"...A wonderful and heart-wrenching suite of images from Thailand, touching and emotional. Excellent..."
Tomasz Tomaszewski, National Geographic's photographer
"...Mirko Rotondi, works with great dedication…portraits are often surrounded by a specific setting. Gestures stress the deepness of the scene, characterized by a strong dynamic expressivity and amazing theatre result. His images are near to David Alan Harvey and Steve Mc Curry style..."
Roberto Mutti, italian critic
"...high quality images and photography… he works close to the subject with real naturalness..."Â
Giovanna Calvenzi, photoeditor
"...particular capacity to work close to the subject..."
Denis Curti, italian critic
 "...I like his work about Thailand…it’s really beautiful..."
Gianni Berengo Gardin, italian Photographer Â
"...his images are really fashinating…them make me feel “the atmosphere†of the place..."
Carla Polastro, translator and traveler
 "...his work is really excellent..."
Marco Rovere, Nital italy
"...really beautiful photographs..."
Sabine Scholz, TeNeues Editions
Hello ppl!
I'd like to meet persons interested about Photography, Music, Cinema, and Travel. I'm here also to show my work to everyone who's interested about it...but one important thing: I don't like to be called artist...I'm just a photographer that loves photography and does it with great passion and love!
I'll be glad if You would like to
see my whole projects to my official web site
www.mirkorotondi.com
Each image belongs to me and cannot be used without my authorization.
I ONLY USE FILM CAMERA, I DO NOT USE DIGITAL CAMERA.
Thx, MRK
LADYBOY - lifestyle
The slide above, shows my last project LADYBOY. This project was born in March 2004 to release a new kind of reportage about the LadyBoys. The LadyBoy is famous in Thailand for his (or maybe I should say “herâ€)eccentricity: crazy, colorful, sexy...someone funny, someone shy...someone easy...someone else complicated. LadyBoy is the thai transgender. Those young people, normaly 22/28 years old, use to move from their place to go to the capital cities of Sex: Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Samui Island. They chose a lifestyle most of times to the limits; some of them live alone in small rooms; someone in dirty cellars in perifery, or dangerous town; someone else in apartments with other friends. LadyBoy lives earning money with prostitution, or working in some go- go bars like Drag Queen dancing, singing or doing musical performance. When I’ve got the idea to make this project, I was looking for something more than classical images about LadyBoy at bar, drinking and talking with foreigners. My work shows the hide aspect, outside go-go bar; their place, their habits, their different personality...in their little world, most of time contained in 15mt in a cellar transformed in a little room, with Buddha images, and picture about King and Queen of Thailand (loved by everyone)...among coloured walls, old air conditioning and some big cockroachs. My target was to photograph LadyBoys in the most complete way, in Bangkok, Samui Island, Pattaya and Phuket. I’ve spent some months there, living like a thai people and it made me build up necessaries friendships for my work; I had to come into LadyBoy’s World. I didn’t want to look like a professional photographer because I wanted take natural and dynamic pictures; and little by little them trusted of me. I’ve worked most of time in the night and to the limits; fast transferts, strange phone-called, short flights, bus, mototaxy, long waits, unforseens, few sleep, and extreme situations, with tropical hot and 80% humidity; rain, mud, and little visibility to go to their place, in Samui and Phuket slum, or to their cellars in old houses placed in dark lanes in Pattaya, not so far from go-go bars. Thanx to Patchamonwan Jindasing my guide and thai translator (when english wasn’t enough) that helped me to release this project and in my absurd requests ;-)
I apologize if my english is not so good:)
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