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Honorable Mention BIFA 2021 People / Portrait

Watch The Birdie

  • Photographer
    Kristian Piccoli
  • Agency / Studio
    Piccoli Portraits
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in People / Portrait

Portrait of a film maker. The phrase "Watch the Birdie" is an instruction given by a photographer to his subject. Early photographers would hold a prop, such as a bird, in order to get the subject to look into the camera. The film maker has a fascination for all such film memorabilia including the old film camera he holds.

With more than 25 years as a portrait photographer Kristian Piccoli possesses a keen sense of the avant-garde.Passionate and deeply intuitive, with a sensitive eye, there is a strong narrative vision contained within his images. To Kristian, photography is not merely picture taking. It is an expression of ideas, capturing the essence of a moment or the smallest glimpse of a person you might have only met minutes before.