Dido Fontana

Dido Fontana
Dido Fontana
Nationality	Italian
Field	Photography

Dido Fontana (born 1971) is an Italian photographer.

He was born in Mezzolombardo, north of Italy and spent much of his childhood in his father's dark room.

His works have been exhibited in art galleries worldwide and he collaborates with numerous magazines and web-zines. In 2007 Untitled, by Carlo and Oscar Menichelli & Fontana, won the “best snapshot” prize at the Pitti Immagine in Florence.^[1]

His style has been defined as a bit raw, a bit scarred, and a bit anti-establishment .

He uses film cameras and Polaroid for his raw and analogue ^[2] shots.

Pure into the bone,^[3] sometimes composed, sometimes candid, Dido Fontana’s flash-heavy photographs seem on the surface to be a pastiche of the quasi-naturalistic style many photographers seem to be working in these days, but the humorous, gritty, and surreal way in which she portrays her subtly deviant subjects has more in common with John Waters’ celebration of trash than Dash Snow’s and Terry Richardson’s smarmy, self-congratulatory hipsterdom.^[4]

References

1. ^ Pitti Immagine press release, pittimmagine.com, http://www.pittimmagine.com/clists/cfiles/13/FlashEventiFilati60_ING.pdf 
2. ^ SCANDO BLOG, http://scandoblog.viceland.com/niki/default.asp?id=451 
3. ^ KANYL AGENCY, http://www.kanyl.org/index.php?/photographers/dido-fontana/ 
4. ^ Lost At E Minor, http://www.lostateminor.com/2010/02/02/dido-fontana/#more-30178 ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Dido Fontana's website
• [http://www.vogue.it/en/talents/new-talents/2011/08/unravel-19022010 Dido Fontana for Unravel 19022010 VOGUE]
• Yuhmm interview
• Rich Guys Hunter interview (Bulgarian)
• Flash Glam Trash
• Lamono Magazine
• Menichelli & Fontana

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Name	Fontana, Dido
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Date of birth	1971
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