Monday, 3 May 2010
Giulio di Sturco: Dreaming Fashion
I've been meaning to feature Giulio di Sturco's photography for a while now, and recently revisited his website, to which he added a number of galleries.
One of those consists of his work during Indian Fashion Week in New Delhi, and is titled Dreaming Fashion.
You may wonder what I chose to feature this gallery on what is essentially a travel photography blog.
My rationale is multi-faceted: this gallery of edgy fashion and striking models underscores the enormous strides made by India in becoming an Asian economic powerhouse with a new growing middle class and modernizing cities, but also emphasizes the growing wealth disparity between its haves and have-nots.
Another reason is Giulio's photographic style. His blurry photographs impart both a dreamy look and one that suggests motion and energy.
The third reason is the pretty models...always a magnet.
Giulio's work also includes more sobering work. His galleries of photographs of the Ganges' pollution, the misery of Bihar residents after a flood and violence in Kashmir provide a reality check, and a reminder that not all is rosy in India.
Giulio di Sturco is an award-winning Italian photographer working between Milan and New Delhi. He studied photography at the European Institute of Design and Visual Arts in Rome, and was published in D (La Repubblica delle Donne), Internazionale, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Anna, Amica, Geo, L'Espresso and others.
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