About the intimate and being an author
I experienced many stages in my career.
They were made with fear, anxiety, excitement, frustration, crisis, will of burning everything, happiness…
I always try to keep a line, my personal line. Despite this, it is not easy. By being a professional photographer… the point is that I need to make money with my activity. And to make this comprimises are always waiting around the corner… but I always try to live my life as a piece of art…making art…breathing art.
To be not just a photographer but an author.
I am a writer. I teach photography…or better say…I share my experience with others trying to be a facilitator. I need to be honest, first of all with myself.
So I chosen a more difficult path. And that is to be an author and not just a photographer working on assignment. So, even when I am hired for a work, I make it always putting my personal way. It is risky. But it makes me feel better with myself. This way I don’t get bored. Indeed I enjoy all the assignments see me committed for a client.
I repeat: it is not easy. Because when there is the personal filter it is not just responding to the others, it is before to respond to myself and this can make everyting more complex.
All this mental process lead me to a particular workflow where experimentation is included, even during the assignment.
I said you: it is risky. My clients, often, ignore this. Or, maybe, some art directors are crazy like me.
But this way I can see my works are honest, sincere and unique. I don’t give them a standardized product but a dedicated one.
I hope what I written here has a sense.
The meaning in all this is that: to be honest is not taking the easy way, but it is better.