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I Create Surreal Worlds Using Only My Iphone
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I Create Surreal Worlds Using Only My Iphone

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Playing with paradoxes and mixing-up real environments with surreal interferences is the most fun during my ordinary day life.

When I walk down the street, I shoot anything that catches my attention, creating an immense archive of photos. The creation of a new dreamscape happens at a later stage in the concept: thanks to my pool of images, the editing process is then almost immediate through the use of iPhone apps like PsTouch, iDesign, Superimpose, MatterApp e Mextures.

My influences are a chimerical blend of the metaphysical imagery in De Chirico with a love for Bauhaus geometry and the pop culture of Warhol and Lichtenstein all with the addition of some sci-fi retro.

I love that anyone can enjoy a ride in my amusement park. Just like going on a roller-coaster!

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Welcome to tomorrow

The most predictable failure

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Charlie Davoli

Charlie Davoli

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Charlie Davoli, alter ego of Riccardo Schirinzi, was born in Singapore in 1976, and he is currently based in Italy. In 2012 he begins taking pictures with his iPhone, recreating paradoxical visual situations, thus developing an experimental photographic language, which has its core in the creation of imaginative atmospheres and a surreal universe. Using Instagram as a preferred means of communication, with the I-Phone series (2012-2016), Phase in to the life (2015), The Photoshop series (2016) he creates an immense archive of images, which transport the spectators in a game of subtle interferences of universal geometries and deceptive perspectives. Charlie Davoli’s photographic work presents affinities with the Narrative Art photographic movement of the Seventies, in which the narration is seen compressed into a single photogram, which is then completed in the titles, giving the viewer the right input to suggest infinite experiences. In the same way Charlie Davoli, considering photography as a recreational medium to ironize on reality, brings out the narrative element, leading the observer towards new paths, away from the banal and obsessive routine of the real. Representative of a world suspended amongst dream and reality, Charlie Davoli is inspired by the Surrealist and Metaphysical language of the Avant-garde, to which is added an interest in the Bauhaus rationalist geometry, from which derives his rational and wholesome control of the photographic instrument and post-production process. Charlie Davoli collaborated with the Museo di Nazionale di Capodimonte and in 2018 in the context of the Reggio Emilia Photography Festival, the solo exhibition Retrospettive del Domani (2018) was held. He participated in the exhibitions: No Photo- Photography in Paratissima (2018), DigitalArt Factory (2018), Paratissima Talents (2019) and Artworks # 3 Errare Luca Abbadati | Charlie Davoli (2019). In 2018 he took part to both collective exhibitions: ImageNation Paris held at the Galerie Joseph Turenne, as well ImageNation Venice during the Venice Film Festival Days.

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Charlie Davoli

Charlie Davoli

Author, Community member

Charlie Davoli, alter ego of Riccardo Schirinzi, was born in Singapore in 1976, and he is currently based in Italy. In 2012 he begins taking pictures with his iPhone, recreating paradoxical visual situations, thus developing an experimental photographic language, which has its core in the creation of imaginative atmospheres and a surreal universe. Using Instagram as a preferred means of communication, with the I-Phone series (2012-2016), Phase in to the life (2015), The Photoshop series (2016) he creates an immense archive of images, which transport the spectators in a game of subtle interferences of universal geometries and deceptive perspectives. Charlie Davoli’s photographic work presents affinities with the Narrative Art photographic movement of the Seventies, in which the narration is seen compressed into a single photogram, which is then completed in the titles, giving the viewer the right input to suggest infinite experiences. In the same way Charlie Davoli, considering photography as a recreational medium to ironize on reality, brings out the narrative element, leading the observer towards new paths, away from the banal and obsessive routine of the real. Representative of a world suspended amongst dream and reality, Charlie Davoli is inspired by the Surrealist and Metaphysical language of the Avant-garde, to which is added an interest in the Bauhaus rationalist geometry, from which derives his rational and wholesome control of the photographic instrument and post-production process. Charlie Davoli collaborated with the Museo di Nazionale di Capodimonte and in 2018 in the context of the Reggio Emilia Photography Festival, the solo exhibition Retrospettive del Domani (2018) was held. He participated in the exhibitions: No Photo- Photography in Paratissima (2018), DigitalArt Factory (2018), Paratissima Talents (2019) and Artworks # 3 Errare Luca Abbadati | Charlie Davoli (2019). In 2018 he took part to both collective exhibitions: ImageNation Paris held at the Galerie Joseph Turenne, as well ImageNation Venice during the Venice Film Festival Days.

