Today we had Marco Franchina a longtime photographer as a guest introduced to us by Cyndi. Bio extracted from his full bio on his website ...see below “Marco Franchina was born in Pisa, Italy and came to the states at the age of 3. In 1982 at the age of 21, Marco moved to Milan, Italy to begin his career as a fashion photographer. He was fortunate to study under legendary fashion photographers of the day including Peter Gravelle who he work for as first assistant. In 1983 Marco branched out on his own, photographing for prestigious Italian magazines.. Franchina then moved to New York City to shoot for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. Where he was commissioned to photograph Oliver Stone, River Phoenix, Winona Ryder, Gretchen Mol, Edward James Olmos and many others.. In 1995 Franchina moved from NYC to Los Angeles to pursue his love for film working behind the camera on a number of music videos, commercials and his own personal fine art photographic projects.” His presentation to f8 today was two of his personal projects. The first below is "Curbside" in large part shot with his iPhone. This project felt like a portrait studio in his car The second project Marco showed was entitled "After Hours" shot with a Leica Q Check out his website
www. marcofranchina.com
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