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Brooklyn Buzz

Gaia Light, Alessandro Cosmelli

texts James Wellford, Marion Durand, Gavin Keeney

Damiani, Bologna 2012, 208 pagine, 120 ill.,16,8 x 23,8 cm, Paperback, English, Isbn  978 88 6208 241 9

euro 30,00

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In Brooklyn Buzz i fotografi italiani Alessandro Cosmelli e Gaia Light utilizzano come inquadratura il finestrino di un autobus, e le piacevoli, inattese scoperte che conseguono al fotografare su un veicolo in movimento, per presentare un vasto ritratto fotografico di Brooklyn e dei suoi abitanti. Cosmelli e Light hanno fotografato Brooklyn, loro patria di elezione dal 2007, catturando la vita del quartiere nella sua forma più sociale e vivace. “Le finestre fungono da filtro con l’esterno”, scrivono gli autori a proposito di questo progetto, “a volte come lenti di ingrandimento, amplificando, rivelando dettagli imprevedibili, catturando la vita così com’è in quel preciso momento, nelle strade, alla fermata dell’autobus, attraverso le vetrine di una rosticceria; altre volte funzionano più come barriere protettive che permettono di penetrare in profondità la vita delle persone.” Brooklyn Buzz, occhio europeo sull’America così come The Americans di Robert Frank, è un libro pieno di fascino esuberante e di calore.

21/03/23

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NYC Solution Center hosts non-English language classes

In accordance with the New York City Department of Small Business (SBS) Immigrant Business Initiative, a recently launched initiative presenting select courses taught by NYC Business Solutions in non-English languages to immigrant communities citywide, Jackson Rockingster of the Haitian-American Business Network (HABNET) hosted a Haitian-creole language class of  '10 Steps to Starting Your Own Business’ at the Flatbush YMCA in East Flatbush on Tuesday, August 26th. NYC Business Solutions Junior Account Manager Chantal Valencia Lawrence was in attendance where she introduced herself, spoke of the services provided by NYC Business Solutions and answered questions from attendees. There were 22 persons in attendance and Jackson did a great job teaching the class.

  To learn more about NYC Business Solutions (English and Foreign-language) courses please visit www.nyc.gov/nycbusiness. 

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Brooklyn Buzz - Sage Advice at Only Brooklyn, Ace Hotel Coming to Downtown, Ferry Bicentennial at BHS and a BIG turnout at New Member Orientation

Brooklyn Buzz- Only BK Real Estate, @acehotel to DwnTwnBK, Ferry 200Anniv @brooklynhistory, @brooklynchamber newbies http://conta.cc/1njqCJY 

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When photographers Alessandro Cosmelli and Gaia Light moved to Brooklyn from Italy in 2007, they quickly learned the best way to get to know their newly adopted city was to explore it by the Metro Transit bus.

For hours, they explored neighborhoods around Brooklyn—peering through the bus windows into a world that often goes unseen by visitors and even some longtime residents of New York, who have come to think of the borough as nothing more than a haven for hipsters. What they found were neighborhoods filled with diversity and vibrancy, streets that told the success of and struggle toward the American dream.

“What we saw was the soul of the city,” Cosmelli said.

I wrote about this very cool photo project called "Brooklyn Buzz" (via Yahoo News)

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GAIALIGHT - New York City

Photography

Gaialight, was born in Rome, Italy, to a mother from New York and a Sicilian father. She has been engaged exclusively in artistic activities since 2004, choosing the adopted name of Gaialight (Gaia Light for her Photography).

Her educational experience is rich and original: on the one hand, classical studies and a Degree in Law (La Sapienza University of Rome) with a challenging thesis on the conditions of prisons in Italy; on the other, an artistic aptitude that revealed itself precociously.

Her trips to India, throughout Europe and the United States, and to Israel oriented her towards the experimentation of different techniques. The result was the maturation of an expressive language marked by contamination and the overcoming of types and movements which combines post-pop and conceptual, media icons and current events.

Her current work, presented mainly through photography-based series, focuses on contemporary society, questioning its relationship with technology, media, beauty, body image, religion, youth culture, gender identity and sexuality. A conceptually and critically based approach to the image as cultural artifact, this work utilizes photography, video, installation, and performance.

She lives and works in New York.

“Brooklyn Buzz” (the body of work portrayed in the video) is also a very special photo book (by myself and co-author Alessandro Cosmelli) that was recently chosen by POYi as one of the Best 9 Photography Books of 2012

Poyi.org/70/42/finalist_01.php