There comes a time when we feel the need to slow down, to understand, and to focus once again on what truly matters. It happens in everyday life and in our professional lives, too. Then one morning, you wake up and decide that time is now.
So you pick up the phone and begin to change your life.
That time had come. I just had to begin to accept it.
It’s been sooo good to see you again Milano!
I would just choose again the same story, the same steps in this world to end up here, right here.
do you really know what’s a Super 8 is all about? Fun, so much fun!!!
This is what I do for a living and I kinda love it. No stress coming from people telling you how to shoot and how to take pictures. Total freedom to shoot the way you feel it. It changed my life but mostly my career.
Fashion Photography is a very hard job and it has nothing to do with AI.
I’m right there… where I always wanted to be
we start with an idea, then a sketch and a final preview. how cool is that???
after so many years traveling after watching so many sunrises… this is something that is still enchanting me. again and again
taking a pic of my daughter while she’s taking pics of her horses…
No matter what… Always be prepared in this life to have a choice. Call it plan A and plan B or whatever but make sure anytime you can switch between one and another. And make sure the Plan B is worth exactly like the Plan A.
I’ve never been good to be consistent in my life. That made my life exciting day by day. Every time I woke up in the last 40 years I had something in my head pushing me forward. Photography and all about its artistic meaning took my life like a passion that soon became my obsession. Sometimes I look back and I see all the changes I made in my life, so many times I decided to change the road… I’ve never been good with people telling me how to take pictures or how to develop photography. That means cutting any chance to work with magazines, art directors and so on. That means developing some kind of obsession that during the journey becomes part of yourself. And at my age, today, I only shoot what I really like and when I really want. So, this was just the right time to make that change.
No matter where you are. Wherever in Italy you can find always places like this one. It’s like a jump in the past, in what is called History.
Some days the best company you can get is all in your own shadow. And I’m so much ok with that that it scares me a little bit.
This is what photography is all about. Endless creativity. And mostly in a world full of AI that is doing the job for us, that is telling us how to shoot, how to edit and how to print… what’s left, then?
The point is that AI must be considered like a tool, not like the creative. We should accept AI in our creative process to get the art done in the way we want to and not letting AI to be the creative.
We have to understand the importance of being creatively independent from AI. Otherwise in a few years we could invert the process and let AI kill the creativity instead of helping to develop new forms of art.
That feeling just drive me crazy. The chance you have visiting Venice and getting back all those emotions from your stay, it’s unique. There’s no other place in this world and that’s because there’s no other city in this world that could be compared to Venice.
Just another Ordinary day
to the young generations asking me how did I choose to be a photographer?
What’s the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning? What’s the last one when you go to sleep? Well, I made my life out of it. I made up my career. And let me tell you I’m still like that after sooooo many years. BUT… there’s always a But…
What I left behind is not making me any proud: family, relationships, friends… you are never prepared to leave the people you love behind and when you realize that it’s too late, you are gone too far and there’s no way you can bring the time back.
That said, when you make this choice always make sure you are ready to accept all the circumstances and the consequences.
Please, don’t take it the wrong way. I don’t really give a f..k about social networks, about comments or even likes. I’m from another time guys. The time we used to shoot films in Miami Beach to send in NYC within the same day while drinking a beer in front of the ocean. That was the way I learned to share photography and that is the only way I know. I did it with Lindbergh, Avedon and Ritts because I was in my 20s and it was just a privilege to be there with those icons. So, if we talk about likes or comments on social media, you can really get how I care less than nothing. That is not real life to my eyes.
I love to keep it this way, even if my agent ask me to be on social media, and I understand the reason why everybody love it. I don’t. I understand to share something, sometimes, but not waiting for someone else to tell me good or bad. Because as I always say, creativity has nothing to do with good or bad, with right or wrong. Thank you
my daughter Chloe dealing with the make up
Again you Turin!!!☺️
And they are starting to test some of the images with the InPrnt platform. I’m not a social person and I’m not good with the social networks, but you guys pushed me to keep posting on this blog, because every day you are so many coming back. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
What can I ask for more? I mean I’m back where I really feel home. Now it’s time to work like never before.
it’s time for me to go back where I belong. 5:00AM it’s Showtime
There was a time when blogging was a daily process to better connect with the audience. Then the social era entered in our lives and everybody must be more immediate and fast compared to what was in the past. Well, so many of you keep asking about new post on my website like I used to do in the last 25 years, but really it takes time, that I don’t have anymore.
I mean, I will post again, not on a daily basic, but I will, as I always did. With the social media I tried to be like any other and post regularly, but I can’t do it. That’s why my agent is hiring a girl that will take care of all the social media platforms.
I know, I’m old and when I’m off, I wanna spend my time doing what I love enjoying the time with my daughter and not posting on social media. I feel like I don’t really need it in my life even if I respect and I understand the people which are making a living out of it. It’s just the time passing by and every era has its own scenario.
Well, I keep living in the one I know better and I love even if it’s considered the old one. I will post one social media together with the new social media manager but she will take care of any other aspect about that. Thanks
