It’s Street Fashion!
“It’s Street Fashion!” is an extract from “Sicily,” my more general work, which I have been pursuing since the first edition of the book was released in 2017.
Subsequently, “Sicily” was transformed into an annual publication, a “private diary” in the form of a large format magazine. In 2024, number 5 has just been released. I see so much fashion on the streets, and sometimes, it’s just as surprising as fashion shows. My XF10 is very quick to catch women walking and running around the city. With a small compact camera in my pocket, it is a lot of fun and makes me stay close to people. With a large DSLR, it would be impossible.
RIGHT: Fuji X100S . F/2.0 . 1/60″ . ISO 800
RIGHT: Fuji X100S . F/16 . 1/125″ . ISO 400
Sicily is my homeland, and I showed it in my own way. I look for a way to interpret the spirit of the insights of Jean Baudrillard, and the way I take reminds me of the improvisation of jazz musicians when they start playing and then leave notes free to seek new ways with improvisation.
Photography that interests me now is the one that has the total freedom of the gaze. Subversive and rebellious, a wild photography that defies categorization and labels.
RIGHT: Fuji X100S . F/9 . 1/60″ . ISO 400
RIGHT: Fuji X100S . F/2.0 . 1/60″ . ISO 800
My photography is a graphic literature that bases its existence between memory and poetry. Between the real and the imaginary. It ceases to be functional to reality, remaining functional in itself.
“The act of taking photographs, and the image produced, in some way, is the irruption of reality into the reality we know. In the end, the important thing is always the emotional experience.” (The street photographer’s book, MESSICO 2016)
“To settle down, like a new language that claims to be understood, Massimo Gurciullo is an active witness of an era that has abandoned the mists of the dawn to become clear reality, luminous and obscure, contradictory and linear. “Sicily” is his statement, his declaration of intent, something to deal with.” Giuseppe Cicozzetti ( Scriptphotography )
RIGHT: Fuji XF10 . F/8 . 1/30″ . ISO 500
RIGHT: Fuji X100S . F/2.0 . 1/30″ . ISO 800
RIGHT: Oppo Reno2 Z . F/1.7 . 1/50″ . ISO 1773
RIGHT: Fuji XF10 . F/8 . 1/30″ . ISO 4000
RIGHT: Fuji XF10 . F/8 . 1/30″ . ISO 320
RIGHT: Fuji XF10 . F/5.6 . 1/750″ . ISO 200
RIGHT: Fuji XF10 . F/8 . 1/30″ . ISO 1250
RIGHT: Fuji XF10 . F/8 . 1/90″ . ISO 200
Massimo GURCIULLO born in Sicily. In 1982 he moved to Paris and began his profession. Mainly nudes and portraits represent for many years (more than 30) the main subject of his work.
Exhibits in France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Switzerland. Produces photography books, the first “NUDI” presents the nude works of the period 1982-1983.
“Portraits Cycle N ° 3” is a handmade artist’s book in 100 signed and numbered copies. It is a book about portraits in the studio, an analogical work that GURCIULLO personally prints in the darkroom.
Then comes the 2012 book “Portraits… 30 ans”, which collects the first 30 years of his studio portraits.
In 2013 he leaves the studio and goes into the street with a digital camera. After 4 years, the book “Sicily” is published.
“I start wandering around the city with a Fuji X100, and finally, afterwards, I find the ideal tool in the Fuji XF10.”
