Self-portrait in white shirt and fish tie by Fulvio Bonavia

03/13/2013 – 2:49 pm

Asked to shoot a self-portrait in his signature style for our latest SMart Book photo annual, Fulvio Bonavia created this image of himself wearing a fish as a tie. The photo is a sly allusion to his immensely popular food-based fashion still lifes, many of which are collected in the book A Matter of Taste, […]

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“Fulvio Bonavia makes cauliflower bobble hats and watermelon helmets. Cool!” —It’s Nice That

10/15/2012 – 12:20 pm

It’s Nice That, a blog and print magazine “championing creativity across the art and design world,” recently featured Fulvio Bonavia‘s uniquely ingenious food-based fashion still lifes from his book A Matter of Taste. Click here to read “Fulvio Bonavia makes cauliflower bobble hats and watermelon helmets. Cool!”

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Fulvio Bonavia on his “food dresses” for Garage mag

10/11/2011 – 1:19 pm

Are you familiar with Garage magazine? The creation of Dasha Zhukova, it features collaborations between major players in the worlds of fashion and art, such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Marc Jacobs, and…Fulvio Bonavia. For Garage’s debut issue, Fulvio—whose ingenious A Matter of Taste book of conceptual still lifes of apparel and accessories […]

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More International Photography Awards: the Honorable Mentions

08/31/2010 – 8:24 am

Last week, I wrote about the Stockland Martel photographers who took 1st Place at this year’s IPAs. This week, let’s take a look at the photographers from our roster who received Honorable Mentions: Fulvio Bonavia, Jim Fiscus, Rolph Gobits, Lauren Greenfield, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Nadav Kander, John Midgley, Michael Muller, John Offenbach, Martin Sigal, and Luca […]

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Five days in Hong Kong with Fulvio Bonavia

07/16/2010 – 8:05 am

Stockland Martel photo rep Emily Leonardo just got back from “a whirlwind trip” to Hong Kong with Milan-based photographer Fulvio Bonavia and his wife, Kristina Radic, and has filed this report of their adventure… . . We spent the past week running around the steaming hot 100F city doing press interviews to promote an exhibition […]

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Fulvio Bonavia at Feature Shoot

05/17/2010 – 10:38 am

. Alison Zavos, the photo editor of Feature Shoot, has posted a selection of photos by our own Fulvio Bonavia, who, as she notes, was named Photographer of the Year for 2010 by the Mobius Awards. You can read her post here. . . .

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Mobius names Fulvio Bonavia “Photographer of the Year” for his boundary-pushing imagery

02/22/2010 – 12:01 pm

. Our congratulations to Fulvio Bonavia! He’s just been named Photographer of the Year by the Mobius Awards. The Mobius Awards have been around since 1971, but this particular award is new. From the press release: “The award represents the competition’s intent to document and celebrate the image qualities that make a photographer’s body of […]

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Care for a broccoli handbag or some eggplant slippers?

01/05/2010 – 11:33 am

.. Fulvio Bonavia’s book A Matter of Taste (Hachette Australia), which features the conceptual photographer’s sublimely absurd still lifes of apparel and accessories that he fashioned from foodstuffs, continues to wow the press overseas. The newspaper Corriere della Sera in Italy, in fact, has just posted a 15-image photo gallery from the coffee-table book, including […]

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