Davide Caniatti

Anselm Kiefer was born in Germany at the end of the Second World War. Growing up among the ruins he developed his entire poetics from them, combining painting and sculpture in a decidedly unique way. Venice, at the same time, is the city of ruins par excellence: all it has to offer is its great past. It is therefore singular that for the 1600 years of the city Palazzo Ducale chose the German artist to talk about Venice.

In early June, I was hired for the first wedding of my life. It is not the first time that I have been paid - a little - to be a photographer, but it was the very first time someone entrusted me the most important day of their life. I was very anxious and nervous at the same time. The set-up was ready: my trusty Fuji GFX 50R with 32-64mm and the adapted 80mm Planar T *.

When I speak of Damien Hirst to someone who does not know him, the first approximation I can formulate is “that one with the shark in formalin”. Reducing the career of one of the greatest living British artists to that is probably ungenerous, but the approximation often works. The shark immobilized inside the chemical bath has become an iconic image of contemporary art. I have always found the image in question to be extremely powerful.

News of a new film should be good news in itself. I use the conditional as today’s announcement by <a href=“https://emulsive.org/articles/news/25-cheaper-than-both-portra-and-ektar-the-return-of-kodak-gold-200-film-in-120-format?fbclid=IwAR2AtyNGOhTvejmL0DvaPYHy_QzKsEYqcYQ7CK36_YDGY6VvsSnCofyssN4"http://google.com")" target="_blank” rel=“noopener noreferrer”>Kodak to market the Gold 200 in 120 formatleaves me at most tepid. We have come from difficult years for analog photography, with many beloved films being discontinued. Let’s think, for example, of the Fuji 400H which, with its disappearance, has thrown into a panic wedding practitioners all over the world.

<a href=“https://davidecaniatti.com/post/contax-tvs-digital-shooting-with-a-2002-digital-camera/"http://google.com")" target="_blank” rel=“noopener noreferrer”>The first time I wrote about Contax TVS Digitalwas over a year ago. The discovery of this little digital camera was surprising to me. Not only does the technology of 20 years ago seem absurdly old, but above all useless. When I picked it up, I did it with an almost archaeological spirit, as if to reconstruct the functioning of a now-forgotten object. In fact, over time I realized that it is something much more: it works, and takes beautiful photos!