ISSUE 36 JUN 2022
VINCENT PETERS Exclusive Interview
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Welcome on board Hello everyone I’d like to give a very warm and special mention to Luca Veronesi our new Contributing Editor for a beautiful job on this issue and his continuous commitment to Faddy Magazine and all of the creative community who made this issue great. Thank you Luca. I would also like to thank our writer Gaby Smith for her wonderful work interviewing our cover story. Editor and Chief Biagio De Giovanni
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uca Veronesi is a Professional Cinema&Fashion photographer, Photoshop Postproducer, Photo-web journalist based in Ferrara, Italy.
He works for fashion Brands across Milan, Rome, Bologna and oc-
copywriter. The London College of Fashion alumna has written widely about fashion and culture, with her work
published in numerous magazines such as; Harper’s Bazaar UK,
casionally abroad, Paris and London usually.
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Giorgio Figini Personal feature
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Psychedelic
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Niki Genchi
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Nikola Borissov
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Vincent Peters
Personal feature
Yongqi Liu
Personal feature
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Exclusive interview
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Vassilis Pitoulis Exclusive Interview
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Xia Geer
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Joyful walk in Paris
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Daily Bat
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Giuseppe De Faveri
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Petticoat
Sebastian Magnani
Personal feature
Personal feature
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Vincent Peters
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EXCLUSIVE I N T E RV I E W VINCENT PETERS I N T E RV I E W B Y G A B Y S M I T H
Vincent Peters is one of the most prominent names in
exhibition at Fotografiska Stockholm in 2019, followed
photography, with a career spanning 25 years. Super-
by exhibits in galleries across Milan and St. Petersburg,
models, stars and legends have all stood before him.
Venice, and Berlin.
Like snapshots from classic movies, he is famous for his high fashion imagery and alluring portraits. Faddy
Born in the Hanseatic city of Bremen, Germany,
Magazine had the pleasure of talking with him about
you’ve since resided in a number of the iconic
his career, muses and future.
fashion capitals. What encouraged you to move cross-country to pursue your artistic dreams?
Before becoming the photographer he is today, Vincent tried many things - traditional school, visual arts,
I grew up in Germany and left school quite early. I was
and working as a waiter. They kicked him out of all of
already pretty sure that I wanted to become a pho-
them. Everything in his journey led him towards pho-
tographer and I had a girlfriend that was applying for
tography. With his mother’s support, a German wom-
an exchange program to study in America. Suddenly
an who grew up in Japan, Vincent followed his artistic
I thought that’s what I should do - I should go to New
dreams everywhere — London, Paris, and New York.
York and work as an assistant! My mother gave me 1000 Deutsche marks back in the day. I arrived in New
Today, Vincent is an internationally renowned pho-
York with only a small suitcase and my camera on a
tographer worldwide famed for his alluring and inti-
sunny late afternoon. I was about 18.
mate portraits. Was your mother a key figure in encouraging you Following his heart, Vincent’s big break came in 1999.
to follow your dreams?
Relocating to New York to work as a photography assistant, Giovanni Testino’s agency signed him at the age
Yes, because she was teaching me to have no fear, that
of 20. Shortly thereafter, his career took off with luxury
things would work out somehow - I believe that’s the
brands Bottega Veneta, Hugo Boss, Emporio Armani,
best advice you can give. To have that confidence that
and Lancôme among his clients, and magazines includ-
you’re going to be OK.
ing GQ, Vogue, and Esquire publishing his work. In 1999, you began your career at Giovanni Testi-
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Shooting on film, Vincent favours black-and-white for
no’s agency as a fashion photographer. The agency
most of his work. His photographs have a sensual,
is renowned for its roster of fashion creatives and
timeless quality, reflecting the dramatic sensibility of
productions. Within a year, you had shot world-
film noir classics. Besides gracing the pages of major
wide campaigns for brands such as Miu Miu and
magazines, Vincent has exhibited his work throughout
Yves Saint Laurent. What was the most important
Germany and abroad, with a hugely successful solo
thing you learned at Giovanni Testino’s agency?
