Lucia Giacani

 

 

 

YES YES YES, another artist/photographer, who just makes me feel tingly and excited, I am the biggest fan of editorial work, it just relates to me so much, and I feel it is an amazing access to expression. I love the magical and surreal qualities of this genre of work.

 

Lucia is a woman, which totally surprised me! I generally got the vibe that this was the work of a male?! I really don't know why, I wonder whether it is because all the famous artists of great work especially the ones I have been researching like Da Vinci and Michael Angelo, I gave just had male creative genius's on the brain.

 

 She lives in Milan and has over ten years of experience. Born in Jesi, Italy in 1976 she has lived in Rome where she graduated from the Advanced Institute for the Artistic Industries and where later on she has undertaken an intense photographic activity that has won numerous prizes and acknowledgments.

Her work specifically and individually has been hard to get information on, I personally would of guessed this piece as being Mother Mary related as there has been other pieces based on this, such as Jean Paul Gualtier, as you can see these images do have similarities, pale skin, head drapery, ok there is significantly bold colour differences but the overall theme I think is the same

 

 

 The work above looks very realistic, also quite dream like, it has been photographed beautifully, the makeup and styling was by Aaron Smith Hendrickson, they seem to have went with a neutral nature theme, using the same coloured props. It work fabulously.
The image really make me feel so engaged, she looks so innocent and vulnerable, you could even say the same about Jean Pauls piece, although his does carry a more spooky skeletal essence.

The image has been taken whilst the whole team were present, probably tweaking along the way, also getting different poses to get the right shot.

 

 

 

 

Now taking a look at this piece, styled again by Aaron Smith Hendricks, this is totally different colour scheme, all black with specks of colour, your would expect his to be frightening and scary, yet you can still see the innocence and vulnerability of the image. You can tell this is a excellent model and design team, they have taken this religious inspiration detoured from the usual white and pure colours, and used the dark scary black, dark drapery and yet its still a capitulating an pure image.