Honoured to be among the 16 emerging photographers selected this year by British Journal of Photography for Ones to Watch Talent Issue with my project Head of the Lion! Thanks to my nominators Marco Zanella and Simone Sapienza!
You can get your copy HERE !
Have you seen my book binding works?
My project NIENTE PAURA is now online. It is a personal research about the story of my family.
The words "niente paura" mean "no fear" and they come from a postcard my grandfather sent to my dad during 1957. At the time my dad was 6 years old and the writing says:
Baci da tuo papà e... niente paura!
Kisses from you dad and... no fear!
I will soon have some pictures on a zine a really love, HAMBURGER EYES. Check some of the pics I had on Issue 18 HERE.
San Berillo is one of the historical districts of my hometown (Catania, Sicily). In the late fifties the area was part of a redevelopment plan, unfortunately never completed. After the intervention the area known as San Berillo was drastically reduced and today is mainly know as home of prostitution and two major African communities, the Senegalese and Nigerians.
The article appeared on Vice Magazine Italy Year 12 No.2
I signed a new t-shirt for Diesel with a picture I shot a few years ago in Brooklyn The piece is part of the current collection "ART IS TEE is a unique DIESEL project featuring exclusive t-shirt designs by some of our favoutire creatives from around the world. Timeless styles. Available for one season only."
Endless love to Rini Giannaki and Nicola Formichetti for believing in my art!
You can get it in black or white HERE
Since I was as little kid I used to spend a lot of time in my mother's studio. She is a painter and she introduced me to drawing. When I was 7 I told her that I wanted to be a painter so she asked me to write it on a piece of paper and put a date on it.
And so I did.
And... the reason why I became a photographer instead of a painter is another story.
"When I'll grow up I'll be a painter" Claudio 18 May 1993
(4 years and half old)
"It's a kid with a little cat, both of them wearing a hat" 3 November 1990 (4 years and 4 months old)
A bee ( 14 July 1991)
Two old men eating at a table (4 years and half old)
An egg with a ribbon (5 years old)
I'm very happy to be among the winners of Window of Wonder contest by Tipi Bookshop in Bruxelles, along with Merve Seckin and Adrian Christiaens. One of my pictures from Head of the Lion will be glued on the blinds of the the bookshop for three months. Thank you <3
My friend Alessandra Chiarlo wrote about my work on TIMNBY, an independent curatorial project about photography created by Micaela Flenda. Thank you so much to both of you girls!
© Claudio Majorana
In Scicli with Arianna, testing our new large format camera :)
Sicily, 2013
© Claudio Majorana
Pictures from French Fred exhibition at Bastard Bowl Milan. Thanks Fred for the awesome book!
Check the full gallery HERE
© Claudio Majorana
Egyptian kid, Sicily 2014. From the series We left Libya on a Friday night about life inside an underage male refugee camp.
Out in the newsstand there's an article on Rumore Magazine Issue 302 about Sicilian music scene with my pictures and a little interview about my works and some of the influences between skateboarding and music. Thanks Gianluca Runza and all the featured Sicilian artists. Grab a copy in the Italian newsstands!
Samuel and Giosuè at the skatepark, 2016. Part of Head of the Lion.
Some of the signatures of the new book dummy of Head of the Lion. Six years spent documenting the lives of eigth kids growing up in the Sicilian suburbs. Thanks Arianna Arcara and everyone who helped me in the making of this dummy.
UNA SECONDA ADOLESCENZA is my new interview for i-D Magazine Italy. In this interview I talk about my new project Head of the Lion, my love for US, the Sicilian skateboard scene and much more. Take a look HERE
Recently I started studying book binding. Starting from the basis, here is a saddle stitch bounded mini book. This is helping me to work on the dummy of my next book Head of the Lion.
I will soon show you more of what I'm learning!