The beginning

Week number 3 (July 7th) - NYC

It all started with this self portrait that I had to take for a photography assignment...

I set up the lights, put a hat on and pushed the remote. I got a decent self-portrait that I printed and hanged over my bed.
Why? my teacher once said "I hang my work where I can see it before going to bed so it sticks in my subconscious in my sleep. If I still like the shot after few days then that's it, it goes into the project box"... cool.

After few days I still liked the shot and I actually had an idea: I want to take at least 100 portraits of other people with the same hat on and their eyes shadowed. Men and women, al nationalities, all color, all ages (almost). NYC is the perfect city for this.

If I take 3 portraits per week I can get 100 portraits in ~33 weeks, that is ~233 days. So more or less I am giving myself one year to finish this... or maybe I will just keep going...

Why am I doing this? I have 14 portraits so far and I don't have an answer yet, but it's a lot of fun. It's fun to take the photos and it's great to look at the results.

Actually: I will publish a portrait book.

Do you want to be bart of the project?

I have 3 rules only:
1) everybody has to wear the same hat (of course) provided by me and the same clothes style as follows. Men: white shirt and black suit jacket; Girls: strapless (jewelry as they like)
2) you will need to sign a standard model release form
3) you will have to give me one word to go with your photo. The word does not have to be related to the picture. It is just a word that for some reason is meaningful to you.
I can give you a 5x7 print for free if you like but I will not be able to give you the file. I can make bigger prints for a small fee to pay for the ink (it is super expensive and the printer sucks like a biatch)

These are not fashion portraits, it is about real people with a (real) hat on...

start your engines... few of my latest:

WORD: "GLOW"

Glow:
A light produced by a body heated to luminosity

WORD: "INSPIRED"

Inspired:

adj. Of such surpassing brilliance or excellence as to suggest divine inspiration: an inspired musician; an inspired performance.

WORD: "REDELICIOUS"

WORD: "QUANTUM"

Quantum:

A quantity or amount. Physics: The smallest amount of a physical quantity that can exist independently.

WORD: "NOMAD"

Nomad:

A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.

l'ultima (per oggi...)

WORD: "CUPCAKE"

Cupcake:

n. A small cake baked in a cup-shaped container.

Goodnight ma frends,
Fabio