I will be in SAO PAULO - BRAZIL from 4th till 14th of december, if you want to shoot with me I can make a very good deal, just want to have some cash available for the trip. Please send me a message.
***UPDATE***
ONLY PAID SHOOTS at the moment
From october 2009 I will NOT be doing any test shoots anymore, BUT there are a few exceptions.
-I will test with you if you have my costs of film (polaroid included) and processing paid. That varies from 40 pounds to 100, depending how much we are going to use. Still applies the fact that I need to want to work with you.
-I will test with you if it's an opportunity to be on a exhibition or published in a magazine or somewhere that will give me good exposure.
-I will test with you if I think you are the next Top Model.
-I will test with you if it's an amazing project where everything is already arranged and I don't have to go after team, location, etc . In other words, if you have a project that is out of this world and just needs a photographer, I will consider with all my heart.
This is not a strike of arrogance, is something simple called BUDGET. I might resume selective testing next year.
**I've taken a lot of pictures off my portfolio here as I won't be premium any longer, so please check my website or to see a lot more of my work go to my Flickr page, which is where i post all the pictures from all the shoots i've done:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caroline_bonarde/
I like natural beauty, rawness, unusualness, androginy and everything that has essence.
I would define my work as Romantic, Dreamy and Melancholic.
To me a photoshoot is very similar to a dream. When it's going on it's confuse, uncertain, clumsy, delightful, ticklish... Once is done i hardly remember it, just a few special frames are preserved... I want my pictures to be these little pieces of memory... the models are not real anymore but characters in my dream. I can't avoid that.
The photographers on my top friends are artists that I look up to and are great inspirations. I also have a lot of influence from cinema (David Lynch, Wong Kar Wai, Almodovar, Coppolas, among others ) and painters (pre-raphaelites specially).
I love Polaroid, film and specially square format film.
My film cameras are: Pentacon Six, Canon 7, Minolta Spectra Pro, Polaroid 600 and I just got a new baby, a Canon 5D Mark II!!!
I REALLY WANT START TO SHOOT SOME NUDES, SO I'LL GIVE PRIORITY TO THAT. Really classy, natural, fragile style, but i want models willing to show some skin, so if you are interested get in touch.
Models will be asked to sign a Standard Release Form, as I'm submitting work for competitions and magazines.
At the moment I am doing TFCD with people that I have a personal interest in working with, but if you would like to hire my services I am sure we can work a very good deal.
***I do not pay models or anybody else that want to work with me, I do TFCD and if we are working together is because it will benefit both our portfolios. i have quite a lot of expenses when I shoot because i use a lot of film and Polaroids (which are now almost extinct therefore very expensive!), and that I will gladly cover, but other than that, unless it is my project and i have to cover the price for a location or something, it is your own expense. ***
If you would like to work with me drop me a line. I'm based in London. Also, I have a year old daughter so my schedule is a bit tight, but we can always work something out.
Cheers!
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"An artistic image
is one that ensures its own development,
its historical viability.
An image is a grain,
a self-evolving retroactive organism.
It is a symbol of actual life,
as opposed to life itself.
Life contains death.
An image of life, by contrast,
excludes it, or else sees in it
a unique potential
for the affirmation of life."
Andrey Tarkovsky
-Featured at Digital Photographer N.89, out for sales on 3rd of november 2009.
-Runner up in the competition Duracell: Recharge Your Batteries together with the Independent. Picture published at the saturday magazine of The Independent. Also exhibited at the Getty Images Gallery in London from 29th september till 25th of october 2008.
-Picture selected to take part at the Finlandia Vodka ‘Pure Emotion’ Exhibition held at Proud Gallery, Camden, London, september 2008.
-3 pictures exhibited at The Mall Gallery from the 26th till 30th of may 2009. The Istituto Marangoni Graduates show.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caroline_b … 569751586/
