Manuel Capurso

The contemporary urban society obliterates the typical social bonds experienced in small communities, creating a sort of hybrid where all the bases of social solidarity lose significance making the people completely disconnected from the surrounding environment. People only exist in their own world, they do not know each other and they never will.
The individual’s knowledge of each other, a factor, which their existence depends on, become so minute, that their existence as social creatures rapidly diminishes. The individuals are represented in a dreamlike state of mind always looking somewhere else towards an imaginary infinite.
Light, darkness, colour and shadow find themselves in a sort of equilibrium, as they were dancing in circle, and the individuals, winding through anonymous masses on the street of unidentified cities, gain visibility only within the surface, disappearing almost immediately afterwards in the shade of the surrounding darkness.

mancapu@yahoo.it

www.manuelcapurso.com

Education

2007 MA Photography, with distinction London College of
Communication.

2006 Graduate Certificate in Digital Lens Based Imagemaking,
London College of Communication, London.

2000 Master in Labour Science, Statale University, Milan, Italy - Universidad de Granada, Spain.

1997/98 Degree in Political Science, specialisation in International
Politics Statale University, Milan, Italy.

Awards

2008 Photo Espana, Descubrimientos 2008 – finalist.
2007 Student discovery award – selection 100 finalists.

Group Exhibitions

2007 Nikon Discovery Awards, London Olympia, Conference Centre.
2007 MA Final Show, The Galleries, London College of Communication, London.
2007 Photography for Beginners, Eckersley Gallery, London.
2006 Digitalis, Sassoon Gallery, London.

Languages

Italian: mother tongue
English: fluent
Spanish: fluent