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.
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.
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.
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.
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 artistic nude photography genre: Sally Mann — The Eye That Stays Home
A profile of Sally Mann, one of America's most significant and controversial photographers. From her intimate family portraits to haunting Southern landscapes, from mortality studies to racial reckonings — a career of unflinching artistic honesty, told through biography, career overview, and personal considerations.
From the past a source for artistic nude photography future: William Mortensen: The Antichrist of Hollywood
William Mortensen, the great Pictorialist photographer of the 1930s, was deliberately erased from photography history by Ansel Adams and the Group f/64. A Hollywood veteran, darkroom alchemist and visual psychologist, his grotesque nudes and occult imagery are today recognized as a direct precursor to digitally manipulated photography.
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 artnude photography genre: Bill Henson — A Vision from the Shadows
Bill Henson, one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary photographers, built a career spanning five decades on darkly atmospheric images that blur the line between photography and painting. A master of chiaroscuro and dreamlike printing techniques, his work is as technically compelling as it is emotionally provocative.
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.
Twilight of the Artistic Nude Photography genre: Robert Mapplethorpe - Perfection on the Edge of Darkness
Robert Mapplethorpe: a Catholic upbringing, a sculptor's eye, and an uncompromising pursuit of formal beauty that pushed photography into territories few dared to follow. The opening chapter of the Twilight era of artistic nude photography — where beauty and transgression become inseparable twins.
FC Talk season 2, episode 2 now live
Episode 2 of Season 2 is live! This month: why I'm leaving Microsoft Windows and Adobe Creative Cloud for a Linux-based system with community-built tools — and Vertigo, a new format where I share my conflicted feelings about a life that seems to finally be turning around. Is it safe to feel optimistic?
Caught in a dark dream – Elio Luxardo
A portrait of Elio Luxardo, the Brazilian-born photographer who became one of Italy's finest masters of light and shadow during the Fascism era. A story of artistic brilliance and moral compromise — his nude studies, censored in his own time, speak to us with unexpected freshness today.
Second consultancy with my Art Coach — a report
Second consultancy with my Art Coach - a report
I am thrilled to report to you that the second consultancy I had with Stefania Monopoli, art coach went very well and she saw the growth of both my imagery and my artistic communication, giving me green light for my near future plans. 5 months of work correcting communication, reforming my website, working on Patreon, producing new images and studying the master photographers of my genre of Photography well spent. Ad majora
Augusto De Luca — The Body as Form
portrait of Neapolitan photographer Augusto De Luca, whose work transforms bodies, buildings and faces into geometric events in light and shadow. From his meteoric rise through Italy's cultural elite to his metaphysical nude series Spaces and Sculptures, this is a study in form, method and vision.
A light for all of us: Joyce Tenneson
Joyce Tenneson, born in 1945, grew up in a Catholic monastery, studied painting, and came to photography through frustration with how male photographers saw her. This is the story of a late-blooming artist whose luminous, spiritual imagery of the feminine body became quietly essential — and somehow never made her a household name.
FC Talk seasion 2 ep 1
In here you will find:
What is the situation about AI companies and its development;
The situation with Luxury and Fashion Photography market,
The difficulty in Art Photography,
My strategies and perspectives.
It will be a really interesting year to spend together!
Shine on!