About fotografia : arte : moda : Alessandro Lanari
I was born in 1964 in an industrial town in Tuscany. There was this reddish iron powder everywhere, in the air, on the streets, on the buildings. But then there was the sea, cristal clean, blue and deep, and an archipelagus of islands with evocative names.. Montecristo.. Capraia.. Giglio..
So these were the colours I grew in.
My father was a good photographer, and my grandfather too. So when at 6 I got my first 'real' camera, a Kodak Instamatic, I felt like I was supposed to carry on our family traditions. After the secondary school I would have liked to follow a photography course and start to work. But there were not many such courses in Italy in the 80s so I thought I would have followed my second big interest and started my computer science career. Then, one day, I looked at my life and realized it was wrong. So I decided to start the life I should have started 15 years before. In my 'second life' as a pro photographer I graduated with maximum marks in a 3 years master school in Rome and I worked as a freelance photographer. Meanwhile I followed my personal art projects.
What still amazes me when I think about photography, is the deepness of the meanings that every photo carries within. After all, a photography is in theory nothing more than a delimited part of space representing the surface of some objects as lighted by some light source. But look at some photos and you'll see how this definition gets blown up by the power of the photographic medium. This is what every photographer should think about, if he wants to become a good photographer. Think about what you are doing. Not just -how- you are going to shoot a photo, but -why- you are going to shoot it. If you want to shoot a subject, you need to develop an opinion about it, and that opinion will maybe become your framing. And you'll need to develop a feeling toward your subject, and that feeling will probably become your lighting. Look for your way..
So these were the colours I grew in.
My father was a good photographer, and my grandfather too. So when at 6 I got my first 'real' camera, a Kodak Instamatic, I felt like I was supposed to carry on our family traditions. After the secondary school I would have liked to follow a photography course and start to work. But there were not many such courses in Italy in the 80s so I thought I would have followed my second big interest and started my computer science career. Then, one day, I looked at my life and realized it was wrong. So I decided to start the life I should have started 15 years before. In my 'second life' as a pro photographer I graduated with maximum marks in a 3 years master school in Rome and I worked as a freelance photographer. Meanwhile I followed my personal art projects.
What still amazes me when I think about photography, is the deepness of the meanings that every photo carries within. After all, a photography is in theory nothing more than a delimited part of space representing the surface of some objects as lighted by some light source. But look at some photos and you'll see how this definition gets blown up by the power of the photographic medium. This is what every photographer should think about, if he wants to become a good photographer. Think about what you are doing. Not just -how- you are going to shoot a photo, but -why- you are going to shoot it. If you want to shoot a subject, you need to develop an opinion about it, and that opinion will maybe become your framing. And you'll need to develop a feeling toward your subject, and that feeling will probably become your lighting. Look for your way..