Issue28 (part2) October 2017

Photographer
Michele Coppola (Italy)
Tell us something about yourself. I was born in 1978,
in a cold Thursday of January, in front of the Siren Gulf
close to Naples, but my family moved to Milan when I
was still a child and I grew up here.
I always loved travelling, for working or for passion and
for this I call myself “an eternal foreign in homeland”!
No place belongs to me, every place fills my heart and
my eyes and photography is a natural consequence of
my curiosity.
How and when did you get into photography? Well,
I’m not able to tell you when I decide to became a
photographer… is something that happened naturally! I
started to shot during the Accademy in Milan where I
studied theatrical direction, but at that time photography
for me was a way to takes notes, gather ideas…
after the Accademy I realized that what I was doing
with the camera was what I wanted to do! The pictures
weren’t just “notes”, they were the way in which I saw
the world and people around me. More I developed
this, more I knew myself. At the end photography for
me became a need for discovering “how deep is the
white-rabbit-burrow”. During the last year of university,
I was working in a little photographic studio, and I
got a phone call:
“Would you like to work as photo reporter in Africa for
2 years?” I said yes, and in 15 days I left my family, my
university, my house and I was at the airport of Sharm
just with my old Nikon D70. And everything started.
What does photography mean to you? It will surely
survive on me. It’s not a passion, it’s not just a job… it’s
a needs. I’m able to tell you only this. It’s the needs to
be amazed, it’s the needs to know, it’s the needs to
express myself, It’s the needs to communicate with my
own language, without words but with something that
everybody can understand and at the end, maybe,
leaving an heritage of this time.
MODEL: BEATRICE FRASSON
MODEL: HELENA NIELSEN HEISELBERG
AGENCY: LUXX MODELS
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