From the public housing of the “Cesarella” to the extreme suburbs to Castel del Monte. Family landscapes for those who live coorate, but transformed into powerful artistic visions thanks to the eye of the photographer Michele Manca. His latest work has conquered Kaltblut Magazine, an independent magazine based in Berlin, among the most attentive to new trends in the field of art, fashion and contemporary photography.
In addition to the author of the shots, the creative team is almost entirely Coratino: make-up and hairstyling are signed by Emanuela Marcone, the production is curated by 50 thousand study, while the styling is from the Graffiti Gallery. The only exception is the leading actress, Miriam Moretti, face and body of a visual story that speaks of strength and transformation.
With this project, Michele Manca abandon the conventional aesthetic canons and shift attention to something deeper. The images speak of strength and transformation, without the need for further explanations. Black and white eliminates the superfluous: what remains are the eyes, the hands, the signs. The gun is not a weapon against others, but against a part of itself that no longer feels familiar.
Manca approached photography out of curiosity and quickly discovered that the portrait was its form of natural expression. After forming as self -taught, he moved to Milan, where he graduated from the Italian Institute of Photography, specializing in advertising and fashion photography. Over the years he has collaborated with magazines, brands and agencies, even during Milan Fashion Week.
He currently works with national and international actresses and brands, ranging between editorial and commercial projects. His photography is mainly in black and white. The images are apparently simple, sometimes imperfect: the focus is always on the intensity of the gaze. In his portraits, something often emerges that the subject has never seen before himself: a vulnerability, a force, an emotion that takes shape at the moment of the shot. Between passion and profession, there are no to investigate the human face in all its nuances, without filters or artifices. And this time it does so starting from home, bringing Corato on one of the most unconventional magazines in Europe.
