A few weeks back, we had the pleasure of spending a day at the studio with a selected group of students from the Fondazione Studio Marangoni. This visit marks the beginning of a collaboration with the Florence-based school, that partners with us for the promotion and circulation of my archive project. Fondazione Studio Marangoni is committed to fostering photographic culture with a dual emphasis on artistic education and professional growth, preparing the students for the contemporary art world.
After a brief introduction to our ongoing digitization project of film negatives, over the next few months students are invited to create a visual output in dialogue with my archive.
We first provided a technical overview, explaining the tools and expertise needed in order to embark on the digitization of a photo archive of large-format negatives, i.e. the different types of scans and the resolution required to achieve the best quality in prints, the careful process of negative-to-positive inversion undertaken by our colorist Andrea dalle Luche, and so on… Special emphasis was also placed on the relevance of such a project from an artistic point of view, explaining how this body of work presented in its entirety can become a record of how our society has changed in the last 30 years.
