Fontanesi

Fontanesi

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Instagram account @fontanesi has existed for 5 years and situates daily snapshots of random people juxtaposed against other images and settings often creating humorous scenarios. 

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“It all started by chance and the desire to photograph things that I personally find amusing.”

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#seriecappelli

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Juxtapositions are offered in wide variety of formats from scaling to altogether different backdrops or a reversal of the original photo. Rather than reducing the photographs to merely humorous, the images, together, offer alternative perspectives of otherwise banal photos. 

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“In the beginning, the page was urban landscape daily snaps, but after noticing a steady proliferation of profiles with similar subjects to mine, I found my own direction to make the difference.”

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