Comments on: Marina Rosso – The Beautiful Gene https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: Kyunghee Lee https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-415066 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:36:43 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-415066 Marina,

I love love red heads. When I was very young, I read ‘Anne of Green Gables’ of Lucy Maud Montgomery. After that I has been fascinated by red heads. Actually I tried to dye my hair red long years ago. :)

It is very nice work.
Thank you for sharing.

Kyunghee Lee

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By: Charles Peterson https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-413576 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:31:58 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-413576 Fantastic!

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By: a civilian-mass audience https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-395810 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:25:37 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-395810 MARINA,

welcome home and yes…”Redheads represent generally 1% of population.”
According to my lists and after many years of research …here, in BURNLAND, we have ALL the redheads…!!!

thank you for sharing !

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By: Carlo https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-395300 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:12:31 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-395300 Marina,

If ones work sparks curiosity and raises questions then I think you are onto something….

But more specifically I think there is pleasure in “just” shooting….no agenda…no assignment…no work….just shooting, plain and simple. Relax and go with the flow with camera or no camera in hand. I think even without the camera you still frame things and see pictures everywhere….not trying to come up with “iconic” photos…..and being serious and uptight all the time.

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By: ed brydon https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-395203 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:10:48 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-395203 Marina, this is very well done a more thought-provoking than a simple celebration of redheads as seen in Joel Meyerowitz, Howard Schatz etc’s work. You may not be a scientist but I really like how you approached this “scientifically.” The cataloging almost seems a bit sinister but draws into the very serious ideas about genetic selection and engineering.

To your point about documentary work I would say this project is a literal interpretation of the actual work. You have created documents of people with red hair, and incorporated documentation of their other features. The simplicity David mentions is key to this.

I found the work and ideas fascinating given my toddler son is a redhead, despite my wife and I both being brown-haired. My mother was a redhead, but we’ve yet to see exactly where the mutated gene comes from on my wife’s side. Ed, proud Parent of a Ginger (POAG).

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By: Marina_Rosso https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-393791 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:08:06 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-393791 Frostfrog: I didn’t know this work of Joel Meyerowitz on redheads. Thanks for sharing it!

David Alan Harvey: Hope to meet you soon or later. I was reading again the first comment you made, and
I’ve realized I’ve missed this sentence of yours, really interesting to discuss: “The simplicity and lack of emotion in Marina’s work takes it definitely into the art world rather than the photojournalism world. Yet it is documentary at the end”.
I have to admit this was one of my intentions. I wanted to talk on a journalistic fact by using an aesthetic which usually it’s not related to documentation. It seems that documentary photography finds to often a unique codified language of aesthetics to tell its stories. I often ask myself: Is it the best way for it? Aren’t there any others possibilities? How can we change this situation? Is it correct to change it? Are media pushing this kind of aesthetics? And photo agencies? Why the photography field is so codified into sections? Personally, I still don’t know all the answers but of course, in my future works, I’ll try as much as possible to push this aesthetic boundaries.

Carlo: shouldn’t it be always like that?

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By: Carlo https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-393341 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:39:47 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-393341 http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/redhead-photo-sperm-bank-invitro/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

“I’m not a scientist,” she said, only a photographer. “Pictures should give people the possibility to think about things that they wouldn’t usually.”

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-392979 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:33:14 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-392979 David, I’ve always been smitten with red-heads and eventually married one.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203595092265118&set=a.1832756345894.105201.1449976869&type=1&theater

She appears almost daily on my facebook page.

I found Meyerowitz’s book in soft cover on Amazon a couple of years ago, it’s great fun, though sadly not well reproduced.

Thanks for these Marina.

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-392859 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:26:46 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-392859 In reply to Marina_Rosso.

MARINA

1% of the world population? wow. that seems high….I would never have guessed that ….In any case, thank for this fine work…..I look forward to seeing the book……..

cheers, david

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-391049 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:38:22 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-391049 My high school/early college love was a redhead. So beautiful she was – and smart, too.

Sigh….

I have seen a few other red head series, including the Joel Meyerowitz work (30 years ago? Really? That long so quickly?) but none of these included the kind of information about the banning of red-headed sperm donors and the threat of redheads disappearing, so Marina’s project has taken on new import for me.

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By: Marina_Rosso https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-390928 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:11:59 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-390928 hharry: thanks a lot!

david alan harvey: Hi David! thanks for sharing these considerations! Redheads represent generally 1% of population. There are some zones where you can find them more, such as Scotland where the percentage raises up to 13%. Even though the gene is recessive, unlikely it will disappear. Cheers, Marina

patricio m.: Last year I travelled all around Europe attending all the redheads conventions. I did many photos in Holland. My goal was to finish the project finding, and then shooting, 48 different typologies of people according to the matrix I’ve invented. So, I won’t do any more portraits of redheads! :)

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By: pAtrIcIO m. https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-390794 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:52:24 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-390794 @ MARINA, I’m sure that you already know, there is a festival in Holland at the end of summer

http://www.roodharigen.nl/

maybe you could also dig there and going on with this kind of series.
Ci vediamo. P.

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-390423 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:11:11 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-390423 I am fascinated by red hair (or, in my case any hair!!)….Redheads stand out….The one fact missing in this text, is how many redheads there are in the world…I am really curious….There cannot be very many. Also very curious about, will redheads totally disappear in the next hundred years or so?

Joel Meyerowitz did a book REDHEADS about 30 years ago. See if you can dig it up. He did portraits as well yet a bit less clinical so to speak than has Marina. He used their environment a bit.

The simplicity and lack of emotion in Marina’s work takes it definitely into the art world rather than the photojournalism world. Yet it is documentary at the end.

We never tire of looking at faces. We are obsessed with looking at faces. Add some red hair and the beat goes on…

Cheers, David

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By: hharry https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/06/marina-rosso-the-beautiful-gene/#comment-388806 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:49:01 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=22900#comment-388806 Love the idea and the execution

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