Photographer's CV




It's possible to photograph what isn't there; 
it's just damned difficult"
W. Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum

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SL model of my first RL photocamera


 Melusina has done more than twenty personal exhibits inworld and has taken part in several collective ones; she has won some awards at inworld photo contests and her Flickr got more than 1,000,00000 views. Her photographs have been even published on inworld and web magazines like Bestyle, Retropolitan, Esselle Movie Magazine, MondiVirtuali, Photography. 
She has been trainer at Visionaire Institute, for courses about landscape and minimalist photography.


Melusina photographs are mostly landscapes and abstract shapes, minimalist style. She loves b/w, urban landscapes, architectural structures and factories. As a creator of Art Deco furniture, she loves also vintage photography, in the same style as above.

Melu on her style:
"I don't like so much talking about my photos. They are what they are. Adding words to images is a risky matter: they drive the way observers look at images. Images can talk by themselves, and observer makes they do that, according to his/her feelings.
Neither I have special things to say about style and tecnique, but the obvious ones every amateur or professional photographer can tell. I shot what I see, and I give my glance to the observer as a proposal of way of seeing things. Things suggest me something and catch my eye: I like to consider myself as a slave of my subjects. They make me fall in love with a perspective, a color, a shade, a shape. I would like observers fall in love with the images and become slaves of them as well.
Many of my photos tend towards minimalism, that's my main inclination: catching a simple detail from daily life or usual landscapes, enhancing it, making it protagonist of mostly empty scenes. This reveals its meaning or can push the observer to give it her/his own. Minimalism stresses void, space, geometries: you can be confused by that, but you can also been led to meditate about what things are when they are out of the crowd.
Some of my pictures go towards a surreal mood. It's another way to look at the world by an unusual gaze: there's no need to see winged horses or green sunsets to trespass the real: you can feel puzzled even by a line of streetlights in the mist or by a piano set on a streets crossing.
Finally, I take and edit some of my photos in a vintage mood. Second Life makes old times live again and it pushes me to enhance my passion for reflections about past and present, absences and losses, nostalgia, love or hate for the past.
Shadows, clean lines, muted colors are the tools by which I try to express all that. But the main feature of my works is the lack of human beings: usually, you can't see people in my pictures, although they are. Since a virtual world is made by its users, not only objects and buildings, but even nature, landscapes, skyes and clouds are made by them; they express people's bias and souls.
"It's possible to photograph what isn't here. It's only damned difficult" says a photographer in a W. Gibson's story. My aim is to succeed in doing it".



See also:

 Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/


Melusina kept for years its own gallery e-mage at Hotel Chelsea
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lanestris/63/132/104






 

(Introductions: here)

The Bright Side of Life
Cafè des Artistes, Paris 1900
May 2011

http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2011/06/more-past-photo-exhibits.html

Second Deco
R&D Gallery, Diotima
May 2011
http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2011/06/art-deco-photos.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157626584633807/

 Art Deco in Second Life
Museum of American Architecture and Design
June 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157626959198067/

 Past Future
Schloss Museum, 1920 Berlin
August 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157627215009666/

 Vintage Image. Details from a glamorous past
R&D Gallery, Diotima
September 2011
Central City Bank Building Seraph City
November 2011

http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2012/02/battersea-power-station-london-art-deco.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157627914543278/


 Simetrías. Un mundo de formas regulares
Galeria Lez Spain
February 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157629582395525/

 Photo Anthology
Galeria de la Morada de la Campanilla
May 2012
http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2012/06/latest-photo-exhibits-and-more.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157630313582618/


 Tales of Shadow and Light
R&D Gallery, Diotima
June 2012

http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157630554244500/

 Solitudes
Serena Center for Artist and the Art
September 2012
http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2012/09/solitudes-photo-exhibit.html 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157630677572512/

 Clockwork Landscapes
e.mage Gallery, Hotel Chelsea
October 2012

 Found in the Attic
The Vintage Vision Gallery, New Toulouse
December 2012
(in beloved memory of +Adele Kling)

