reminder, the first part of this project has been selected for publication in the next issue of the New York magazine Socks and Pizza.