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GilbertoGarcia
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This panda is simply super! Probably the best "photo-imagery" panda i have ever seen in my 73 years of Rio de Janeiro-based lawyer panda.

KarthiT
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great and interesting to search meaning inside it .... I like "Welcome to tomorrow" much . Could have given vote options for individual pictures .

RickFitz
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I only got a few of the musical references. Care to annotate your titles? Lovely stuff.

JasmineGordon
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow! I could barely do this on photoshop let alone an iPhone! The way you mash two, three or four images together is really creative!

StineRuge
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no! Thanks for telling me about those apps, I just know it's going to be a new addition of mine! Lol. But great inspiration! Thanks

garthrm22
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is inspirational. Did you have take photographic or editing classes to get as good as you are now or is it a result of practice and experience?

garthrm22
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is really inspiring! I'm curious though, did you have to take photographic or editing classes to get as good as you are now or just practice and experience?

CharlieTan
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah rite.. apart from ur iPhone.. u would still need photoshop

AaronBratkovics
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like he used photoshop too LOL. iphone ...is a camera like any other camera. It takes pictures. AMAZING WORK!

DariaB
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice pictures. I like the second one in particular. As for the first one, my thoughts were pretty different before I read the caption. Having grown up in Umag (a small town on the Croatian sea side), where there is rich vegetation underwater, in the sea, I kind of thought that image was an exaggeration of that. ^_-

TinyDynamine
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they're far more Magritte-like than De Chirico. Some good images though!

GilbertoGarcia
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again: this panda charlie is the best!!! Pay all attention possible to his panda deeds. Just super-oanda!

Taleofourtime
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So so beautiful. You obviously put much time and effort into these, and it's most definitely been worth it

Gilberto Garcia
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the way: am I much too old panda to be part of this sensational comunity?

MoeGumris
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful imagination and prespective and bravo no Photoshop ^^

kapuschinsky
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People drop how much money on PS and here you are making conceptual masterpieces with a .99 app. Goes to show creativity has no boundaries:)

ManuelHa
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awesome work! Discovered @swopes yesterday. She does similar work!

MateaKenway
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Well done :D

GilbertoGarcia
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This panda is simply super! Probably the best "photo-imagery" panda i have ever seen in my 73 years of Rio de Janeiro-based lawyer panda.

KarthiT
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great and interesting to search meaning inside it .... I like "Welcome to tomorrow" much . Could have given vote options for individual pictures .

RickFitz
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I only got a few of the musical references. Care to annotate your titles? Lovely stuff.

JasmineGordon
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow! I could barely do this on photoshop let alone an iPhone! The way you mash two, three or four images together is really creative!

StineRuge
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no! Thanks for telling me about those apps, I just know it's going to be a new addition of mine! Lol. But great inspiration! Thanks

garthrm22
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is inspirational. Did you have take photographic or editing classes to get as good as you are now or is it a result of practice and experience?

garthrm22
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is really inspiring! I'm curious though, did you have to take photographic or editing classes to get as good as you are now or just practice and experience?

CharlieTan
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah rite.. apart from ur iPhone.. u would still need photoshop

AaronBratkovics
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like he used photoshop too LOL. iphone ...is a camera like any other camera. It takes pictures. AMAZING WORK!

DariaB
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice pictures. I like the second one in particular. As for the first one, my thoughts were pretty different before I read the caption. Having grown up in Umag (a small town on the Croatian sea side), where there is rich vegetation underwater, in the sea, I kind of thought that image was an exaggeration of that. ^_-

TinyDynamine
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they're far more Magritte-like than De Chirico. Some good images though!

GilbertoGarcia
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again: this panda charlie is the best!!! Pay all attention possible to his panda deeds. Just super-oanda!

Taleofourtime
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So so beautiful. You obviously put much time and effort into these, and it's most definitely been worth it

Gilberto Garcia
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the way: am I much too old panda to be part of this sensational comunity?

MoeGumris
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful imagination and prespective and bravo no Photoshop ^^

kapuschinsky
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People drop how much money on PS and here you are making conceptual masterpieces with a .99 app. Goes to show creativity has no boundaries:)

ManuelHa
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awesome work! Discovered @swopes yesterday. She does similar work!

MateaKenway
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Well done :D

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