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If Katrina looks silver to you in this shot, don't adjust your set. We're on our way back from a seminar hosted by the Annals of Improbable Research people - the ones who give out the Ig Nobel prizes every year - at the annual Boston symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at the Sheraton somewhere downtown.
It's a family-outing kind of evening: in lab coat and goggles, I assist her dad with an transfer-of-momentum Moments of Science demo (basketballs, tennis balls my liege), and Katrina, painted silver and bearing a large flashlight, is one of the evening's Human Spotlights.
It is dark and cold, and at first I think we're headed someplace warm and well-lit. When it turns out that we are not, I convince her to stand under a handy streetlight for a minute.
Salón de Estética, Cosmética, Belleza y Peluquería. Congreso Nacional de Estética. IFA Alicante
(c) Rafael Quereda 2017. Prohibida la reproducción sin la autorización expresa del autor.
Ayra - Queen of Heaven
Photos and Production: Cesare Marino
Bodypainting: Fiorella Scatena
Makeup FX: Michele Salgaro Vaccaro
Model: Paoletta P. Pasi
I Suri o Surma utilizzano i loro corpi come una tela e la terra come tavolozza, a prescindere dall'aspetto ludico, sono estremamente orgogliosi delle loro creatività, non si tratta di manifestazioni carnevalesche ma di espressioni d'arte necessarie, si dipingono l'un l'altro e non hanno uno scopo decorativo, ma di disponibilità, di prestigio sociale; sono molto attenti e consapevoli di fare qualcosa d'importante. I pigmenti puri e concentrati sono ricavati dall'ambiente in cui vivono e una volta spalmati sui corpi riflettono una luce intensa, ogni giorno si dipingono i corpi senza i tabù, senza moralismi (occidentali), omaggiano il corpo e ne esaltano la sensualità. Fin da piccoli imparano dalle loro madri la gestualità dei segni colorati in piena libertà accompagnati da una straordinaria freschezza, sono soprattutto gli adolescenti a praticare con frequenza questa forma artistica, la loro inventiva è basata sulle reazioni dei compagni , in particolare è derivata dal successo di richieste fotografiche di fotografi come me entusiasti di fotografarli. I Surma sono molto vicini alla natura e si adornano con grande spontaneità di piante, fiori, rami. Ho desiderato fortemente conoscere questa fantastica popolazione e sono stato ripagato alla grande dalle loro rappresentazioni artistiche.
The Surma or Suri use their bodies as a canvas and the Earth as a palette, apart from the fun aspect, are extremely proud of their creativity, it is not Carnival events but necessary art expressions, you paint one another and don't have a purpose, but of availability, of social prestige; I am very careful and aware of doing something important. Pure pigments and concentrates are obtained from the environment in which they live and once coated bodies reflect bright light, every day you paint the bodies without taboos, without moralizing (Western), in homage to the body and enhance the sensuality. From an early age they learn from their mothers gestures of colored signs freely accompanied by an extraordinary freshness, are primarily teens to practice this art form frequently, their inventiveness is based on the reactions of the companions, in particular is derived from the success of photo requests of photographers like me excited to photograph them. The Surma are very close to nature and adorn with great spontaneity of plants, flowers, branches. I wanted to know this fantastic firmly and I was paid off big time by their artistic performances.
In the Swiss Alps near the Italian border is a small valley town called Lostallo. For the 5th summer in a row Shankra festival made this place its home for a goa-psytrance festival.
Video from 2017 youtu.be/sGJAhJp605k
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Bodypainting: Fernando Demara
Location: Gallery Crea21espais, Barcelona
Blacklight Photography: Beo Beyond - www.beobeyond.com
Lighting: UV / Blacklight
Year: 2004
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