When photographers take on filmmaking, aesthetics are often regarded with principal importance, while a sequential narrative comes second. As we introduce the celebrated Italian photographer Marco Sanges, I’d like to draw your attention to Circumstances. The unique series of monochrome photographs were initially collated for a picture book of the same title but later morphed into an award-winning movie. 

Although he hails from Ostia, a romantic and historically significant district of Rome, the 52-year-old artist now resides in London. His early prominence as a photographer was buoyed by notable work in the fashion industry, with some of his imaginative shots featured in several magazines and national newspapers. Outside of freelance work, Sanges held longer-term roles working for Vogue Italia and Dolce & Gabbana. 

After two decades of success as a published photographer and enjoying several worldwide exhibitions, Sanges began to work on narrative approaches to his art. The artistic short film Pondering of a Lonely Wonderer arrived on July 26th, 2008, as Sanges’ first directional credit in partnership with Alberto Bona, with whom he also co-directed Pondering of a Lonely Wonderer the following year. 

Between these two projects, Sanges directed a six-minute film to present the photography found in his 2007 book Circumstances. Working again with Bona as his co-writer, Sanges compiled the photographs into an artistic film inspired by the silent movie era of the early 20th century. 

“Greatly attracted to the cinema and in particular the luminous black and white films of the silent era, I create photographs in sequence,” Sanges commented on the project per his website. “Every sequence tells a unique, multi-layered story.”

“In this analogue project, I wanted to capture the power of characters, bigger than life being themselves without any restriction or regulation by the government,” he continued. “Instead, they choose to be free, revealing the various states of consciousness of the character and exploring the dualities between content and absence, space and surface. Be in a scene, as a scene in a film unfolds into a story.”

Circumstances involved a cast of models depicting various characters, including Casanova and the artists Uomo Bombetta and Salvador Dalí, the latter portrayed by Bona. For his directional command and unique conceptual display, Sanges won the ‘Best Art Fim’ award at the Portobello Film and Video Festival in 2008 and the ‘Best Experimental Film’ award at Saint Petersburg International Film Festival in 2009. 

The below collection of photographs taken from Circumstances depicts some scenes and characters conjured by Sanges’ imagination. In the film, the evocative and detached reel is concluded appropriately with a quote by D. H. Lawrence: “I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Woodford Reserve announces The Spirit of Style, a lifestyle e-book created in collaboration with photographer Joshua Kissi that brings style and bourbon together as one.

The partnership launches Woodford Reserve’s new campaign to showcase substance and style, and represents the starting point of the brand’s move into the lifestyle space.

The e-book invites consumers to experience Woodford Reserve through three areas – cocktails, lifestyle, and the historic distillery, accompanied by exquisite photography from Kissi.

Woodford Reserve is presenting sponsor of the world’s largest fashion show – The Kentucky Derby – and recently partnered with GQ to host a Paris Fashion Week party at L’Avenue.

“Whether it’s fashion and lifestyle photography – or distilling the perfect bottle of Woodford Reserve – good things take time. And when they’ve reached their final form, it was always worth the wait,”   Woodford Reserve’s Master Distiller Elizabeth McCall said.

The Spirit of Style features looks behind the barrel and lens with personal interviews with both McCall and Kissi.

”I am excited to see the worlds of fashion and bourbon combine into one space,” McCall said. “These two are more alike than different, fashion goes beyond what you see and whiskey goes beyond what you taste.”

In addition to gorgeous photography, The Spirit of Style serves as a resource for bartenders seeking unique drinks to create with Woodford Reserve with a variety of cocktail recipes. The e-book allows a new perspective on traditional bourbon cocktails, and consumers are able to follow along step by step to craft new unique Woodford Reserve cocktail recipes at home with easy download.

Kissi is a Ghanaian-American photographer, filmmaker, and storyteller who blends rich textures, vibrant colors, and diverse audiences to tell stories and challenge the world around him, based in Los Angeles. Kissi grew up with a love for the arts once he picked up a camera at the young age of seventeen. Kissi is most known for building creative communities around diverse and stylish representation.

Kissi blends the rich and beautiful worlds of Woodford Reserve and fashion by visually defining what makes exquisite taste. Readers are able to learn about the art of whiskey while staying entertained by beautiful photography and cocktail recipes.

“Every part of us begins with a story and to be able to humanize the process of style through the craftsmanship of Woodford Reserve seemed like the perfect collaboration to bring to life. Every detail. Every garnish. Variation of color. When people look at these photographs I want them to feel connected to how both worlds of spirits and style inspire and influence the other,” said Kissi.

Woodford Reserve’s The Spirit of Style is available for download on WoodfordReserve.com.

About Woodford Reserve

Woodford Reserve, “Presenting Sponsor of the Kentucky Derby,” is crafted at the historic Woodford Reserve Distillery, tucked in the heart of thoroughbred country in Versailles, Kentucky. A National Historic Landmark, the Woodford Reserve Distillery represents craftsmanship with a balance of historic heritage and modern practices. Woodford Reserve is a product of the Brown-Forman Corporation, a premier producer and marketer of fine quality beverage alcohol brands including Jack Daniel’s, Finlandia, Korbel, Tequila Herradura, Old Forester, Sonoma-Cutrer and Chambord.

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Putting our paws up for National Dog Photography Day – CBS Pittsburgh

Wedding photographers like Baton Rouge-based Eric Garcia are noticing a shift in their industry, with clients planning smaller events and requesting a faster turnaround on photos. 

These changes are a result of broader cultural shifts thanks to both the pandemic and social media. 

