Draft:Marcello Mencarini
Marcello Mencarini (Monterotondo, March 11, 1952) is an Italian photographer, journalist, and videomaker.
From 1988 to 1994, he worked for Radiocorriere TV (RAI’s weekly magazine), covering cultural and entertainment events and personalities. He specialized in photojournalism and portraiture, particularly of artists, classical musicians, and writers.
"As staff photographer for Radiocorriere TV, Mencarini has worked both as a photojournalist, covering news and politics, and as a freelance portrait photographer, specializing in artists, classical musicians, and writers. He is frequent contributor to L'Espresso"[1]
In 1984, he began collaborating with the Grazia Neri agency, Italy's first photographic agency, a partnership that lasted until its closure in 2009.
During those years, he produced a photographic series on major contemporary composers such as Luciano Berio, Giuseppe Sinopoli, John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Part of his analog photographic work is preserved at MuFoCo, the Museo di fotografia contemporanea (Museum of Contemporary Photography) in Cinisello Balsamo, as part of the Grazia Neri Agency's archive.
In the mid-1990s, he shifted focus to digital media, co-founding Rosebud in 1995, Italy’s first agency for digital image distribution. From 2002 to 2007, he directed Emage, the multimedia division of the Grazia Neri agency, experimenting with user-generated content and founding Makadam, a project for mobile phone photographers, predating Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube.
In 2005, he conceived, wrote, and co-directed with Barbara Seghezzi the documentary Nuovi Comizi d’Amore (New Love Meetings), a remake of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’Amore. The film, an exploration of Italian sexuality, was the first[2] feature-length documentary (93 minutes) shot with a mobile phone camera, the Nokia N90. It was screened in 2008 at MoMA MoMA in New York during the Documentary Fortnight festival, at the Zurich Film Festival in 2006, and at the IDFA di Amsterdam 2006 in Amsterdam in 2006. Nuovi Comizi d’Amore is considered a primary example of how a specific emerging technology, the mobile phone, is changing the way documentaries are made today.
In 2007, during the 64th Venice International Film Festival,he created Camera at Work, a performance featuring an unmanned Canon camera, remotely operated amidst the photographers at photo calls.[3].
In 2012, he founded the photojournalism agency "Rosebud2", specializing in portraits of cultural figures and events, where he serves as director..
From 2019 to 2022, he directed Todimmagina, a contemporary photography festival held in Todi, Italy.
He has authored several books on photography (In Italian), including La dolce vita dei paparazzi, Dialogo tra un fotografo e uno stampatore, and Dialogo tra un fotografo e un avvocato.
He lives and works in Arles, France
References
[edit]- ^ Erwitt, Jennifer, ed. (1990). A day in the life of Italy: photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, April 27, 1990 (1. publ ed.). San Francisco: Collins. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-00-215729-2.
- ^ Staff (2006-06-14). "Full-length film shot on phone". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
- ^ "Agorà". Agorà (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-03.
External Links
[edit]- Official website, marcellomencarini.net
- Bridgeman Images, Interview with Marcello Mencarini