Welcome to Summer Term!
Welcome to a new and my last term at DMUIC. I am looking forward to share with you my work and the project I will be developing in the next months for my assesment. This term I hope I will achieve a higher mark on my project and become a little more systematic to complete all the pieces before a deadline. To begin I would like to talk a little bit about a photographer that inspired my in a field of art and photography in recent time.
Roza Vulf is a Lithuanian photographer currently based in Rome, Italy. She is well-known for the art free from any restrictions to a single photographic style, as she is self-taught artist, who learnt to capture a real life everything and everywhere to find answers to her questions and interpret her surrondings.
Most of the Roza's pieces are focused around real life, city's streets and most often strangers, therefore an interview carried out by Lugi Collucia with Roza has been titled 'Roza Vulf, a candid eye on street photography'. In Roza Vulf work we can notice a very personal and intimate relation with urban environment as though the surrondings are speaking to her and to the viewer through the messages within the photographs. Therefore, there is a reason why her art is understandable without captions, as her private relationship can be easily misinterpret with words.
Roza's work has been singled out to be featured in many publications and digital platforms such as LensCulture, The Guardian, My Modern Met, National Geographic Your Shot and Fotopolis. Many of her photos have been exhibited all over the world and have been awarded in numerous international contests, for instance British Life Photography Awards or Tokyo Photo Awards. She is also a member of the collective OnEdgeStreet, a website exploring the cutting edge of street photography today.
source: Roza Vulf: Human Traces (2017)
Roza Vulf and her photographs show that the art is around us and that the photography should not cover only famous skinny models or tv personalisties. Roza inspires her fans to create something from nothing just simply by going outiside and look at where we are. This approach to live is stupendously important in street photography and in sociology or psychology as her work express the real beauty of what people have, with no touch-ups, expensive clothes and posing in a professional studio.
Vulf, R. (2017) 'Interview: Photographer Captures Candid Color Images to Authentically Define City Life' Interview with Roza Vulf. Interviewed by Jessica Stewart, My Modern Met, 27 July. Available at: https://mymodernmet.com/roza-vulf-interview/ (Accessed: 13/04/21).
Vulf, R. (2018) 'Roza Vulf, a candid eye on street photography' Interview with Roza Vulf. Interviewed by Lugi Collucia, Artevitae, 17 October. Available at: https://artevitae.it/roza-vulf-a-candid-eye-on-street-photography/ (Accessed: 13/04/21).
Vulf, R. (2021) About. Available at: http://www.rozavulf.com/about (Accessed:13/04/21).
Vulf, R. (2021) Roza Vulf. Available at: http://streetlondon.co.uk/roza_vulf/ (Accessed:13/04/21)
This is a really good first blog post of the new term, well done!
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