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BIG EYE KABUL edited by Endless Delight Publishing
afterwords by Joseph Grima
Big Eye Kabul by Antonio Ottomanelli from Endless Delight Publishing on Vimeo.
About MAPPING IDENTITY @Istanbul Design Biennial
Mapping Identity from istanbuldesignbiennial on Vimeo.
COLLATERAL LANDSCAPE
fragments of landscape on the post war recontruction borders
critical introduction by Eugenio Alberti Shatz :
"Not many Italian photographers move in the theaters of war. And when the photographer in question is not a reporter looking for a scoop but a photographer and architect who has long investigated the evolution of the urban fabric under the effects of destruction or crisis factors, this circumstance is worthy of note. Ottomanelli goes into the hot spots of the conflict to tell the rubble, the war, but also the yards, the emptiness, the difficulty of starting again, the dictatorship of a flattened and approved aesthetic, the empty mould of war that hangs as a phantom limb. His diptychs are the crossroads of stories, news, data (and in fact Ottomanelli displays images along with true stories). In his rarefied and reflective landscapes, thin human figures are the witnesses who question themselves about the meaning of things. We are far from elegy of destruction, and neighbors instead of a lucid exploration of the mechanisms by which human community absorb shocks. Glossy but never predictable or cold. Addressing social issues for Ottomanelli does not mean giving up the enchantment and metaphysics, which spring from his powerful work. The status of his images and constantly being redefined. In some cases becomes postcards from the future, a future post-something, post-anything, that we can not like, but we can not remove. Their strength lies in not only be a document for the archives of memory, or a mirror of contemporary transformations, but also sometimes be a prophecy of the future. When photograph succeeds, is a state of grace."
PANORAMIOanalogic installation at the Istanbul Design Biennial
On Domus web SUBENDO city #1 – Sao Paulo -07 | 2012
Sao Paulo contends with New York for the largest number of helicopters private transport:
235 helipontos
85 licensed
In Sao Paulo, the one who got the means, moves lifted up from the ground.
Were would you go if you had an helicopter?
city #1 Sao Paulo | SUBENDO | novos helipontos publicos em Sao Paulo | project by Antonio Ottomanelli, Paola villani and the Bela Vista Barrio inhabitants
S U B E N D O is a guerrilha design photography project realized during a workshop in collaboratio with: NovOlhar social welfare center - SeHab da cidade de Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo Calling - IRA-C
SUBENDO is an ongoing project and Sao Paulo is the first city we chose.
Next cities: Tripoli, New York, Baghdad
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Behind SUBENDO Rua Paim 235
Credits:
SUBENDO Project by Antonio Ottomanelli
and:
Paola Villani
Bela vista Barrio Inhabitants
in collaboration with:
NovOlhar social welfare center - Sao Paulo Calling - SeHab da cidade de Sao Paulo – IRA-C
Domus 958 photoessay - 05 | 2012
Great Baghdad Garden
Behind MAPPING IDENTITY
Mapping IdentityIs a project realized between November 2011 and February 2012, during a Workshop carried out with the contribution of the University of Baghdad - Fine Arts Faculty.
Credits:
MAPPING IDENTITY Project by Antonio Ottomanelli
with the students of the Fine Arts Faculty Baghdad:
Ali majed - Muslim Aqeel Hassan - Noor Abid Ali - Sarmad Sabar Abid - Noor aladdin Mohamed - Mohammed Bassim - Meden Kadhem - Ali Sabar Hardan
and
Paola Villani: technical consultancy in Italy
Lucio Ruvidotti: graphic and editing consultancy in Italy
Texts translation from Arabic language by: Saad Abdul Wahab
Sao Paulo Calling - Baghdad - 02 | 2012
Promoted by the Segretaria de Habitaçao and curated by Stefano Boeri, São Paulo Calling is a multiform initiative, lasting from January to June 2012, that will take us to discover how some of the poorest corners of the world coexist with the most incredible endeavours, to confront informal settlements, and to weave together some of the best fragments created by those who walk, live, transform and govern the city.
Baghdad zoo - 10 | 2011
the third Baghdad - 07 | 2011
August 2011. Long waiting times, motor-generators noise, and still waiting for the electricity. Baghdad: a space that does not express neither the power nor submission to power. Fragments from the third Estate landscape. What Is The Third Estate? - Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? - Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something