Michael Ackerman • Interior
Tuscany 2012 • July 22 – 28
Who are you? What do you know to be true? What do you question? What are your obsessions? When I’m confronted with a person’s work, this is what intrigues me. Wether you work only with photography or combine it with text, video, music, this workshop will challenge you to go beyond the borders. To see photography as not being about photography, not about style, not confined to a category like documentary or reportage, but transcending all this. Photography as a revelation of what it means to be alive – for the photographer and the life depicted.
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Ackerman, born in Tel Aviv in 1967, at the age of seven he moved to New York with his family. He has been a professional photographer since 1990. He began working in the streets, in nightclubs and in the dock area of New York. In 1993 he made his first visit to India shooting in Calcutta, New Delhi and Benares. In 1994 he returned to India to continue his work in Benares. In 1996 he worked… in New York on Times Square and in 1997 he began a project called “Smoke” with a singer called Benjamin in Cabbagetown, Atlanta. In 1998 the photographs he took in India earned him the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in the young photographers category and in 1999 “End Time City” published by Nathan Delpire and Scalo received the Nadar prize as the best photographic book of the year. In the following years he worked in Poland, in Marseilles, in Naples and in Havana. In 2001 he published his second book “Fiction” with Delpire. From 1997 to the present day he has had many exhibitions throughout the world, among which have been those in New York, Berlin, Milan, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Krakow and Paris. The VU Gallery represents him.
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BIOGRAFIA
Michael Ackerman, nato a Tel Aviv nel 1967, all’età di 7 anni si trasferisce con la famiglia a New York. Dal 1990 si dedica professionalmente alla fotografia, iniziando a lavorare nelle strade, nei nightclub e nell’area portuale di N.Y.. Nel 1993 intraprende il suo primo viaggio in India, fotografando a Calcutta, Nuova Delhi e Benares; nel 1994 ritorna in India per continuare a lavorare a Benares. Nel 1996 lavora a New York su Times Square e nel 1997 inizia un progetto intitolato “Smoke” con un cantante di nome Benjamin, a Cabbagetown, Atlanta. Le immagini scattate in India gli varranno nel 1998 il premio Infinity Award dell’International Center of Photography per la categoria giovani fotografi e nel 1999 “End Time City”, pubblicato da Editions Nathan/Delpire e da Scalo, riceverà il premio Nadar come miglior libro fotografico dell’anno. Negli anni seguenti lavora in Polonia, a Marsiglia, a Napoli, a L’Avana. Nel 2001 pubblica con Delpire il suo secondo libro “Fiction”. Dal 1997 ad oggi numerose sono le mostre realizzate in tutto il mondo, tra cui le personali a New York, Berlino, Milano, Roma, Madrid, Barcellona, Cracovia, Parigi. E’ rappresentato dalla Agenzia VU’
I will share with the students not just my work but that of various people – photographers, filmakers, musicians, some known some obscure, who have influenced and inspired me.
