Phat's Bouillabaisse: Photography In Music: Timothy Saccenti, Pt. 1

Timothy Saccenti is a photographer, director and Artist living in New York city and working worldwide. His visuals evoke tension by striking a balance between the otherworldly and the familiar while mixing in a dose of humor. Using a palette of exquisite art direction, unique use of 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”.

Timothy has become a visual voice for a generation of musical artists by creating photography and promos for Battles, Animal Collective, Jamie Lidell, Flying lotus, The School of Seven Bells, Chairlift, and Big Pink amongst others. These have earned him accolades from coveted UK quarterly Specialten, Fader, Creative Review, Videostatic, and Pitchfork Media, as well as entry into multiple festivals. In 2008 his video for Battles “Atlas” won the Plug award for music video of the yeah, was named new director of the year by Antville and Boards magazine featured him as a “director to watch”. In addition to his music promos Timothy has created commercials for clients that include Audi, Nike, and Nikon and Sony.Timothy's first solo art show “The Garden of Unearthly Delights” has taken place at the Diesel Gallery in Tokyo in 2009, about which the Japan times has said Timothy “charts a classic quest for life's meaning within a sci-fi context.”-Japan Times