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Tony Corocher follow Italian, born 1974

Lives in Venice, Italy

Projects/Portfolios

Beauty In Hell: Beauty over Drama | 2013-14 Kenya

Introduction

"BEAUTY IN HELL - Beauty over Drama" is an award winning, independent reportage and a personal photographic dream.

The project objective is to find and document the beauty present in some of the most difficult, poverty stricken and dangerous realities around the world. In this particular case two of the largest slums in Nairobi: Mathare and Kibera (plus some photos in the refugee camps and missions around Kenya).

BEAUTY IN HELL is a critical and personal artistic response to an increased awareness of living in a system that uses drama everywhere. I believe we are now unconsciously accustomed to consider an event interesting and noteworthy only if it contains some form of strong contrast, therefore if it is dramatic.

Without drama there is no news and everything becomes boring, dull and almost unworthy of our attention… we use drama to create sensationalism. But Drama is just one part of the story… if drama becomes the only thing mainstream media covers and the only thing we hold up, what can we expect to grow from it?

With Beauty In Hell I want to to express, through artistic sensibility, exactly the opposite and show that beauty within the human spirit is always present, in every situation, even in the most difficult and dangerous realities around the world.

WHERE CAN THIS BEAUTY BE SEEN AND WHAT DOES IT CONSIST OF?

Clearly any form of beauty in these places is not an easy thing to find. First of all we need to feel it inside ourselves, so that we will first be able to see it and then find a way to make people willing to show it. It can be seen in the eyes of the locals, in their daily activities, in the smiles with which they welcome you, but also in the rage and aggressiveness with which they approach you… in a few words in the spontaneity, simplicity and lack of malice with which they act.

Beauty is clearly visible in the sense of community and sharing that our society has nearly lost or perhaps has simply forgotten.

THE HISTORY BEHIND THE PROJECT

BEAUTY IN HELL was born as a dream, and I’ve spent the last 3 years developing it, injecting all of my passion and experience in to it, and dealing with the associated risks and dangers.

- In 2011 I started the project by researching and documenting everyday situations in Vietnam, Kenya and Nepal .

- In 2012-13 I documented beauty inside the frightening realities of the Mathare and Kibera slums (Nairobi, Kenya), of the refugee camps in North Kenya and other hard situations in the Middle East and Asia.

- Last year BEAUTY IN HELL received several international awards and was exhibited in venues around the world (click here for more info).

This recognition has helped me realize that, maybe, we are finally ready to see things from a different perspective … THAT OF BEAUTY! And not just through the lens of drama, which breeds fear, which in turn breeds drama... a vicious circle that needs to be exposed and stopped!

Wabi-Sabi: Acceptance of Transience

Introduction

Wabi-Sabi: Acceptance of Transience... the beauty of things that are imperfect, impermanent, or incomplete.

Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (??? sanb?in?), specifically impermanence (?? muj??), the other two being suffering (? ku?) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (? k??).

Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity (roughness or irregularity), simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.

2015 Vietnam

Galleries

GHISLA ART COLLECTION (Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art), Locarno, Switzerland

Biography

Tony Corocher (Venice, Italy - 1974)

Freelance documentary & fine art photographer based in Italy. I have spent the last 20 years switching between graphic design and photography while working in different locations around the world.
In the last 2 years my work received a number of international awards and was exhibited in various locations (see below for more details).
I am particularly interested in the development of personal projects that give a real, current and, I hope, true vision of what is happening around the world.
My long-term project "Beauty In Hell", on which I've been working for 3 years, focuses on Beauty over Drama, by finding and documenting the beauty (and not the drama) present in some of the most difficult realities around the world.

Short Bio

- Educated in the classics and trained in the sciences.
- Attended Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design for 1 year.
- Westminster University, Foundation Studies Diploma in Design and Fine Art.
- Kingston University, completed BA Hons degree in Graphic Design.
- Next 2-3 years worked for different design agencies around London.
- 2000, year off and went backpacking around the world.
- 2001, started my own Design Agency in Italy.
- Next 6-7 years worked on design projects for both print and web nationally and internationally.
- 2005 got involved in digital publishing - started one of my major projects: the development of the PageFlip Flash Technology. Moved between Italy, London and Seoul where I founded – with a Korean partner – a new Company (WildFlip® Digital Paper & Books) and began selling PageFlip components and Services.
- 2009 to 2012 worked in the Mobile/App environment analyzing and designing Apps for iPhone/iPad.
- 2010 till now full time freelance photographer/reporter & graphic designer.

