discordant photography

Emanuele Sturlese aka Discordant was born in Spezia (better known as La Spezia, less known as Spiceville) on November 27th 1984 under the sign of Sagittarius. Attending a Graphic Design course he fell in love with creative writing, contemporary art and subsequently enrolled himself in DAMS – School of Arts of Bologna where he’s been living for six months. In the Emilian capital he found an artistically stimulating environment, and during his time there he has produced several collages on many different surfaces and supports. Then he started attending the Academy of Beaux Arts of Carrara, where he developed a passion for photography - especially of abandoned places and dehumanized individuals – and graduated with the highest marks with a thesis about underground artist Prof. Bad Trip (profbadtrip.org). He currently lives in Berlin.
Together with friend Sara Pili he did a two week display at the ARCI circle of San Terenzo (province of La Spezia) and his pictures have been projected at the In Pixels We Trust one-night (Piacenza, February 2007). One of his pictures was named “picture of the month” and published on information and culture magazine Ergo Sum.
On March 2007 he participated to collective exhibition Multisensorial Lab N°3 @ cultural association Kollatino Underground (Rome) where he met Giorgio Nerone who would use one of his shots for the cover of culture magazine LAB’s zero issue.
The same year, on March he displayed his photos at 107, an illegal happening in an abandoned factory in Milan.
On May 2007 inside the RDA May Day of La Spezia he organized the first edition of INNER VISIONS, an event featuring tekno music and photo projections.
On May 2007 he displayed his pictures at the first edition of La Roboterie (myspace.com/laroboterie) @ Galleria dei Serpenti, Rome.
On July 2007 together with Sara Pili (flickr.com/suleika) he did a two week display @ Kino High End, Tacheles (Berlin) whose finissage featured a live gig by OvO (myspace.com/ovo).
From September 16th to 26th he displayed his pictures @ Portrait Cafè (La Spezia). On February 2008 he did a two-week display @ book/sexy shop Betty Books (Bologna) (betty-books.com). On March 2008 he did a display @ alternative queer bar Barbie Deinhoff’s (Berlin) (myspace.com/barbiedeinhoffs), on November 2008 @ MonoBar (Milan) (myspace.com/monomilano). Those five exhibitions took the name of Inner Visions., whose vernissage featured dj/live sets of Danish artist Nikolaj Tange Lange (myspace.com/nikolajlange) or Pablito el drito (myspace.com/pablito_el_drito).
On November 2007 he displayed his pictures at Kindergarten Art Show in a Berlin squat.
On January 2008, with the collaboration of stylist Chiara Brunet he makes a fairy tales-inspired fashion shooting.
He did artworks for the new EP of Sig. Sapio, all-around musician from Grosseto (Italy) (myspace.com/sigsapio) and first album of electro-punk Tuscanian duo Sex:e:reve, (myspace.com/sexereve). He did promotional shoots for experimental/breakbeat project Fernando Poo (myspace.com/fernandopoo), DJ Mr.Ties (myspace.com/mrties), PastedMinds (myspace.com/pastedminds) and Action Recyclage (myspace.com/actionrecyclage).
He also did reports for Italian queer parties LaRoboterie (myspace.com/laroboterie) and CarniScelte (myspace.com/carniscelte).
He’s currently making photosets for Berlin parties Sabot°age Berlin (sabotage-berlin.com, myspace.com/sabotageberlin) and Attenti alla puttana santa (myspace.com/annabolena, idroscalodigitale.blogspot.com).
Other than photography, he loves drawing distractions.

CONTACT:
discordantblackstar@libero.it
WEBSITE:
flickr.com/discordantblackstar
myspace.com/0discordant