Love, online dating and The Relations with Federico Ciamei

We interviewed Federico Ciamei, the italian photographer which photographic project 80s SWM seeks LTR is among the protagonists of the second issue of Edicola, The Relations on Edicola.

#1 What is the first image that comes to mind when you hear the word "relationship"?

Lately I follow the work of a German photographer specialized in portraits that he has an extraordinary ability to interact with the people he photographs. It always seems that he is photographing old friends or relatives rather than strangers met to work. I especially remember an incredible portrait of Gerard Depardieu with a kitchen knife! 

80s SWM seeks LTR is a project in which Federico Ciamei imagine himself eighty, in a parallel reality in which strangers are portrayed as friends and family, creating a highly personal work. For Federico, the myth of the muse doesn't exist bacause the inspiration is always the result of a repeatable process separeted from the case and mood of living, despite the chaotic motion of ideas and uncontrollable factors will help him to produce entrancing results.

"Fortunately the photograph, in its relationship with reality, greatly facilitates this kind of random events".

#2 How would you define the relationship between creativity and web?

They go well together, but the defect that we all know about Internet is that the ability to move quickly makes it more difficult to do so in depth... but that is where the big fish lie, at least according to David Lynch. Though perhaps his opinion is linked to a pre-Internet creativity.

#3 Paper vs digital ...

I do not know, certainly the web still has a long way to go. Currently, as the card costs while the web is generally free, the perception is that printed things have greater value even if I believe a huge media success reflects a success in the "real" world.
I remember an interesting experiment that Alec Soth made a few years ago with Snapchat: you could buy for 100$ the opportunity to interact with the artist and get an unique photo that, according to Snapchat's logic, qould have disappeared forever... the project was sold out.