Issue28 (part2) October 2017

Please briefly describe your photography style for our
readers. I’m above all a black and white photographer,
even if I’m looking for “my colour” also. I could say to be a
portraitist, even if, in reality, I don’t care to give me “a
label”. All the technicals, framing – choiches, managing
model, locations, style and make up… all this things are
elements that I use to build an image. I look for a har-mony
among the body, the look and the world around. I search
all the time for poetry, sensuality and elegance.
MODEL: ELISA MARCHISONI
MAKE UP: MARA BOTTONI
MODEL: GEORGINA HOBOR
DRESS DESIGNER: JENNY MONTEIRO
MAKE UP: MARA BOTTONI
Where do you get inspiration from? There are a lot of
places where I get inspiration, more or less… everywhere!
Reading novels and poems, watching movies, looking
magazines or pictures on the books and web. I get inspiration
from my trips, looking things places and people
around me, during my long walks ( I really love walking)
and of course studying my favourite big photographer as
Lindberg, Avedon, Herb Ritts, Barbieri, Newton… I get
“input and ideas” from everywhere and I leave them
growing up inside of me… some of them disappear, others,
suddenly, became a need to be realized. So I start to
develop them. I try to transform these suggestions in a
concrete idea that belongs to me. I look for all the“things”
that I need to realize it… and then I shot. Sometimes it
works… and sometimes no! Anyway, I always leave free a
part of this creative process… because sometimes things
happen, even if you didn’t project anything, but you have
to be ready to catch them.
Think you in advance what you want in the picture? I
could say at 60%! I mean, I build the idea then I want that
the model lives inside this idea. For me is important her/
his interpretation: I give some directions, some suggestions
but I want that she/he feels part of the world that I
‘ve created. In this way I give to my self the chance to
explore the limits of the idea, if it works or not, if it miss
something or there is too much… Moreover, all the people
that work on my set are important, because through their
professionality, their sensibility this idea can grow up. I like
to talk with them and confront with their interpre-tation...
and sometimes it happen that we change a lot from the
original idea. For all this, I could say that I go on a set with
a canvas in my mind… but the picture will be built there.
Issue28 (part2) October 2017 - Modellenland Magazine