The Cigar & Tobacco Festival is back in Sangiustino Umbro (PG) Italy in June 11th-12th. The portable darkroom with the PhotoBooth 800 will be again on the stage to shoot wetplate portraits at the event. Claim your entrance ticket at the Cigar & Tobacco Festival 2022 now. Photogallery of the wet plate collodion portraits made…
I will be there with the portable darkroom and the PhotoBooth 800 to shoot wet plate portraits at the event. The Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride takes place in many town all around the World in the same day. In Città di Castello (Umbria) there is one of the largest meeting of Italy. Follow me there and…
I’m back to Instagram with my brand-new account which is michele.pero.official now. After having been hacked I could not restore my old profile which have been abandoned. It’s keeping spamming around and I cannot handle it anymore. Just please disavow the hacked michele.pero12 if you stumble on it (that’s how the hackers have renamed my…
Important notice! My Instagram account @michele.pero has been hacked. It now seems to be @michele.pero12 and behind there are the hacker guys who are sending spam messages to all my followers and followed accounts. Please DO NOT trust such messages. I’m working to reset it or to abandon it. They may look like as follows:…
It’s been a while for me back to Instagram and so far my accout hit 1k followers. I want to say thank you for your support and give you something back. This picture was taken in 2017 during the Werkstattwoche at Lüben (Germany). During that art symposium I carried an entire darkroom I set up…
Corneliani Fall/Winter 2021 campaign in Milan, shot with wetplate collodion technique These are the wet plates and backstage gallery of the Corneliani shooting taken in Milan in 2021 summer for Ten Artist production and Adriano Russo photographer. Michele Pero was assigned to shoot the wet plate collodion photographs you can see on the official Corneliani…
Photogallery of the wet plate collodion portraits made during the 2021 Cigar Festival in Sangiustino Umbro, Italy, with the PhotoBooth 800. Galleria di ritratti ottocenteschi al collodio umido realizzati durante il Cigar Festival di Sangiustino Umbro 2021 con il PhotoBooth Ottocento.
My picture “Dancers at Mauerpark” has been awarded best photo within the Instagram contest #HalloHaraldHauswald promoted by C/O Berlin and Ostkreuz Agency Berlin. The contest was started by C/O Berlin following the lockdown in Germany, right during the opening of the solo exhibition “Voll das Leben!” by the famous ex-DDR photographer Harald Hauswald. C/O Berlin…
At Villa Magherini Graziani, in Sangiustino (PG) the festival dedicated to tobacco returns, the “Cigar & Tobacco Festival” fourth edition, 26-27 September 2020. The Cigar festival is currently the only event in Italy dedicated to slow smoking enthusiasts, a unique moment for producers and importers of cigars from all over the world, an opportunity to…
Launching these days The Defective Photographer. Why defective? Because The kind of photography I’m doing today is as defective as I am. I’ve been committed with perfection for decades. But…what is perfection? Am I perfect? Can I make something perfect? Perfection is very subjective. Who can say he or she is perfect? We all know…