PROJECTS
First Ever Project Headshot Clinic
The Headshot Clinic was born in 2006 as a little germ of an idea. Niccolo, a professional photographer, began to take notice how many of his friends had asked him to take their picture for their Facebook profile. So he sent an e-mail to a bunch of friends from different sectors of society and asked them if they wanted to participate in a little project. He took 62 pictures, 63 if you include the dog, that day. One day in January 2007, everyone uploaded their new profile picture in Facebook, Multiply, Friendster and whatever else is there and caused quite a stir.
Project Headshot Clinic AWARE 2008
The crowd trickled onto Fiamma last Dec. 1 2008 to witness the unveiling of super photographer Niccolo Cosme's latest exhibit: Headshot Clinic Aware.
This would be Cosme's third or fourth for the year. One would think the idea would be getting redundant except Cosme is not just a man with a camera; he's an artist with a vision.
Using profile pictures on people's social networking sites (such as Facebook) as a virtual global gallery and taking everyone's inherent vanity and using it as platform to send out positive messages has been the ongoing evolution of Cosme's Headshot Clinic. (read more)
One World Series 2008
When people took note of the first Headshot Clinic, there was no doubt that the young photographer would be plagued with requests to do it again. When he realized how big the project is becoming, he knew it was time to bring it to the next level.
“I wanted something more profound, something deeper than vanity,” he explains getting into this year’s clinic. He saw this as an avenue to get a message across. “I wanted it to help promote peace and unity.” That’s how the concept of One World came to be. Realizing that the photos would be seen on social networking sites that can be viewed by everyone in the world who has their own account—he saw the potential for promoting an idea. “Demographically speaking and geographically speaking, it really is endless,” he says about the exposure one can get from the internet. (read more)