Photography is an art that does not get enough attention. We have documented some of the best from our own muddled perspectives here at think design in the past 49 issues. One that we have yet to give attention to is Alessio Cocchi a talented photographer from Italy who makes Phuket his second home.
Today in addition to his photography, he has created a photography café in Naiharn where you can go and enjoy that cross-pollination of art that we find so compelling here and pushes us to do events like our art dinners.
Alessio Cocchi today is mainly based in Milan and is best known for his partnership with brands and magazines such as Gucci, Ferragamo and Vogue. He born into a numerous and creative family that helped him become the creative force that he is today. Tuscany where he lived as a child still inspires him and the colors and scents of the surrounding landscape became an inspirational source as he explored his own creative instincts that have led him to rise in the world of photography.
He started his career working as an assistant for a fashion and still-life photographer but immediately afterwards, decided to set up his own photo studio and thus launched his career as a professional photographer. At the age of 23, his images had already made their way into prestigious publications such as Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Alessio's style is characterized by the unique and striking moods he creates through a meticulous study of lighting and its effects. Today his work allows him to travel all over the world.
The café is a chance to bring some of this photographic inspiration to Phuket and to would be photographers in the future. Here you can see his work and sample some of the food of his native Italy, letting one inspire the other. What could be better? While sitting at the café and tasting the food, you also can feel the moods he creates in his photography through hi study of light.
One of Alessio Cocchi’s projects is called symmetry. He explained interestingly that the idea of perfection has always been for him an enemy to fight against. It is difficult to be perfect and it is difficult even to come close to perfection and symmetry to him is a representation of this. In the past he was teased and ridiculed for his obsession with symmetry. He believed that by creating symmetry in his photography, he could make everything that I photograph become beautiful. He explains with the following “I am a photographer for passion, principle and fame. My nose is crooked, one of my eyes is slightly smaller than the other and one arm, the right one, a bit longer than the left. I am not symmetrical. No one is symmetrical just as no one is perfect. I know that syllogisms are not popular anymore but since they also are symmetrical, I use them very often. I began to see my photography as if it were a syllogism, a palindrome, seeking perfection. Then I came to the realization that perfection does not always mean beauty. Though not necessarily beautiful, perfection does make things interesting and strange.” Head on down to the art café in Phuket and check out his work.
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