A talk with Lorenzo Castore
by giuli 24 May 2011
Lorenzo Castore, friend and internationally acclaimed photographer, tells us about his collaboration with bastard and his projects for the future with this brief interview.
Lorenzo is represented by L’Agence Vu’ of Paris and is known, among other things, for winning the Mario Giacomelli Prize and the Leica European Publisher Award, besides having published the books Nero and Paradiso.
Since many years he splits himself between Rome, Krakow, Florence, Paris and Milan.
How did you start collaborating with bastard?
I am often lucky enough to be working on what i like with who i like. Dealing with people that are passionate about what they do simply makes my life better.
So one day Giuliano Berarducci, good friend and good photographer and very close to bastard, asked me if i wanted to do a t-shirt for them.
I had already visited bastard a few times, the place is awesome, the t-shirts very well done and Claudio and the boys are the kind of people that i like, so…
Tell us something about the photo printed on the Caged T-shirt…
During my wanderings i often end up in zoos. I love animals and although the zoo can be a very sad place, it also metaphorically makes you feel on the same level of the animal behind the bars. Who never felt that way? I almost always do. This is a lion from the Berlin zoo. He radiated a mix of wanting to break through the bars and resignation. I like the first thing better.
Tell us about your current projects, what are you working on right now?
One of the main things obsessing my days right now is a film that i co-directed with my friend and film-maker Adam Cohen.
It narrates about the life in two rooms of a brother and sister in Krakow that i used to regularly take photo of. I shared a lot of time with them during my last years living there. Their names are Ewa and Piotr, they’re in their sixties. They come from a well-off bourgeois family and they dissipated a considerable inherited fortune in a very short time. Now they live with no electricity and i can tell they have lost interest in the world.
We’re trying to make a movie on non-sense, on the mysterious beauty of life even when it becomes impossible, on a relationship made of repulsion and mutual necessity between siblings. It will be called No Peace Without War; it’s becoming more complicated everyday but i won’t get my peace of mind until it’s close enough to what it has to be.