Category: The File Style re-posting

  • Repost: “Woven in true colours” – The File Style

    written by Sandra Porto

    I am delighted to meet the work of the photographer Janssem Cardoso, full of diversity, identity and humanity.
    Read more about his ‘Other Colours’ project and his experience during the lockdown, through Sandra Porto’s article for The File Style.

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    By Sandra Porto

    Unmasked humanity creates unique tapestry in Janssem Cardoso’s photography.

    Love, compassion and tolerance are often quoted as good qualities to possess and to live a good life; but the Brazilian photographer and videographer has gone beyond personal traits to incorporate them into the very fabric of his work.

    Among his short movies and exquisite photography, a common thread of humanity, vulnerability and warmth links his subjects with incredible results, which are always touching and simultaneously provoking.

    Mastering imagery in such a powerful way, you’d be forgiven to think he’d done nothing else apart from photography. But his journey didn’t necessarily start behind the lens: “I was studying Graphic Design at university and photography was one of the subjects – I just fell in love with it.” From there, he got a job at an animation studio where he was placed in a fast lane leading to the…

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  • Open-hearted experience in Kenya with Graziana Zanin

    Open-hearted experience in Kenya with Graziana Zanin

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    Experience, to some, is a journey registered in particular ways, engraved on one’s heart. Passion guided discoveries, accumulating memories of unique moments. Lockdown was for Graziana Zanin this, an unforgettable experience.

    Italian blood runs in her veins and also in the romantic way she describes her life experiences.

    Lockdown is softening in the Netherlands. Less distant than the video-calls, Graziana and I met in Arnhem, Netherlands, in the assurance that we both were COVID-19-free.

    With her background in fashion design, a bright world opens ahead because as she says “with everything that she does, she puts passion above all, regarding work and people”.

    Openly, she speaks about her relationships and the passengers in her life-journey. With an open heart, she describes her likes and dislikes regarding her ideal holidays, luxury hotels in France or Italy. “Never going to the bushes”, her quote to a holiday to Africa. How on earth…

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