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Ciaroscuro is probably the only journal treating everything created, exhibited or performed by an artist or craftsperson as art. This includes all functional design forms, such as fashion, carpentry, cars and aircraft...not to mention its extraordinary travel and society sections.
Ciaroscuro naturally engages fine writing and photography with passion, and gives practitioners and their promoters the chance to say what they really want people to know. Our surefooted approach to critique offers unprecedented balance and veracity.
Ciaroscuro aims to remove the forcible turnstiles and walls between artists and audiences, between artforms and artists, without making undue concessions to populism. We expect everything, including the dynamism of the grassroots, to shine through.
Ciaroscuro hopes to win over new audiences for art, design and cultural processes at large. We respect the idiosyncrasies of modernism, and understand that a more complex language has to to be allowed to evolve to accommodate this, thus reflecting the acute intellect and unregimented nature of today's audience.
Ciaroscuro is where diversity thrives...it is cosmopolitanism itself.
BACKGROUND/HISTORY
 Founder/Editor Ciaroscuro was founded by the Ghanaian writer, artist and journalist, Ishmael Fiifi Annobil. He has lived in the Sudan and Kenya, where he wrote, co-produced and performed the acclaimed multi-media show, Criers on the Thresholds of Reality (Nairobi 1983). He came to Britain in 1983, working briefly in London as an editor, before spending 11 years in Wales, where he founded the international poetry festival, Iolo's Children and Wales' first serious arts newspaper, Circa21. He has published two collections of poetry: Seven Horn Elegy and Ethiop. His forthcoming books include Portrait of a Man in Pain (novel), Inklings of Clay (novella) and Utopia of the Worms (poetry). He loves jazz and cooking.
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 Webmaster (2004 - 2005)
Jahongir Sidikov, Uzbek IT Technician, webmaster and graduate of International Finance, joined Ciaroscuro in 2004, halfway through the planning stages, to render Ishmael's graphics to the Web. Despite his structured Web programming background, he adapted quickly to the constant flux of art design and its inherent need for spatial freedom. His sacrifices and willingness to work with an ever-evolving style helped Ishmael establish his exacting editorial base and aesthetics. Joha, as Ishmael calls him, is a lover of antiquarian traditional music, ancient Uzbek literature, chess, gadgets and Internet games. He has taken a break from Web publishing to indulge his undying passion for gourmet cookery.
IMPORTANT SPONSORS IN-KIND
Marco Ruschioni: Italian-South African genius, Marco, encountered the plans for Ciaroscuro while working with Ishmael at iVillage. He liked the project enough to programme its initial template immediately, and subsequently introduced Ishmael and the project to James Bowler of Neo-Technic, and the rest is history. He is really a founding member of the team, though not working with us right now.
James Bowler: Ardent lover of the idea of empowering small communities, IT ace James Bowler took warmly to Ciaroscuro from day one, bending his own tight schedule to nurse and manage it round the clock. He has carried out Joha's work tirelessly for free, initiating and tutoring Ishmael in the joys of Joomla content management. He also pulled our past issues into frame (one by one) and masterminded a search for better routes into the ether-world. He is a giant of a man. Long live Neo-Technic!
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