Michael Ackerman
Lorenzo Castore
Sing Your Song Boy

  • Italy
  • en
  • en
  • 25'
Michael Ackerman & Lorenzo Castore | Sing Your Song Boy
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Synopsis

Michael Ackerman and Lorenzo Castore each assert a strongly inspired and poetic photography, made of wanderings, encounters and contemplation. Following the example of Anders Petersen, their “low-fidelity” photographic practice, which embraces camera shake, blur and grain, is opposed to technically perfect photography, and strives for high fidelity of emotion and feeling. India is the crucible of the effervescent human senses they seek to capture, and they have each drawn their images from it. In the closest proximity to life and death, beauty emerges. Massimo Nicolaci, director and photographer, himself a pupil of Ackerman and Castore, and also of Anders Petersen, built his film in India in the same way: as close as possible to wandering, to sharing creation, and as close as possible to the truth.

What you will find in this film

A photographic journey • Low-definition photography • Photography with Toy-Cameras • The assumed search for a personal image • A story of friendship between two photographers

Keywords

Reportage & Society Analogue Photography Creative & Exhibition Photography The Artist at Work
India forces you to face yourself. It’s a fantasy world, a land of dreams and nightmares.
The territory where I photograph is very important. Where I find inspiration. It’s also the mental territory, where inside myself, in my bones, I feel I belong.

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Portraits of photographers, names everyone knows and others you’ll discover here. Films about street photography, war, fashion or portraiture, about printing and historical processes. About the trades of photography too. And then suggestions for going further, with Focuses, articles, interviews, bibliographies.

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The authors/artists

Michael Ackerman
Michael Ackerman
Photographer
Lorenzo Castore
Lorenzo Castore
Photographer
Massimo Nicolaci
Massimo Nicolaci
Director

Further exploration

Selected bibliography

• Michael Ackerman, End Time City, Delpire, 1999. Libraries

• Michael Ackerman, Half Life, Delpire, 2010. Libraries

• Michael Ackerman, Fiction, Delpire, 2001. Libraries

• Lorenzo Castore, Fièvre, Lamaindonne, 2024. Publisher · Libraries

• Lorenzo Castore, Ewa & Piotr, Les Editions Noir Sur Blanc, 2018. Libraries

• Lorenzo Castore, Paradiso, Actes Sud, 2005. Libraries

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Equipment used

Holga 120 SF (M.A.)  • Olympus Pen FV 35mm, obj. Zuiko (L.C.)