Issue28 (part2) October 2017

Studio, on location or both? I’d say both! As always… depend on the idea! Even if sometimes I prefer to work
outside. Maybe because I come from reportage, so I feel more comfortable in open space, with natural lights…
or better with that “cloudy-soft- lights” before the rain! For me is the best one!!!!
Would you consider yourself a professional? I’ve been a professional photographer for 16-17 years.
What has been your most memorable session and why? OH! Hard question! I don’t know… I mean, often
behind a picture, there is a story…! For example has been so funny what happened while I was taking the
picture of the model with the long black skirt on the stairs. It was December and we were in Milan at 2pm
o’clock. At the end of via Montenapoleone, close to Armani Hotel, there is a little square with this monument
made like a huge stairs that I chose as location.
We started to work, the model was posing, I was concentrate to shot
and suddenly I saw the model through the camera start to laugh… I
stopped and when I turn behind I saw more than 100 people with
cameras, mobile phone and I don’t know what else… taking videos and
pictures of her!
There were a couple of policemen that were taking pictures too! By the
way we go on to work and after 10 min, when we finished, people
started to clap and some of them asked also a picture with the model
and my autograph… Was very funny! We laughed so much!
What has been the biggest source of inspiration in your work? Well,
probably Peter Lindberg, but in somehow all the neo-realistic photographers!
For example I really love Ferdinando Scianna and how he
show us Sicily. People, places… every picture is a story! He has been
able to give not only an interpretation of the life of this land but above
all an aesthetics and an iconography!
What is one piece of advice you would like to offer a new
photographer looking to start their own business? Mmmm… what
could I say… are you sure??? Ok, I’m joking! Well I think that you don’t
choose this profession, you must feel for real that is what you want to
do… or better to be! Is one of the best profession in the world, but is
also one of the hardest. You have to be prepared to do a lot of sacrifices,
to receive a lot of doors closed, to change your mind and put all
your work in discussion for improving and never give up to study. You
should defend your ideas and work but you should be able to listen
people that give you the right advices.
Don’t do it just for money… even because, nowadays, is not so easy
earn “big money” from this career, but do it for yourself! Because after
all the struggling’s, after all the fights, after all the problems… if you
keep hard… you will see realized your ideas! And for me this is the best
gratification.
MODEL: OLGA-MARIA VEIDE
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