Thursday, 4 DECEMBER 2008
at 19h30
at PISTON PELICAN
20, RUE DE BAGNOLET
75020 PARIS
VERNISSAGE
Andrea Gandini, 7 Stenopeic Images Exhibition
Kathy Le Sant is well known in the fashion industry as a prominent makeup artist. She has worked with such photographers as David Bayley, William Klein, Paolo Roversi, Terry Richardson, Bettina Reims and Ellen von Unwerth among others.
She has also worked on the projects of various artists and photographers: Peter Beard and Bianca Li, Deborah Turbeville and Victoria Niarchos, Jan Saudek, Alberto Garcia Alix.
But her fruitful collaboration with Juergen Teller remains the peak of her career as a makeup artist.
Although an autodidact, photography has always been an important part of Kathy’s life, a part that grew to become her main professional activity.
In the last few years, Kathy has contributed to various magazines such as Dazed & Confused and GQ and made a few portraits for Libération, a French daily newspaper.
She is currently working on a project around transgenerational memory that will be the subject of a book and an exhibition.
The cinema is one of Kathy’s main sources of inspiration; she is particularly touched by the work of Andrei Tarkovski, Bela Tarr and Robert Bresson.
From 7 to 19 November 2008 at the Paris Italian Cultural Institute there will be a series of meeting with some italian photographers.
First meeting, 7 Nov 2008 at 18h:
Paolo Verzone, Guia Besana, Claudio Gobbi, Valerio Vincenzo, Marina Della Valle, Paolo Woods
Second meeting, 14 Nov 2008 at 18h:
Mimmo Jodice
Third meeting, 17 Nov 2008 from 11h to 13h and in the afternoon from 15h to 17h
Marco Delogu, photographer, director of "FotoGrafia", International Rome Photo Festival, editor Mario Peliti, editor Massimo Vitali , photographer Pio Meledandri futur director of "Museo per la Fotografia in Bari" Elio Grazioli, artistic director of "Fotografia europea Reggio Emilia" Walter Guadagnini for Unicredit collection project and Biennale of Photography in Milan Roberto Koch, Contrasto Agency CEO and "Forma" director in Milan Andrea Pacella, « Luccadigitalphotofest » Jean Luc Monterosso, General director of "Mois de la Photo" in Paris François Hébel , director of "Rencontres d’Arles"
Fourth meeting, 19 Nov 2008 at 18h:
Gabriele Basilico
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Hôtel de Galliffet 73, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris Tél. 01 44 39 49 39
For more informations (in french):
http://www.italieaparis.net/actualite/10523-photographie-italienne-institut-culturel.html
Tonight starts officially the Mois de la Photo-OFF in Paris, France ! The Mois de la Photo-OFF is a fringe festival organised in parallel to the official Mois de la Photo festival, held in November every two years.
All the exhibits are free and are listed in a printed catalogue according to their geographic position in the city.
If you're in Paris and would like to come to the vernissage :
La Cartonnerie 12 rue Deguerry, 75011 Paris Metro : Saint Maur ou Parmentier
Below you can find all the detail to visit the exhibitions ( all are free ) :
Graduated in political sciences in 2002 obtain also a degree in the Roma School of Photography then he begun to assist at the same time various photographers (Claudio Porcarelli, Guido Barbagelata, Matteo Bertolio) between Roma and Milano.
He started to work on his own and forth of his personal research on the digital art, in 2005 moved to Paris where he begun to work with the photographer / artist Michael James O’Brien.
He still live & works in Paris on personal still-life research and for magazines such as B-egg, Bmm, Next-Exit.
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