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Michele Matracchi, photographer

Michele Matracchi was born in Florence in 1980. He took his first steps into the world of professional photography in 2005. In 2008, after graduating from the International Academy of Photography TheDarkroom, he taught his first darkroom course.
After some years as a free-lance, in 2012 he opened ‘Grigio Medio’ in Florence. Here deals with fashion and commercial photography, graphic design and visual promotion of venues and events.
Since the beginning of this experience, his work has been published in Albania, Austria, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Taipei, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States. Personally continues to handle the photograph of the scene, with a focus on dance which is still the star of many of his side projects.

Nicola Petilli, Teacher of Web Design

Nicola Petilli was born in Florence in 1967. In 1992 he entered the world of computer graphics and hypertexts with particular interest to problems related to structuration and communication of informations.

After the making of several “electronic books” he moved in 1994 from CD-ROM to Internet.
Since 1997 Nicola Petilli creates dynamic websites and during the years has gained remarkable experience in multilingual websites. Official webmaster of TheDarkroom since 2003.

Gerardo Gazia, photographer

Gerardo studies photography in the United States for one year. Then he moves to Milan for about 3 years, where he works as an assistant photographer in the fashion business.
After this experience he moves to Florence to be staff photographer at ‘Massimo Sestini’ photojournalistic agency, working for La Repubblica and dealing with the press world.
To date he’s still working as a free-lance photojournalist for press agencies in Italy. In 2005 he opened his own photography studio called ‘Nonamephoto Florence’ together with his business partner Andrea Ruggeri. Gerardo is still developing his personal work for private clients, events and corporates.

Antonio Fugazzotto, graphic designer

Antonio Fugazzotto was born in Monza in 1974.

Since 1992 he has taken his first steps working in various graphic agencies in Milan as a designer, graphic designer and photo editing for publishing.

In 2001 he studied Typographic and Graphic Design in London at the London College of Printing, where he developed a strong interest in screen printing.

From 2004 he moved to Empoli (FI) where he worked in various activities related to printing production, off-set printing and label manufacturer, as well as being employed as a graphic designer in the production of artistic and decorative incisions for the interior design factories.

Since 2009 he has been following his passion for screen printing, working as a silk screen apprentice at the VM serigraph laboratory in Florence.

Since 2011 he has founded, together with Giulia Castagnoli, "ink-p" project of applied arts and silk-screen laboratory. To date, the ink-p applied arts project has found several collaborations with local minifratures and applications to fabric and leather products that underline the high quality of the product known as Made in Italy.

Federico Tovoli, Photographer

Born in Livorno, Italy, but citizen of the world by vocation. Traveller since his early days, professional photographer all his life. Since 1990 he’s in the world of editorial photography.

His job consists in making stories through images. In few words "doing photo-journalism". He has trampled the soil of 46 countries of the world. He have made photoreportages in almost all European countries, as well as in India, Thailand, Laos and all South America.

His work was published on major italians magazines and also on French, German, Dutch, Belgian, Austrian Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Czech, U.S.A.'s, Colombian, Peruvian and Argentinian magazines.

Since 1992 he also teaches the art of photography, from basics to photoreportage. His photographs have appeared in collective and personal exhibitions in Milan, Turin, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, etc. He lives between Tuscany, South America and the rest of the world.

www.federicotovoli.com

Giuseppe Fasulo, Art Director and Digital Strategist

My professional orientation has as its objective the activity of Art Direction, implemented through direct collaborations with customers or the same communication agencies. Building on the experience gained over the years, I am able to manage the coordination of the works starting from the initial briefing to the first drafts, from layouts to be viewed by the client to the final printing or to be published online (websites, blogs).

The sector in which I preferentially place myself is the conception of corporate or product communication campaigns and the graphic and digital design of informative and informative material linked to them.

For many years I have also dedicated myself to training, carrying out courses ranging from teaching basic informatics to specific applications for the graphic sector (Xpress, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and for promotion and visibility on the web, from "intelligent" management "of social networks to web marketing, SEO, etc.

Gabriele Piazzesi, Videomaker

Gabriele Piazzesi was born in 1983. Graduated in History of the Arts at DAMS University of Florence, later got a degree at “Scuola di Cinema Indipendente di Firenze”.

He began his professional career in 2008, working as gaffer on a set of documentaries, and creating video labs with middle school and high school students.

Currently he is free-lance videomaker, camera operator or director of photography, depending on the assignment.

He collaborates with several video and cinema production companies in Florence, for documentary, industrial, corporate, film, television, commercial and theatrical project.

www.gabrielepiazzesi.it

Riccardo Cavallari, photographer

I was born with a vision disorder known as diplopia. This means that the visions created from both my eyes do not converge into one sigle image. In simple words I see everything double. The result is a distorted image: two images that overlap with an error of 7 degrees, thus creating a very confused reality.

Photography is, in the majority of cases, a monocular vision. Therefore I see the world as “normal” only through the lens of a camera. Some of my images tend to recreate the world as I see it, even enhancing this distortion.

I have been working for many years exploring multiple-exposure on a single frame, creating images that contain a large quantity of distortions, errors, shadows and spots allowing my medium to surprise me.

For the same reason, I am interested in archaic pre-Kodak photography, wet-plate collodion, bromoil prints, daguerrotypes and everything today called ancient photographic printing techniques.

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