Angie Stergio's Photographic Investigations

At the end of the day, there are no mistakes. But, sometimes, there are surprises.

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Time remembered

December 13, 2015 in black&white, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

Looking at old shots while listening to Bill Evans seemed like a fine way to pass a Sunday afternoon. The music gave them a completely different dimension. And here they are...

Christmas light

December 12, 2015 in black&white, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street portraits, Christmas, Holidays, light, christmas sppirit, christmas spirit

It is amazing how some of my subjects naturally glow with that light. I love them, not only because they make me happy, but also because this warm, natural christmas light is perfect for photos. No flash needed, ever!

Cookies and cream

December 10, 2015 in black&white, coffee, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

Photographing people drinking coffee or smoking is a routine for a photographic investigator… Photographing them eating cookies on the other hand is more challenging and a great deal more revealing. One way or the other, most photographic subjects have mastered the art of gesturing while enjoying a coffee or a smoke. Cookies are more unconventional. But I think much more enjoyable both for my subjects and me.

It might as well be spring

December 09, 2015 in black&white, coffee, december, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

Bill Evans Trio was playing "It might as well be spring"on the radio. It was 1962 in a parallel dimension and the beginning of December was resembling more like the end of March. Her name was Martha Jones and she enjoyed her cold coffee in the middle of this springlike winter along with a cigarette. Cigarette smoking was strongly encouraged at this time in this dimension and that was making my investigations much more easy, because subjects are more relaxed when they smoke. I never rally knew who she was, but that wasn't my job anyway.

December

December 01, 2015 in coffee, holidays, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street portraits, winter, december

It's a mystic word. A promise. The first December morning coffee is proven to have magic powers and a trancsedental quality. A photographic investigator finds it very difficult to shoot a subject who drinks her first December morning coffee in black&white. Everything turns into colour. Sometimes you have to resign. Love, warmth, togetherness, friendship, protection are now not impossible notions. Even a photographic investigator must have faith in something...

The end of Blue November

November 29, 2015 in black&white, lonely days, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

November was surprisingly warm, more like the end of April… But people are never satisfied, so it was also surprisingly blue, as if everyone was expecting the cold to blame for their misery and misfortunes… So blue it was… And since November was so disappointing, suddenly, there was a Christmas yearning and everyone was starting to think about nice things they could do for one another… presents, phone calls, invitations, bottles of wine, encouragements, kind words, friendships restored. And all this because nothing bad ever comes from blue…

Dreams within dreams

November 25, 2015 in black&white, lonely days, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

Sometimes a photographic investigator realises that all their assignments, all their investigations and all their subjects are not "real"… they are just movements, actions, thoughts and characters in a dream. We do we continue to investigate then? I will try to answer this to another post.

The mystery of the Vappa Light Drive

November 19, 2015 in black&white, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits, summer, travel

The Vappa Light is essential to space and especially, time travel. It is the only known -to a very few, I assure you- way to cross great distances, not only interstellar and inter dimensional, but also emotional and psychic, in both space and time, without serious consequences. Not very serious anyway… Because time travel has always some consequences. The Vappa Light Drive has it's own will and only when it agrees with the will and the intentions of it's "user" something can happen. It can be approached in a few very distinct and very mystical places around the world and fate has led me to one of it's sources, following a tip about a job. It was a routine photographic investigation, but, what I did not know at the time was that I would be given the opportunity to "catch" my subject moments before a Vappa Light trip would take place. In the shots you can see the traveller girl bathing in it. A few moments later she disappeared.

The long goodbye

November 16, 2015 in black&white, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.” I am just quoting Raymond Chandler in "The long goodbye". I was in Ipanema again and the girl was saying goodbye. She was not originally my subject but she became one of the best ones, I must say… She will be missed.

You can hide, but you can't run...

November 12, 2015 in black&white, coffee, lonely days, monochrome, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street portraits, street, summer

This was the password phrase. I was investigating "The woman without a face", a notorious and mysterious ufologist and ancient civilisations specialist who had recently made a groundbreaking discovery… She was hiding in Plain Sight, a coffee shop that everybody could see but only the password would get you in. It was a 4 shots investigation and I can say one thing with certainty: she had beautiful hands.

