When in 1976 Helmut Newton published his first portrait White Women, there were in many to launch anathemas against the artist and who he would then awarded the prestigious Kodak Award. Because Newton had chosen to subject the female nude and, while putting at the service of the most prestigious fashion houses in the world his art, it was the naked body to dominate the lens, the image, the viewer. In that portrait it appeared – among others – a model on all fours on a bed, dressed in a leather saddle by Hermès, the look through the lens. In… read more →
It is love 3.0, which does not deal with Internet, social networks and dating in unknown sites. This is in the ability of those who are now more than adult, who live with a long way behind and feel fatigue: a job, a mother to look after, a day marked by the rhythms imposed by the city and by the choices they made in past years. Yet. And it is that one of a woman like many others who, in the midst of so much “doing”, realises that desire and love were only sleeping and they did not understand the… read more →
Be husband and wife in Pakistan. I confess I did not understand well yet what the deeper meaning and what in fact it is in everyday life. After more than two years of living in the country, I enjoyed both in big cities than in rural areas have seen numerous engagements, weddings, family relationships and conflicts. I could say anything different from what I see in my home or in Europe, but no: not taking anything away from our relational crisis (we are talking only of women and men because gay and lesbian couples certainly do not see in and… read more →