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Internal Cover Model Diana Dobrea @dianiuum
Vassilis Pitoulis
VASSILIS PITOULIS
Giorgio Figini was born in Milan in 1979, and after studying art he focused his interest on photography, starting to work as an assistant on the set of several commercials. He worked in the field of video for several years specializing in post-production and special effects and managing small productions as a director of photography. At the age of 30, he decided to accept a new challenge and begin a ten-year career as creative director of a large textile company. An experience far from the lights of advertising sets but still very integral in the formation of an aesthetic taste connecting him to the world of fashion. > During these years, Giorgio did not abandon photography. On the contrary, this was the most important period of his creative growth. These years of experimentation and exploration, free from commercial sector, the search for a more expressive and even pictorial language becomes Giorgio’s goal as he begins a flourishing artistic production that leads him to exhibit his work in several exhibitions and galleries. The lockdown was a total turning point for Giorgio who decided to interrupt his path as creative director and to return his focus exclusively on photography, in particular fashion photography. Light painting and long exposures give way to a cleaner aesthetic that look back to the years between 1990 and early 2000. Simple images but with a strong expressive power, the increasingly frequent use of on-camera flash as a tool to detail the portrayed subjects in a powerful and unadorned way. Departing from today’s aesthetics that offers soft atmospheres, natural lights and settings bucolic, Giorgio embraces the idea of a strong and sensual woman, a woman increasingly framed in urban scenarios, underground clubs, luxury hotels, downtown streets, all elements that tell a story about Milan suspended between past and future, between luxury and suburbs, a Milan that, with its contradictions and its energy, was and continues to be a source of inspiration for Giorgio and that which accompanies him in his continuous aesthetic research.
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Giuseppe De Faveri was born in 1976. His father, who works as a restorer, passed on to him the love and passion for art. And following this path, DE FAVERI indulges, as a self-taught, inspiration and industriousness at the service of creativity by experimenting with the most different expressive forms: from graffiti to street art up to the first approaches to painting in its most classic and commonly understood meaning. But those experiments leave precise and clearly visible traces as a sort of archaic language to draw upon in order to decline, later on, mature and more aware traits The drawing courses that at a certain point of the path he attends, make him become aware and possess his creative verve and his visual instinct, where every stroke is deeply imbued with meaning. The detail is the sublimation of this path: the immediate development of continuous research, the creation of a work as a generative act for which every detail is the whole work. The fusion between the innate method of a native of the mechanical province and the never subdued ardour of a man from the modern world made up of multiple languages. Abstraction and roots are in balance and in contrast. The visible and the hidden are parts of a mosaic still in the making. And in this mechanism, the artist finds his ἀρχή (arkè) personified in the faces. Women’s faces marked by colour as an act of exchange by the author with the work, parts in constant connection in the form of painting, art form, painting form, idea form. The author evolves the work while the face manifests itself and perhaps in this manifestation it is also the author who evolves and resolves himself as a new author and a new individual. The apparent simplicity, dissolved by the titles of the works that make the contents more accessible, the apparent simplicity of the works of DE FAVERI and his faces, is actually the expression of a universal language and a contemporary EXPRESSIONISM that invites you to enter and it provokes and feeds curiosity and doubt, cloaking glances in a never easy mystery The artistic manifestation of DE FAVERI is in progress and in progress and in mutation like the things of the world like the faces of his paintings. Men and women on the way. Here are some of the competitions and events in which the author participated with his works: ROME OCTOBER 2020 Palazzo Colonna Collective Exhibition “ART IS SHOWED” VENICE OCTOBER 2020 / JANUARY 2021 Molino STUCKY Personal exhibition “ANIME ACRILICHE” VOLTERRA APRIL 2022 GALLERY THE GREAT BEAUTY Collective exhibition FINALIST: Fondazione Modigliani 2021 Award (ranked in the top 30 with permanent exhibition on the foundation’s official website) FINALIST “LAGUNA ARTE PRIZE” Award ranked among the top 100 RAVENNA Exhibition May 2022 at RAVENNA ART GALLERY GENOVA Exhibition at Palazzo del Grillo in Genoa ARTITOODE event VENICE Permanent exhibition 2022 2023 at Molino STUCKY
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