I’ve collaborated with Companies/Individuals from all over the world. Usually, I work from my private Studio on the Italian hills near Venice, but I'm more than happy to start projects in other locations.

AWARDS & PRIZES

2015 Black & White Spider Awards (Beverly Hills, CA) – 2 Honorable Mentions – Professional Category: Photo Journalism.
2015 Px3 | Prix De La Photographie (Paris) – 3rd Prize Winner – Professional Category: Portraiture.
2015 Px3 | Prix De La Photographie (Paris) – 2 Honorable Mentions – Professional Category.
2014 - Px3 - Grand Prix De La Photographie (Paris) - 1st Prize Winner - Press-Professional Category
2014 - Px3 - Annual Curators Challenge (Paris) - 1st Prize Winner, 1 of 40 images selected by Bill Hunt, Curator (New York) & Daphne Angles, Photo Editor New York Times (Paris)
2014 - IPA, International Photography Awards (Los Angeles) - Honorable Mention: Photo Essay & Feature Story, Pro Category
2014 - IPA, International Photography Awards (Los Angeles) - Honorable Mention: Social Cause, Pro Category
2014 - IPA, International Photography Awards (Los Angeles) - Honorable Mention: Environmental, Pro Category
2014 - IPA, International Photography Awards (Los Angeles) - Honorable Mentions: General News Professional, Pro Category
2014 - HIPA (Hamdan International Photography Award) 2013-14 "Creating The future" (Dubai) - Shortlisted Finalist, Street Life Category
2014 - LensCulture Portrait Awards (UK) - 1 of 25 Award-Winning Finalists - Documentary Category
2014 - LensCulture - Contemporary Photography 2014 (UK) - Editor's Pick - Documentary Category
2013 - The Allard Prize Photo Competition for International Integrity (Canada) - November 2013 edition - 1st prize winner
2013 - International Street Photography Challenge 2013 (New York) - 2nd prize winner
2013 - TBM “Open Portfolio Contest - 2014” (Richmond - Texas) - Winner Individual Image Merit Award

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

2014 - FONDAZIONE GHISLA ART COLLECTION (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Locarno (Switzerland) - Permanent Exhibition - 2 photographs 100x70cm (unique copies) became part of the Ghisla Art Collection.
2014 - FONDAZIONE GHISLA ART COLLECTION (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Locarno (Switzerland) - Solo Exhibition "Beauty In Hell 2013-2014" - 22 October to 31 December 2014.
2014 - Arles Photo Festival (Le Magasin de Jouets Galerie) - Group Exhibition as PX3 Grand Prix De La Photographie Paris First Prize Winner (Press Professional Category)
2014 - Espace Beaurepaire, Paris - Group Exhibition as 1 of 40 winners of the PX3 Annual Curators Challenge - Paris, 2014
2014 - Personal Exhibition in Locarno (Switzerland) at SWICA main offices (8 August to 18 October 2014) - first 10 days during the PARDO International Film Festival
2013 - Personal Exhibition in conjunction with La Biennale di Venezia 2013 - Bangladesh Pavillion
2013 - Group Exhibition in Dubai, May 2014 - Invitation from International Street Photography Challenge
2013 - Presentation/Exhibition at Palazzo Cusani - "Beauty In Hell" Project – Milan

ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

2014 - Article on Kunst Magazin about the Beauty In Hell Project and Exhibition
2014 - Published in the PX3 Annual Photo Book 2014 - Grand Prix De La Photographie Paris
2014 - Interview and article on Oggi Treviso
2013 - Published in the HIPA (Hamdan International Photography Award) Annual Photo Book 2013/2014 - “Creating the Future” – Dubai, 2014
2013 - Published on Witness Journal (N.58) - Official Selection
2013 - Social Documentary - Featured Exhibit

Website

tonycorocher.com

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GHISLA ART COLLECTION (Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art), Locarno, Switzerland

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