Timothy Saccenti is a photographer and director living in New York City and working worldwide. His visuals evoke tension by striking a dischord between the otherworldly and the familiar while mixing in a dose of humor. Using a palette of exquisite art direction, intense color, and palatial lighting, he paints his subjects as archetypes in their own worlds in a style described recently as “baroque futurism, with a precise-horror attitude”. As a photographer Timothy has created scores of portraits of pop musicians from Erykah Badu to LCD Soundsystem to Pharrell. He balances his pop sensibility via avant guarde print and music video collaborations with seminal experimental record labels including Warp Records and DFA. Additionally he has photographed and directed multiple commercial campaigns, including the mesmerizing and controversial “Playfaces” ps3 for Sony Playstation as well as acclaimed music promos for Battles, Animal Collective, Blond Redhead and Washed Out amongst others. In the fine art realm his solo show for the Diesel gallery in Tokyo, Japan, “The Garden” was a modern, twisted take on the creation story utilizing wall sized prints, sculpture and a short film. The Japan Times described his work as “charting a classic quest for life’s meaning within a sci-fi context”. In “Shadow Poppets” Timothy conjures darkness and light, tricks scale and proportion, and arrives at the other side of make-believe: magic ! For more information or to get in touch with Timothy just folow the link below.
