Colors Magazine 78 'Dance' Tear Sheets

If you haven't seen the magazine or the images posted about the Colors dance issue, here are the tearsheets in PDF so you can see the magazine and experience the written word.

Kuduro

Panstula

If you'd like to see the earlier posting and see the images solo, then go to this link:
http://chrissaunderssa.blogspot.com/2010/10/colors-magazine-dance-issue-kuduro-mc.html for Kuduro
http://chrissaunderssa.blogspot.com/2010/10/colors-78-dance-pantsula.html for Pantsula

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Africa is GOOD X COLORS MAGAZINE

Earlier this year, I worked on collaboration between Colors Magazine (www.colorsmagazine.com) and Good (www.good.is). The intercontinental collaboration between colors which is based in Italy and Good which is based in the USA all about my home continent Africa. We where given a open brief and almost no budget so we decided to use what we had and make friends with the people we needed work from.

Ending up with something I am very proud of, it was also co-conceptualized by myself, Carlos Mustienes (Writer, Spain) and Josh Levi (USA, Designer). It was also my first Photo editing job.

I have included the Issuu link here where you can have a look at the magazine. There are some of my own images featured in the magazine. As well as this I also hit the streets of downtown Johannesburg (Bree Street) where I tried to find as many products from around Africa as possible. Some of these products where photographed in Italy for the magazine.

If you would like to see the mag you can see a digital copy below, if you would like to download the magazine supplement then it is available on the Colors Magazine website and directly at this link: http://lab.colorsmagazine.com/africa-mon-amour

I would love to hear some feedback on the mag.

Enjoy.
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And the Winner is...

Just found out that I have won the ACP Courier competition Best Photograph in Belgium. Good news. I will be jetting up there in December to receive the prize.

The image that won the prize is from Colors magazine 78 'Dance' and is available at the moment. The interesting thing is that the image that won the prize is one of the un-published images. You have to love the irony in that.

Anyway. Check out the ACP Courier magazine website here http://www.acp-eucourier.info/  and Colors magazine here: http://www.colorsmagazine.com/

If you would like to see the other images from the shoot and the video that was made check out my blog update on the Pantsula story here: http://chrissaunderssa.blogspot.com/2010/10/colors-78-dance-pantsula.html

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Colors 78 'Dance' Kuduro MC Custuleta

In the current issue of Colors, Dance, the team was sent on a wild researching goose chase to find stories on youtube to do with the theme. One of the gems that we came accross was a video of a guy with one leg dancing on top of a car about 8 years ago in Angola to Kuduro music.

After weeks of hunting him down we discovered the one legeed prodigy from Angola, MC Custuleta, in Paris living a life of relative fame and fortune. He is the top of his game when it comes to the niche Kuduro scene in Europe.

I got to spend 4 days with him, experiencing his day to day life of training, practice, signing autographs and one powerful performance in Metz 3 hours east of Paris. It was priceless.

The magazine is available in stores around the world at the moment and the videos from the issue can be seen on Colors Magazines Youtube channel which I shot two of. I have also included the video in this post.

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One of the aims on the job was to re-create a scene from the original video that we found on Youtube. Together we found a scrapyard next to the highway where we got permission to shoot on top of one of the scrapped vehicles.

 

On the first day of shooting the first thing I noticed was that the scenes look to out of location, it looked as if I had shot them somewhere in Angola and not in Paris where we were. So I decided to take Custuleta and his crew of dancers up to the Eiffel tower. A ton of other dancers where around as it was a meeting spot where dance crews come to show there moves and practice. The building which over looked the Eiffel Tower is called Le Palais de challiot

At the live performance in Metz.

Colors Magazine on Youtube

Colors Magazine launched their Youtube channel yesterday. It features two of my videos as well as an erray of other video makers and photographers from around the worlds amazing work. The theme for the new issue was Dance and I flew to South Africa (Pantsula) and Paris (Kuduro) to shoot two documentaries and videos.

The first one is about a group of Pantsula dancers from Orange farm South and the other about a one legged Kuduro Dancer originally from Angola but now living it up in Paris.

I will post the full stories and tear-sheets soon once the magazine has hit shelves.

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The New Colors Magazine on the Vogue Italy Website

This morning I noticed that two of my images are featured on the Vogue Italia website featuring the launch of the all new Colors magazine, which should hit shelves worldwide within the next two weeks.

I have included one of the images featured, aswell as the link to the Vogue Article.

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One Legged Kuduro Madness

I spent the week following MC Custuleta, a one legged Kuduro MC from Angola who now lives in Paris.

The story will be in the new Colors magazine, coming out next month.

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Muscle Men

I have started a new collaboration with Photographer Federica Palmarin here in Italy on Body Builders. Its about analysing the surreal subculture. Been at the Italian Body Building Championships which was held in the beautiful town of San Remo was like a sick dream of sorts. I felt like I was trapped in a world where I could not communicate and didn't quiet understand yet. It interested me immensely and I want to delve deeper.

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Colors Magazine - Never seen the sea

My first assignment when I arrived at Fabrica this year was to go back to South Africa and document the journey a young girl from Soweto township in Johannesburg called Banele Khumalo. The story ended up being a Augmentative reality video piece in the mag and the photographs where never published.

I have included my favorite shots from the documentary.

Enjoy,

Chris

What I've been working on for the past 4 months

Here is the cover of the all new Colors magazine. Basically what I have been working on for the past 4 months. Our new issue will be the dance issue and I need as many ideas as possible so if you have any please email me.

Chris

Colors Magazine Italy & The Smarteez

Colors magazine in Italy has recently published my Smarteez shoot and it is now also on the web. Check out the link below.

http://lab.colorsmagazine.com/contributed/smarteez

Awesome!

Chris