Tao Ruspoli

The Pilgrimage to the Black Rock - 21st Century, Landscape Photography

2016

Mrs. Richards Darling, 2019 (diptych) [From the series Les Foxy Femmes] 20x20cm each, 20x45cm installed, Edition of 30. Archival pigment prints, based on two original Polaroids on...

Boating II, Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2018, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an It...

At the age of eight - 2006, 40 × 120 cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Printed on Canson Baryta Prestige. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted. About myself I was...

Are you my Angel (2011)
 from the series Monuments 50 x 65 cm, Edition of 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital Photography printed on Canson Barita 310gr (not mou...

'Mad Max' (Burning Man) Edition 2/10, 20x30cm, 2016, Color-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and musician. Background He is the second son of occasional actor and aristocrat Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri by Austrian-American actress Debra Berger. Tao was born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in Rome and Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Career Moviemaker magazine singled out Ruspoli as one of the 10 Young Filmmakers To Watch in its spring 2008 issue. His feature narrative debut, Fix, was one of 10 feature films to screen in competition at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival and soon afterward at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where Ruspoli was awarded the Heineken Red Star Award for 'most innovative and progressive filmmaker.' Fix also won the Festival Award for Best Film at the 2008 Brooklyn Film Festival, Vail Film Festival and the 2008 Twin Rivers Media Festival, as well as other prizes at several international festivals. His most well-known documentary is Just Say Know, a personal discussion of his family's drug addiction. His other films include Flamenco: A Personal Journey, a feature length documentary about the flamenco way of life as it is lived by Gypsies in the south of Spain. He has directed a number of other short documentaries, including El Cable (also about Flamenco), and This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan (a portrait of the renowned logician, mathematician and concert pianist Raymond Smullyan). Tao founded LAFCO in 2000. The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, is a bohemian collective of filmmakers and musicians who work out of a converted school bus. Through LAFCO, Tao has produced several films and helped dozens of filmmakers to make their first films and discover the wonders of digital media. His producing credits include the feature film Camjackers, which he also acted in and co-edited. Camjackers won the best editing award at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Tao is an accomplished flamenco guitar player, and his first CD, FLAMENCO, was released on Mapleshade Records in 2005. He married actress Olivia Wilde in 2003. They divorced in 2011. He currently lives and works in the High Desert, California. He is the co-founder of the Bombay Beach Biennale. The Exaltation of Imagination Photographs and Musings in Defense of Burning Man by Tao Ruspoli The press around Burning Man had gotten so bad that I almost felt embarrassed to be going this year. Even Daniel Pinchbeck, famed psychonaut and burner par excellence, had written a thoughtful piece explaining why, after 15 consecutive years, he wasn’t going back this year: the festival had changed too much-the rich had taken over, it had gone from a relevant and fascinating social experiment to epitomizing the worst elements of capitalist excess. Besides, he seemed to be saying, the world is going through too many crises, both ecological and humanitarian, to justify the extravagance of an event like this. Keith Spencer...

Hamburg-Rathaus #01 - From the series Been there, done that - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival pigment print, based on an original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA S...

Black and White fine art waterscape - landscape photography. Waterfall with mountain river in forest in morning light. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 5. Signed, titled, dated...

Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 8. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...

Street Photographer Mitchell Funk shoots an upward view of an old walkup in Hell's Kitchen with golden glittering light against a hot sky. The warm colors vaguely allude to the distr...

Jean-Michel’s L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, 2021 is a contemporary experimental color photograph of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris wrapped in fabric in Paris by Christo. The art duo Chr...

Blue Lotus, 2003 is a contemporary color photograph by Japanese artist Tadayuki Naito. Naito created a series on the blue lotus, a flower of peace and hope. The artist’s desire was t...

A circle of cherry blossoms frames the two spires of the iconic San Remo. This is not a staged image. Photographer Mitchell Funk found the right location, angle, and arrangement of ...