Hello all, and welcome to Roberto Agostinelli Photography:

I am using this blog primarily as an opportunity to display my photographic practise as I wait for my website to be completed. I have published posts outlining the range of photographic projects which I have worked with over the last few years and accompanying images from each body of work. I will update these from time to time adding new projects as they develop.

I am using this blog in more of a magazine style but have members of my blog can comment. So please feel free to comment on my images.

Anyway happy reading and I hope you enjoy my work.

Regards

Robb

2010. My heart is not the same as yours.

My Heart is not the same as yours.



My new book is made up of a series of images which were made sporadically during the past ten years both in and around the living spaces of my family and friends.

Removed from the context in which they were made they have become memorial triggers, static documents of the world that I have seen and interacted with.

In L’état d’ébauche, Noël Arnaued wrote "I am the space where I am" and whilst reviewing these images I have many times been taken back to the moments when they were made and warmed by the memories of things now passed but not forgotten.





The final sequence of images is presented in a 10 x 8 inch perfect bound book and is available form the Blurb book store at this link:



http://www.blurb.com/books/1322514




My Heart is not the same as yours is available form £15.95

Ongoing Projects / I Have Been Laying Here.... Perfectly Still....

I Have Been Laying Here.... Perfectly Still....


Recently I have been working on a series of landscape images which are concerned with the notions of spirituality and contemplation which can be found in the works of the painters and poets of the romantic movement in the 18th century.

I am interested in the contemplative links to our surroundings and have this can evoke emotional responses. Whilst making these images I am concentrating on locations which are left untouched, forgotten or serve no purpose. Areas such as the edges of train lines and motorways,and abandoned development plots where the natural world is left unmaintained and uncontrolled. These locations begin to contain some of the ideas of sublimity discussed by the romantics as perhaps the forgotten or uncared for areas represent the last vestige of untamed nature available to us.


I am currently developing this project as part of my PHD thesis.

2006 - 2009 - Each Days Light / The Last Autumn Leaves on the First Summer Breeze

Each Days Light.

Each days light.... brings a different view. The sun rises to a new world.

Everyday sights drift from the ordinary to the extraordinary and back again......... and the journey continues. I have walked this path many times and this is what I have seen.

The changing of things in the light of each day......

Between the end of 2006 and 2009 I have been working on 2 major projects. The first 'Each Days Light' is a series of images which continues to explore my fascinations with memory and contemplation. The images were crafted by shooting the roll of slide film during a daily journey everyday for 1 month. Over this period of time the exposures build up and the negative markers are lost, each image has elements that are veiled or hidden form us but also elements that have transparency and allow us to see through. I have then take sections of each roll of film and extracted them to once again make singular images. The resultant sequence of images contains an ephemeral presence which comments on natural and emotional concerns, the images have enough referent to give the viewer an anchor point to what is recorded in the frame but at the same time each image contains a dream like quality in which the viewer can become lost.



The final sequence of images is presented in a 6.5 x 6.5 inch perfect bound book and is available form the Blurb book store at this link:



http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/596266



Each Days Light is available form £12.95

The Last Autumn Leaves on the First Summer Breeze.





During this time I have also been working on aseries of images which explore ideas of transcience through travel, I am interested in the idea that weare constantly travelling between place, whether this is taken litterally i.e between day to day activities or more metaphorically i.e between birth and death, the very act of living means we are never standing still.



To reflect this I began making images whilst traveling, either by car or by train. The photographs make use of slightly elongated shutter speeds to capture the moments between places. The final images give us visual clues and refferents, trees, sky roads, buildings etc. Which may allow us to gain our bearings, but each image also contains non refferential elements which veil and confuse our location. As a result we are neither in one place or another, lost somwhere in the in between.



I am currently working on the final sequence of images for this piece whcih will again be presented in a book format. The book forward will be written by my good friend and Philosopher Barnaby Hutchins.

My intention is that this 'The Last Autumn Leaves on the First Summer Breeze' will be available to purchase on Blurb before the end of 2010.

2006 - Birdsong / The Smallest Fragments are the Saddest...

Birdsong.

During 2006 I had been working on a series of film pieces as part of my MA course. During this time I had started to look into combining moving image and sound pieces with my photographic works. My first experiments with combining sound and photographs were realised at a group exhibition in the Burslem School of Art (Stoke on Trent) where I exhibited an aluminium mounted, panoramic photograph combined with field recordings mad at the location where the image was made.

The ideas explored during this time had major impact on the way my work has progressed and the use of sound is still an important part of my photographic practice.

The piece 'Birdsong' was produced for my final MA exhibition and featured a 6 minute film piece based on a panoramic photograph and complex sound piece based on 5 field recordings played on 5 separate CD players to form a continuous loop of sound.

The Smallest Fragments are the Saddest...



During this time I was also working on a series of abstract images. These images started as inspiration for some small scale film pieces but quickly became a separate body of work. These pieces follow on form the ideas of memory I was exploring in earlier pieces but moved the images to be more abstracted. It was within this project that I started exploring the ideas of veiling and seeing through which have become important in my continuing practice.

Towards the end of the year I compiled around 15 images from this series in to a book called 'The Smallest Fragments are the Saddest...' The final book is 6x6 inches and hand bound.

2005 - Occurences / When I See a Leaf Fall I Always Say Good Bye...

Occurrences.

During 2005 I was working on a number of ideas exploring occurrences or happenings. I began to photograph a series of self imposed happenings , placing objects with memorial or emotional linkages within public spaces and photographing them. After they had been photographed the objects were left in place to deteriorate over time. The two images above feature small red butterflies which were direct photocopies taken form a broach found within my grandmothers childhood belongings.

Some images from this series featured in an exhibition of my work during 2006.

When I See a Leaf Fall I Always Say Goodbye.



Whilst making work for the Occurrences series I also began making black and white images which recorded natural occurrences such as light, tone, texture, pattern and shape. I began making small collections of these images and continued to make these images periodically throughout the summer and autumn of 2005 towards the end of the year I compiled a sequence of around 25 images into the book 'When I See a Leaf Fall I Always Say Goodbye...' The original book is handmade and softbound, however have begun to re-craft it with the intention of making it pubicly avaliable during the later half of 2010.

2004 - The Brightening of Things

The Brightening of Things.

Following on from the 'Not dark yet... but soon' Project I began the development of the brightening of things series. Inspired by working within familiar interior spaces I began to explore ideas of nostalgia and personal memory within the houses of family and friends.

I would work whilst the spaces were unoccupied in an attempt to capture the quiet and contemplative atmosphere of these spaces when they devoid of the life that they are built and modified to house.

The final exhibition piece was comprised of 10 5x5 inch framed photographs which were accompanied by 4 handmade, concertina bound, 3x3 inch books of images.