Once again I am pleased to present this years ’24 Mobile Photographers Til Christmas’. It is a series that has been run throughout December for the last couple of years and has always been successfully received. In part, it is to celebrate the forthcoming festive season but also to celebrate another year in the timeline of Mobiography.
In the series I ask 24 hand picked mobile photographers to offer an insight into their work, to reflect on their year gone by or plans for the coming year ahead. Each featured photographer is someone who has inspired or supported me in one way or another during the course of the past year. One photographer will be showcased each day until Christmas Eve in a sort of online advent calendar so to speak.
Today’s featured photographer is Dilshad Corleone.
Do you have any exciting photographic project plans for the coming year ahead?
Every year it is different, every year brings something great and to balance the joy it also takes away something even greater… Men make its plans, he organises it and dreams about it. Life, however, is well renowned to play its tricks on men; sometimes these are pleasurably fortunate, some other times instead, these are sorrowfully unfortunate. Men then have a choice, to be subdued by what has happened or to stand up again and fight back, and live.
This year I had quite a few projects going on, one of these was to work on a book together with my good friend from Towel Publishing, who came up with the idea of creating one amazing iBook. I really wanted to divulge the beauty, the different meaning and messages of tattoos.
We ended up choosing the London Tattoo Convention as our playground, it truly is the perfect place to try and tell stories of tattoos and tattoo artists. The digital book developed with Towel Publishing (which is totally FREE and gorgeous, go and Downloaded it NOW!!) has allowed me to expand the expressive possibilities of integrating image with audio, video and digital interactions, together with the written word within the same medium.
I truly think this is one of those projects that I am truly most proud of! The book that ensued is a fascinating journey into the stories written on the skin, in which the reader stops being a passive observer, but also becomes a participant in the work of the photographer.
What should I expect from the future? Much of this… I would hope. I would love to go back to my roots of Street Photography, slow it down and walk a lot, observe and gaze at what the world wants to throw at me, smell the thousand different scents of a hidden street and listen to its voice and eventually try to capture its soul in one shot.
Fantastic Dilshad. Ink Mirrors is such a fantastic project. I absolutely love it! X
Hurray Dilshad! Ink Mirrors is a remarkable accomplishment on multiple levels, opening, eyes and minds. Well done!
Thanks for publishing this series, Andy.