Bellatrix

November 11, 2015 in black&white, monochrome, people, portrait, street portraits, street, summer

She was known by the name of Penthesilea, the tragic, beautiful and heroic queen of the Amazons. Achilleas fell in love with her after he killed her in the Trojan War… The Roman poet Vergil wrote of her: "The ferocious Penthesilea, gold belt fastened beneath her exposed breast, leads her battle-lines of Amazons with their crescent light-shields… a warriors, a maiden who dares to fight with men". And he called her "Bellatrix". I investigated her in 4 shots. An Amazon Queen would'nt allow me more than this, anyway…

Photographically investigating Angie

November 08, 2015 in black&white, lonely days, portrait, self portrait, street portraits

Do I see myself as I would like to be or do I like what I see? Investigating me is not easy. But it's surprisingly fun sometimes…

Life is the backstage

November 02, 2015 in black&white, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

You find your subject in a coffee house, drinking coffee, smoking, talking about their plans, their dreams, their hopes, their fears, looking ahead towards their "life", what they think their life will or should be… Meanwhile, this life is right there, in that coffee house, with you, in a place they don't even "see". That gives a photographic investigator something to think about…

Mona Lisa's symmetry

October 29, 2015 in black&white, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

She was known to the photographic investigators circles as "La Gioconda" because the man who was obsessively chasing her was convinced that she had a relation to the famous Leonardo's model… Of course his conviction was well established after years of investigations and the study of numerous family trees… I came much later to the case and my job was to take several shots of her while she was hanging around with friends in Europe. If you've asked me, I would definitely say that she had a resemblance with the most mysterious and intriguing female portrait in history. And there was also something else about her… She had a "symmetry" in all of her existence. The way she moved, the way she was standing, the way she was smoking. Her secret was well hidden under a "girl next door" attitude. But I knew. Did she? My employer never said…

Don't look now

October 27, 2015 in people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street portraits, street

Venice and a red coat. Nicolas Roeg 1973 movie comes to mind… I'm still a great deal scared of Venice because of it. My subject had a red coat and was always looking at something: a camera, a cell phone, an art installation or something strange (that explain's why she was looking at me). It just made me wanna shout: "Don't look now!" but instead I took some shots.

The woman from Morocco

October 22, 2015 in people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street portraits, summer

Another mysterious character I was hired to investigate. I picked up a very bright sunny day to do that… and I managed to make her sunglasses disappear… But she was very resourceful, as you can see. Nobody really knew anything about her… Only that she travelled a lot… Was she dangerous? Maybe? Was I scared? You will never know.

The secret of Jackie O'Can (part I)

October 12, 2015 in black&white, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street portraits

She belonged in one of the most infamous secret societies of Venice. According to my well informed connections she occupied a key role in the "Mister's" circle, a group of enigmatic, mysterious individuals that roamed about this beautiful city, keeping their purpose well hidden. Of course I knew who they were and what they were doing. But to find out, I had to take the most sacred vow of secrecy that exists in my profession, not to mention that one word slipping from my mouth would fatally compromise Juanita and Lupe, my most valuable assistants. The "Mister" was not kidding…

Revelations (part I)

October 09, 2015 in people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

It was the beginning of the most unpredictable fall of the decade… Revelations were about to take place, we knew that much, but when? And revelations, like solutions, never come from where you expect them to…

Expressions

October 01, 2015 in black&white, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

There is much and at the same time nothing at all to be said about the power of the facial expressions. For the photographic investigator, it's a full time job. For the lover of the human experience and human nature, a challenge. And for some, a powerful tool. The latter ones are usually the subjects of my investigations…

On the subject of beauty

September 30, 2015 in lonely days, people, photographic chronicles, portrait, street, street portraits

There is nothing to be said, really. Beauty is like true art: it makes you stop, dissolves your thoughts, makes you look at things like a child looks at things, with eyes wide open, receptive, with no preconceptions, like for the first time. Some of my subjects have that meditative effect on me… they make me see connections between everything that exists… Put the blame on me...