Important Notice: In what is one of the more unexpected messages through a collaboration, photographer and artist Alessandro “Zuek” Simonetti has joined forces with IUTR to launch a collab titled “Shame on You.”
The series of black-and-white images displayed on the hoodie and other designs were taken by CCTV cameras at the Chinatown Daily, where the owners posted publicly to try to deter petty crime.
As a photographer, he said he’s always been interested in alternative ways of collecting images, including those that don’t come straight from his own camera. During his daily stop at the New York City Daily, he noticed how surveillance cameras posted photocopied printouts of photographs, which he perceived to be similar to contemporary “Wanted” signs. They first caught their attention in 2007 – years before the start of the cancellation culture and before people started using their smartphones to document what they saw as indiscretions.
In addition to having a distinct aesthetic “the part that is attractive”, Simonetti said, the images convey “the idea of judging on our own”. “I originally stole it from the refrigerator of a deli in Chinatown. I went in and took out the posters. I’ve collected eight or nine so far,” he added, adding there is a recording of him taking them himself. In 2007, Milan His work was shown at the 2009 exhibition of Via Farini.
The “Shame on You” collection includes a reversible bomber jacket, a hoodie, a long-sleeved T-shirt, a T-shirt, and printed carpenter pants. It is being sold online and in select stores, including the IUTR outpost in Milan. Photographer Blake Kunin shot the look book in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. Retail prices range from $85 to $350.
After 16 years living in New York City, the artist is now dividing his time between Italy and New York. He knew nothing about a recent news report from a bodega worker, Jose Alba, who has been accused of fatally stabbing a man who attacked him over a $3 dispute with his girlfriend. With no knowledge of that incident, Simonetti insisted that the capsule collection had been created six months earlier. An IUTER spokesperson later reiterated that point via email.
Simonetti said, “However, according to the release anticipated, I was not aware of it at all. … If anything, it is” [project] for me [about] Uncovering something that’s in New York’s DNA. Of course, there is no hidden negative connotation behind it. New York is such a crazy city. it hurts to hear [news],
He is working on another New York-focused venture, a book featuring several images of people playing basketball on the city’s West Fourth Street court, known as “The Cage”. Is. For four consecutive summers before the pandemic hit, he chronicled some of the street basketball he played there and is editing photos for an upcoming coffee table book that “will tell the story of a specific corner that still really York is real and alive, and in a way resists change, even though everything around it is changing,” he said.
“It will be a basketball book, but it will really be a book about New York City and a specific site, including everything that happens around that court.”
Originally published at Pen 18
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