Weekly Score 15.10.10 [Gregoire Bernardi]
16 Oct
Cette semaine Gregoire Bernardi écrit cet article passionnant sur ce que lui donne de l’inspiration…
So this week’s score comes from a Frenchman. A Frenchman whom I met outside of a pub whilst talking to a tramp with a dog. A dog previously named Hitler.
What a night.
Allow me to introduce Mr Grégoire Bernardi.
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Hello everyone!
Well, I have to be honest with you, I really don’t feel comfortable with writing, and mostly when it’s not in my native language, so I’m sorry in advance if this sounds a bit weird…
My name is Grégoire Bernardi and I’m from Marseille, in the South of France. I’ve been a photographer for 7 years now. I first started working within a press agency and have been a freelancer since I arrived in London 2 and a half years ago. I mainly work for different magazines in portraiture and reportages. I really love it, but I need to work on different personal projects to be totally delighted.
I am inspired by many different things in my daily life. Sometimes it could be someone on the tube or a story I read in a newspaper, or maybe a song or a movie scene. It’s quite hard to identify where the inspiration comes from sometimes.
MOVIE:
Gadjo Dilo by Tony Gladiff
Stephane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania in search of the female Gypsy singer Nora Luca, to whom his father had frequently listened before his death. Stephane finds much more…
But the thing I know is that music has always inspired me a lot and is often present in my work in different ways. To me, music can totally change and renew somebody’s point of view on things.
VIDEO CLIP:
The Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar [directed by Michel Gondry]
Now. Find any portrait.
First watch it with a very gloomy song
and then watch it with a joyful electro track.
Normally, you should see it with very different feelings. Obviously, it can seem stupid and easy, but I think that music can influence more a visual than a visual can influence music. Actually, this complementary between music and pictures is exactly what I’m working on at the moment through a series of portraits of people listening to their favorite song…
LIVE ART:
Miss Annabelle Sings
London’s dark chanteuse and performer of video and song as live art.
On Stage:
The Plague, an inspirational video shot and edited by herself:
Be sure to also check out her blog.
She also is the associate director of Eat Your Heart Out
PAINTING:
Marseille’s based artist Wooz Moon.
Take a look at her amazing sketchbooks.
And her website.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
This is very hard to choose just one person, but I really love the American photographer Diane Arbus, and she has been inspired me a lot.
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How about that Monkey’s? Merci beaucoup Grégoire!
Check out some of Grégoire’s epic portraiture and reportage. His work speaks for itself especially when he’s shot the likes of Foals, John Malkovitch and Jay–Z.
A-mezzin stuff.
Grégoire has also started to shoot videos with photographer Elisabeth Blanchet. The duo call themselves Regis Road Productions.
Until the next time you devilish monkeys – Au revoir.
Dani & The YCC x
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