 Art Deco
Art India Gallery
February 2013

http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2013/02/a-dream-made-real-my-art-deco-exhibition.html

video by Wizardoz Chrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5dZ3e4IFAw


 Urban Landscapes
Anita's Artspace, Dryland
March 2013


http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2013/03/urban-landscapes-at-dryland-my-latest.html


 Visioni. Foto, oggetti e costruzioni fra passato e presente
Ars Exhibendi, MBI
April  2013


http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2013/04/a-new-exhibition-visioni-ars-exhibendi.html

video by Wizardoz Chrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0D-7viubfg


 Stripes
e-mage Gallery, Hotel Chelsea
May 2013

 Pixel Factories
Dizzy Art Gallery, Dizzyland
June 2013


http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2013/06/my-new-photo-exhibit-pixel-factories.html

Video by Wizardoz Chrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Yk25BHtd4

Exhibit Slideshow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXK4HJTsZGE
 
Flapperettes
Vintage Visions Gallery
July 2013
(in beloved memory of +Adele Kling)

 Selected photos
The Rose Theatre and Art Gallery
July 2013

 Hidden geometries
Tanalois Gallery
September 2013

 City details
ImagineNation Gallery
January 2014

 City's two faces / Las dos caras de la ciudad
LezSpain Gallery
January 2014

 Homage to Mary Wickentower's Cinema!
LEA 6
March 2014

 A Taste of Minimal
Art4You Gallery, Viriditas
April 2014

 American Signs
The Rose Theatre and Art Gallery
April 2014


http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2014/04/my-new-exhibit-at-rose-theatre-and-art.html

 Themes
Red Line Art Space at The Nite's Place
May 2014

 Closer Looks
Sociedad de los Poetas Dementes, Yo Mexico
July 2014

http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2014/07/closer-looks-photo-exhibit-at-yo-mexico.html


 Stories of Lands and Skies
e-mage Gallery, Hotel Chelsea
August 2014

 Wrong Pics
e-mage Gallery, Hotel Chelsea
December 2014

 A World of Details
DelMonico's Artspace, Time Portal
April 2017

Americana
The Last Forever
April 2017

 Outskirts
R&D Gallery, Diotima
June 2017

 Art at the Park Event
Hollie Kay Park
July 2017

 Absences
Nitroglobus Roof Gallery
July 2017

 Mysteries
Nitroglobus Roof Gallery
November 2017

 Steampunk
Galeries des Machines
December 2017

 Less is More
DixMix Gallery
February 2018

 Empty Spaces
DixMix Gallery
February 2019

 Lonely Gazes
Ribong Gallery
August 2019
https://modemworld.me/tag/melusina-parkin/

Night Walks
Nitroglobus Roof Gallery
September 2019
https://modemworld.me/2019/09/10/crossing-over-and-night-walks-in-second-life/
 
Cars 
Melusina Photo Gallery - Time Portal
November 2019

Almost alive
l'Azile Art gallery
December 2019

Imitations
Melusina Photo Gallery - Time Portal
December 2019

Out/Indoor
Phoenix Artists Collaboration
January 2020

Journeys
Sisi Biedermann Gallery&Garden
February 2020

Furillen Impressions
Furillen
February 2020 

Film Noir
Melusina Photo Gallery -.Time Portal 
February 2020

Listening to the Silence
Kultivate Signature Gallery
March 2020
b. Collective:

 Passages
Galerie des Machines, Paris 1900
February 2011

http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2011/06/more-past-photo-exhibits.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157626959162833/

 Paris Impressions
Cafè des Artistes, Paris 1900
February 2011

 Selected photos
Musee de la Duchée de Coeur
2011

 Selected photos
Artist for SL
2012

 Selected photos
Studio V Gallery
2012

 Selected photo
Ashraya Project Art Expo
2012

 Memoires
Galerie des Machines, Paris 1900
May 2012


http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2012/06/latest-photo-exhibits-and-more.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/7454526522/in/set-72157630313577478/

