Diva By Giovanni

Giovanni has been a passionate photographer since 1988. He has a hairdressing salon in  Sydney and has helped him to explore photography over the years. He has also participated in numerous joint photography exhibitions and competitions.
Some of his entries in the competitions have either won  or come runner up .His images are included in portfolios for models all over the world and posters for the hairdessing industry.



Giovanni’s most recent work   October 2005 Jan 2006   working from his salon in  Leichhardt is featured  in monochrome and high contrast images of human emotions and states inspired by   both professional and amateur models that he has encountered from his hairdressing salon and recommendations.  Giovanni’s photographs are to be the subject of a forthcoming workshop and tour which will enable him and his crew to take part in photography sessions in outback towns/cities.Giovanni works with equally talented makeupartist and stylist which tour on his workshops.

Giovanni specializes in creating comprehensive bodies of work that capture the essence of his subjects. Over the years his subjects have included:

• images of the people and environs of the high fashion images in the hairdressing industry
  
• people and environs of the local laptop dancers  and the Australian outback
  
• portraiture of Australian up coming models and their portfolio developing
  
• street photography
• general portraiture.

Beautiful Bodies & Beings" is the body of photographic works created by Giovanni during the  recent years. He has spent most of his time photographing in  Sydney NSW.  The images are not the traditional ones you would expect of Australian photographer. Rather they are high contrast to semi-abstract  images using the colors and shapes and angle to create a beautiful image that still represents the models in a sexy manner but could almost be viewed by anyone of almost any age, and above all else the play of light, to seek to recreate the feelings, emotional responses and spirituality evoked by the beauty of the women. This is a work which uses the emotive power of color and the subtleness of suggested shapes and poses to evoke from the viewer the feelings of his or her own experiences . The images hint at beautiful Bodies & Beings.
Some of these works are  manipulated images to increase color and contrasts only. The photographer doesn't use a computer program such as Photoshop to combine multiple images or to alter an image to add something that wasn’t there or to remove something that was. They are not created by multiple exposures. Each photograph is as it came out of the camera (with the only adjustments being for lightness/darkness and contrast).The photographs or models could also be available,Subject to permission from the models, for more info just contact Diva by Giovanni via email

Artist Statement

My purpose of these works is to demonstrate the power of photography as an  semi-abstract art form and to convey the emotive power of color and poses in a pictorial photographic style. I hope that this website  will help to develop a more distinctively Australian style of semi abstract  people photography

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