Otaku by Comakid
BA (Hons) Graphic Design Third Year
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Self Directed Brief 2
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Francesco Cassino (Comakid) contacted me and commissioned me this project when he saw my First World War Project. He wanted the same kind of evocative and nostalgic tone for his album, so I started researching on the protagonist, Tsutomu Miyazaki, also known as the Otaku Murderer, the Little Girl Killer, and Dracula. The journey that Comakid takes passes through the events of that short time between ‘88 and ‘89, from the point of view of the protagonist. It’s an evocative and dark trip in the mind of a man who still is a mystery for the society which con- tributed to create him. With my work I wished to underline the social dimensions of the Miyazaki case, in a subconscious way.




I asked my course-mate Chinami Narikawa to pose for me in a series of portraits layered with a series of black&white photographs I shot mean- while I was at the Japanese Temple in Brussels. Chinami has approxi- mately the same age that the victims of Miyazaki would have today.

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Contemplative

My father used to live in the Portofino Natural Park, near Genova, Italy. When I was younger we often had long walks and excursions in nature. Then I grew up, went to London, while my father moved to another house, in a more comfortable position, but less peaceful. The old house I used to live in during all my childhood holidays is gone. What remains is the mountain, and the sea.













































First World War Project
BA (Hons) Graphic Design Third Year
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Armistice Day Live Brief

























Model
John Christian Ferner Apalnes

Background Photography Sources
Austro-Hungarian troops in the Carpathians
From the Great War Primary Document Archive: Photos of the Great War
German reinforcements to Somme from Verdun
Untitled
French soldiers at Froidterre
Unidentified aerial image

Technique
These images were shot with a Leica D-Lux 4 in digital double exposure. There is no Photoshop editing involved.
A young man from our school, wearing the Norvegian Army shirt of his dad, acts as a silhouette for a selection of historical pictures from different battlefields throughout Europe.

Description
It is really hard to even comment such an horrible event as the Great War. Its proportions and effects are disarming, especially considering that it was meant to be “the war to end all wars”. These thousands of youths thrown in the massacre cross the border of time and nationality. The series of five pictures that i’ve submitted highlight a route common to many soldiers. A route made of dreams, enthusiastic cameratism, sudden panic and a silence that shouts at us, as an endless pattern of nothingness.




Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design Second Year
Photography Brief 'Summer Sketchbook'









Battersea Power Station To The People
Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design First Year
Unit 3 Pick'n Mix Photography Brief 'A Day In the Life'

featuring Jok3
Photos of the 'mission' link



The Battersea Power Station is an iconic building in the landscape of central London, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (famous for the red telephone box and the Bankside, another power station converted in 2000 in the Tate Modern). The first part (station A) was build in the 1930s, and then it was completed by station B in the 1950s: it was identical to the A Station from the outside and was constructed directly to its east as a mirror to it, which gave the power station its now familiar four-chimney layout. The power production slowly decreased trough the decades, to the final closure in 1983.
Since then, the Battersea Power Station has been open to the elements.

Various plans and projects for upgrading the building and surrounding area failed because of the lack of foresight of different owners over the years, leaving a void in the center of London for over thirty years.
Even if no one is using at all the area, guards are there 24/7, and there’s no legal possibility to visit one of the most impressive buildings in London, even if you born here and you’ve seen that building for all of your life. You can ask for a visit and wait more than a month, if you want.

“Trespassers will be prosecuted” means that possession is more important than the right of local communities to enjoy their space: money and property are more important than you and me, for these lords.

That’s why we made our way trough the fences and over the cctv: to let you see what is of this building now. Gorgeous ruins.




Choice of the media
Instead of focusing on the purely photographic side of our illegal visit to the Power Station I prefered to produce an informative leaflet to aware the people of the level of degradation of the area (and about its incredible beauty).
The flyer, for the ease of production and to be passed from hand to hand, serves the information role i wanted my piece to have.