Ignite is a space where Prospekt photographers share thoughts, notes, unfinished or discarded projects and discussions on various themes. It is a glimpse into the photographers’ processes beyond the final projects.
Today marks ten years since the devastating earthquake and Tsunami in northern Japan that caused one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. After a
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, November 7th, 2020. The day when the 2020 US presidential election was called. In almost 20 years of being a photographer, I’ve
A while back, when Cyril and I were working on his new web site, he wanted a video to set a tone when landing on
Sometimes I feel like many photographers, including me, have perhaps stopped looking for what, for better or for worse, is extraordinary and unrepeatable in our
My psychotherapist recently died. When I realized that I wouldn’t be able to talk to him ever again, I was attending a self-portrait workshop run
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OnI7tiAQGQ8 In February 2020, as every year, I drove to Schignano, a village located in the mountains on the border between Italy and Switzerland, to
Back in March I kept reading about domestic violence being on the rise, internationally, as a consequence of the forced quarantine. After several attempts to
It happens sometimes that you take a photograph because something has caught your attention and then, when you see the picture you’ve taken, you discover
Woman on Street, St. Petersburg, 2008. While constructing a book’s narrative, the reasons to include or reject certain pictures are more often intuitive than logical.
“Ten, nine, eight”, the electrified crowd chants in chorus. “Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, go!”. Within seconds, a myriad of colorful cars roars
Dear Francesco, I think that the main difficulty when trying to picture mental illness is that in essence, it is invisible. Some might argue that
World Mental Health Day is observed on the 10th of October every year. Today. I came across the website of Scott, to see again his
As the pandemic forced me to stop travel to Japan where I usually work from, I started to look closer to home. This led to
2020 has been the strangest year since I moved to Barcelona back in 2012. In the previous years I was mainly working abroad or for
The process of discovery, the process of unveiling someone’s fortunes or misfortunes of tarots’ reading is not far from my idea of photography but there
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