Photographers are increasingly expected to turn in photos in a matter of days or even hours to be ready to post online as soon as the bride and groom say “I do.” The tight turnarounds mean many are now outsourcing aspects of photo editing to meet expedited deadlines. As a result, they’ve also had to raise their rates, which were already going up because of inflation.

Garcia, who started Geauxgarcia Photography eight years ago, is thinking about outsourcing some of his editing work, too, though he hasn’t made the jump yet. He says has had to raise his prices because of growing equipment costs, among other factors. 

“People are choosing to do these smaller ceremonies to make it more special and more intimate for the couple,” Garcia says. “But also to save a little bit of money.”   

According to the Associated Press, wedding photographers across the country are being asked to shoot more elopements and micro weddings—weddings with 50 or fewer guests—and to provide behind-the-scenes videos on top of the regular wedding photos.

Sarah and Peter Olson, a husband-and-wife team who run CityLux Studios in Boston, told AP they’re spending much more time creating social media content than they did in years past, and are hiring an assistant to “specifically grab content we can use for social media and behind-the-scenes type content.” 

They recently started to take videos vertically in short clips so their clients can use them for social media Reels on Instagram.   

The trend of couples working together has also made its way to Baton Rouge, Garcia says, because having two pairs of hands makes the job easier. Other trends include a renewed interest in film photography and an increased reliance on word of mouth from referrals as opposed to traditional advertising. Garcia says that most of the clients he has photographed weddings for have been people he has worked with before in some capacity. 

These trends come as a regular wedding cadence returns, along with higher costs, following the pandemic. According to wedding website The Knot, the national average cost of a wedding in 2022 was $30,000, up $2,000 from 2021. At the same time, the average cost of a wedding photographer in 2022 was $2,600, up just $100 from 2021. 

Read more about the wedding industry trends from the Associated Press, and more about Garcia from a 2019 225 magazine feature. 

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A photographer has revealed just how quickly a grizzly bear can attack in a heart-stopping video that has resurfaced online.

In the intense footage, wildlife photographer Aaron Teasdale sets up his camera to capture the release of a 22-year-old grizzly bear back into the wild in The Whitefish Range in Montana, U.S.

According to Teasdale’s Instagram post, the huge bear had been causing trouble and getting into chicken coops, so officers from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) decided to trap and release him in a more isolated area.

The photographer expected the grizzly to bolt towards a nearby creek when released. So, he set up his camera on a tripod accordingly.

However, the enormous creature had other ideas and wanted to get “revenge on the damn humans with the audacity to trap him.”

Instead, Teasdale’s camera captured a grizzly bear attack from an astonishing first-hand perspective.

In the clip, the grizzly bear launches from the trap with astonishing force and then furiously bounds toward the photographer’s camera at high speed.

The creature fearsomely charges towards the camera with its mouth wide open and ferociously takes down the camera tripod within a matter of seconds.

“Check out how he explodes from the trap as soon as the door is high enough. Then he almost takes his camera with him,” Teasdale writes in the caption.

The Sheer Speed of a Grizzly Bear

The footage reveals the sheer speed and power of the huge animals — and what it would be like to experience a grizzly bear attack first-hand.

Teasadale’s video was shot in September 2018. However, the footage has surfaced recently and been reported on by publications such as Advnture and The Manual in the last few weeks.

The Manual reports the photographer’s footage demonstrates just how fast and unpredictably grizzly bears can attack. Despite its enormous size and bulky frame, a grizzly is armed with astonishingly powerful forelegs and can easily outrun a human.

According to the National Wildlife Federation, the grizzly bear is the fastest of the eight bear species, reaching speeds of up to 35 mph.

Grizzlies have protruding, muscle-mass-topped shoulder blades that power their forelimbs to run and dig. They also have impressive claws that can grow to be more than four inches long, which helps them find their footing on soft land.

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My father, Keith Collie, who has died aged 74, was an acclaimed architectural photographer whose work is held in collections including the Victoria & Albert museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Bibliothèque National, Paris.

As well as architectural practices, he undertook commissions from patrons including the Rothschilds and the Saudi royal family, and from numerous publishing houses. Publications included The London Ritz: A Social and Architectural History, by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and David Watkin (1980), documenting the art deco and modernist features of the hotel before they were lost to renovations.

He also produced a series of city guides to recent architecture, published by Ellipsis (1993-2000), taking in Berlin, Prague, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, London and Moscow.

Born in London, to Ian Collie, a psychiatrist, and Dorothy (nee Breaks), a social and political activist, Keith attended King’s College school in Wimbledon, south-west London, then studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), graduating in 1971. A master’s in photography at the Royal College of Art followed.

There he won the Vogue photographic award, and on leaving the RCA was taken up by Condé Nast to work as a still life and interiors photographer for the magazine. He continued to work for Vogue until 1977, during this time also undertaking commissions for the Design Council and the V&A.

In 1979 he was employed by Philippe de Rothschild to document the family’s viniculture. Some of these photographs were included in the Venice Biennale of that year. Keith’s photographs of the Arabian horse for the Saudi royal family were published in The Origin of the Horse in Saudi Arabia (1985).

In the 1990s he became affiliated to the RIBA as a recognised architectural photographer, shooting for Architecture Today, RIBA Journal, DOMUS and Crafts. His clients also included Ron Arad Studio, British Council and Artemede Lighting.

Keith had a formidable presence, always bedecked with one hat or another. A great storyteller, with a quick and acerbic wit, he would recount the extraordinary adventures of his photographic journeys. He was a dedicated father, particularly to my youngest sister, Poppy, and would happily arrange his working day around her daily and weekly activities.

While a student in Manchester he had met our mother, Jane Bourne, a textile designer. She survives him, as do their children, Alice, Poppy and I, along with his sister, Penny, and brother, Donald.