生於1930年，童年時光在羅馬度過，Gianni二戰後跟隨家人到威尼斯，並成為一名業餘攝影師。1952年，攝影師布列松在其攝影集裡《Images à la Sauvette》提出The Decisive Moment理論，年輕的Gianni震撼得決定踏上攝影之路，最終成為雜誌社的攝影記者，至今拍攝了逾六十年。
作為新聞攝影師，Gianni的作品寫實得來又非常唯美，1969年出版的攝影集《Morire di Classe》，拍攝意大利精神病患者的狀況，寫實而又帶有批判性，書籍出版後很快在社會引起討論，最終更影響意大利醫療體制的改革。當初的新聞報道照片，後來都成為20世紀的經典作品。不過他並不喜歡別人將他捧上神枱，謙虛地說只是攝影師一名，純粹有一雙好奇的眼睛，記錄圍繞身邊的事物。
Happy Together, released in 1997, is a romance film directed by Wong Kar-wai, which depicts a turbulent love story of gay lovers. The film aesthetics is undoubtedly mesmerizing. Meanwhile, the atmospheric movie stills capture by Wing Shya, which also becomes classic.
Wing Shya was initially a graphic designer. He liked to make collages at school and even tried to pick up trash on the street to create. When photographing film stills for Happy Together, he designs the collage with the stills and script text, which is more artistic than the film stills.
Wing Shya recently exhibited his diversified creations in the gallery. The exhibition is named “Happy Together.” In addition to the collages of movie stills, there are also commercial photography works taken throughout the years. He said, “Happy Together” is a love story. The photographs I have taken over the years are also related to love. The similar scenes of two people Happy Together.”
He photographed Daniel Wu and Shu Qi for fashion magazine “iD” in 2002. The protagonists were hugging each other on a motorcycle and staged a loving moment, and such a fancy-free style may be traced back to the movie “Happy Together.”
Jeff Wall的這種創作思維，某程度上是來自繪畫，他自小已沉迷繪畫，大學時修讀藝術史，對攝影及電影亦有深刻認識。作為一位藝術史學者，他的攝影創作深受觀念藝術及繪畫所影響，1978年的成名作《The Destroyed Room》，靈感便來自十九世紀法國畫家Delacroix的《Death of Sardanapalus》。兩幅作品都以睡床為中心，Delacroix的作品是刀光劍影的直接暴力，而Jeff Wall則透過凌亂的房間畫面，呈現一種不可言喻的暴力。是家庭的暴力？還是社會的混亂？一切留待觀眾去解讀。但無可否認的是，他將觀念藝術融入攝影，成功開創獨特風格的攝影手法。
在Jeff Wall慢工出細貨的創作中，還能找到靈感來自印象派之父馬奈、西班牙浪漫主義畫派畫家哥雅以及Edward Hopper等藝術家的作品，然而這些相片除了與藝術史有強烈的連結之外，藝術家想表達的意念似乎還要更深一層。在1992年的《Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986)》這幅作品中，藝術家透過史詩般的畫面，呈現1980年代蘇聯阿富汗戰爭的情形。
Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986), 1992
Brasilia, a city built based on the imagination of the future
Human beings always have infinite imagination of the unknown world, especially in the 20th century, when science fiction movies and novels were flourishing. The space race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union also had a significant influence on popular culture and even urban planning. Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was born under such a background.
The “Brasilia” series by French artist Vincent Fournier, through photographs of buildings in Brasilia, presents a surreal impression of the utopian world. In the work of “The National Museum,” a tiny person stands above the National Museum with a white cloud floating in the blue sky above his head. “The picture looks like a dream, and it was a tribute to the surrealist painter Rene Magritte.”
Brasilia is a city built on the plateau between 1956 and 1960, conceived by urban planner Lucio Costa. Meanwhile, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer designed most of the public buildings in the city.
“Brasilia was built based on the imagination of the future city; some buildings are like flying saucers parked in the middle of nowhere. It is like a modern utopian city, which is closely related to the space race back in the 1950s.”
French photographer Vincent Fournier traveled to Brasilia in 2012 and 2017; although the city and architecture are magnificent, he described it as a lonely city. “Brasília is an administrative center. The streets are not lively; people usually work in buildings and don’t have a strong connection.”
In Vincent’s “Brasilia” series, there is no spectacular view of the architecture. Instead, he captures a particular corner of the building with a person sitting alone, which reveals the character of the city.
在人人都可以拍攝的年代，一張照片或許只能吸睛一兩秒，Wilson希望以個人視角記錄香港，留住一個時代的記憶，若干年後回看，至少對自己而言，是有特別意義。2016年，他在東京修讀短期課程時，每日從一個高位拍攝東京，集結成《Japan From Above》一書，「攝影集會鼓勵你拍攝系列式的相片，令作品、想法更加完整。」