 Ashraya Project Photo Exhibit
Ashraya Project SIM
May 2012


http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157630313541870/

 Big Wave Rodeo. Cowboys and Surfers
Ars Lunga
June 2012


http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2012/06/latest-photo-exhibits-and-more.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157630313541870/

 Minimalia
Gallery 17, Hotel Chelsea
October 2012

 The Weaver Project
Anita's Artspace
October 2012

 Bohemian Art Exhibit
Gallery 23, Hotel Chelsea
November 2012

 Opera
Galerie des Machines, Paris Couture
December 2012

 Dryland impressions
Anita's Art Space, Dryland
December 2012

 Selected photos
Mayotte Arte Gallery
2013

 Selected photos
Art in the Park, New Toulouse Founders' Week
February 2013

 Selected photos
Atelier Kreslo
March 2013

 Selected photos
Campus d'Art
June 2013
in beloved memory of +Cecilia Delacroix

Can you hear the sounds/noise?
Blue Moon Gallery
July 2013

 Alternate Environments
Gaia Project, LEA 13
October 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWlk6DVACOk

 War Childs Charity
Blue Moon Gallery

 Other Hidden Geometries
Lefevre Mansion
March 2014

 Bohemian Art
Gallery 23, Hotel Chelsea
March 2014

 Selected photos
Wanderlust Art Park
2017

 Bay City Tree Lighting
Bay City
2017

 Minimal SL
Orion Tales 10 Years, LEA 8
May 2017

 Feet and Legs
Imago Art Gallery
November 2017

 Bicycles
DixMix Gallery
2018

 Remembering Blue
Glinka Gallery
October 2019

 Italian Vibes
Vibes Gallery
July 2019


You Tube slideshows:

 MEB Winter 2011 Collection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCigU9698cY

 A vintage trip to Britannia Isle Beach 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49yb3LkgouU

Donna Flora: A Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdPchw4of3I

Hidden Geometries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIAQdsCGFc

Urban Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCiu6wuEeT4

Pixel Factories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXK4HJTsZGE

American Signs
http://youtu.be/vZZz_idXdfw

Minimal Extreme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wpUd3LK5Rs



Other exhibited works:

1930 French ClockClock Museum, permanent
Art Deco Exhibit at Campus d'Art


London Battersea Power Station Model
http://justmelusina.blogspot.it/2012/02/battersea-power-station-london-art-deco.html
Virtual Museum of Architecture, May 2012
Exhibit Visioni, May 2013
Exhibit Pixel Factories, June 2013


Magazines covers and ads:
For MEB Fashion, Melu Deco or others, she made covers and ads on Scrulptz, Retropolitan, Bestyle, Modavia Fashion Directory, Berlin Styl, The Primgraph, Esselle Movie Magazine


Awards:
  • Best voted at VMA Art Deco Clock Contest, Virtual Museum of Architecture, 2011
 


  • 1st prize at Flapperettes Contest
 
  • Finalist at Galerie der Sinne contest "Beach and Coast Impressions", July 2014


Photos on magazines


  • Esselle Movie Magazine, no.18, Oct. 2010
    Cover story by Laura18 Streeter, photo on cover by Melu
 



































  • Photography, October 2014, from page 332
    http://issuu.com/slphotography/docs/october_2014http://issuu.com/slphotography/docs/october_2014


    3 comments:

    1. Laura18 StreeterJune 17, 2015 at 10:00 AM

      I think you forgot one EsseElle #18 magazine article cover story :P

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    2. MeluJune 17, 2015 at 2:01 PM

      Fixed! Thank you, Laura! :)

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    3. Robert WhatJanuary 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM

      Dear Melusina Parkin

      Hello. I'm a UK based philosopher and artist, dropping by to say your virtual photography is excellent. You have an amazing eye for composition, style and timeless mystery.

      I've an screenshot exhibit of my own on itch.io that you might find interesting:

      https://robert-what.itch.io/alternative-videogame-screenshot-art-exhibit

      I hope we can collaborate one day. I'd love to interview you about your unique digital tourism and exploration.

      Sincerely, Robert What

      https://www.republicofbob.net/

      ReplyDelete

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