Fotógrafo Luigi Reccia

—En primer lugar, ¿quién puede llamar el mejor fotógrafo en Nápoles, Italia? :)

—I don't think I have the answer to this question. Every photographer has a different point of view, the beauty of this world is that you can learn something from everyone.

—¿Es usted fotogénico(a)?

—The only two people who said I'm beautiful are my mother and James Blunt.

—¿Cómo empezó a trabajar en la industria de fotografía?

—I started shooting pictures in 2009, I've been involved in music production for years and then in 2012 I started shooting weddings. I started as a second shooter for a friend and then little by little I built my own business.

—¿En su opinión, cuáles son los elementos más importantes de una buena fotografía?

—The moment between two moments.

—¿Le gusta viajar?

—I travel a lot, from the moment I wake up in the morning until I go to bed, every day. It doesn't matter if I use my car, a train, a plane or my mind. It's a lifetime trip.

—¿Qué le gusta más de su profesión?

—Being surrounded by happiness and nice people. The connection. Being together. The humanity needs to stay together and talk, touch, see, hear.

—¿Qué le gusta menos de su profesión?

—Well I guess there's no perfect job in this world :)

—¿Cuál será el futuro de la fotografía?

—Future doesn't exist (yet).

—¿Qué tiene de especial el género fotográfico en que trabaja?

—There's nothing special about wedding photography. People make it special.

—¿Cómo gestiona las críticas?

—I take everything I can to improve my skills.
Sometimes I kidnap children and burn cars.
(Should I say I'm being ironic?)

—¿Existe alguna tendencia en la fotografía?

—It's a complicated business, growing year by year, changing forms constantly.

—¿Qué criterios debería tener en cuenta una persona a la hora de elegir a un fotógrafo?

—Being emotionally involved in his/her pictures. Nothing else.

—¿Qué no está permitido de ningún modo cuando realiza una fotografía?

—Being a jerk, I think.

—¿Qué detalles que normalmente no tenemos en cuenta puede un fotógrafo captar?

—An apparently meaningless moment can be captured forever with one click and being remembered for the rest of the life.

—¿Qué influye en el valor de una fotografía? ¿Cuáles son sus elementos?

—It's all about what people feel when they see that picture.

—En su opinión, ¿qué persona podría ser un símbolo del siglo XXI?

—Not me for sure, I'm still working on it...

—¿A quién le gustaría fotografiar?

—Myself.

—¿Tiene tabúes profesionales?

—I don't touch wedding dresses.

—¿Con quién le gustaría fotografiarse?

—Whoever wants to :)

—¿Qué le preocupa y por qué?

—I'm a restless mind. There's no reason for it and it took me years to understand it. I accepted it and I don't know why I'm like this. I'm worried about a lot of things every day, personal and in general about our future as human beings.

—¿Cuál ha sido el momento más impactante de su vida?

—When I lose everything and I started to know myself.

—Si fuera un personaje de animación, literario o cinematográfico, ¿quién le gustaría ser y por qué?

—The little Prince, of course!
Living on an asteroid, in the outer space, watching stars all the time, dreaming, being free...

—¿Quién le inspira en su vida y por qué?

—I have my grandfather's name. He has been the most influential person in my life. If I could have a time machine, I would like to go back when he was still on this earth and say him "look what I've become".

—¿Cómo definiría el éxito? ¿Cómo lo mide?

—Being a successful person is useless if you don't have respect for yourself and other people. So I can say that the successful person is the one who is also respectful and respected.

—¿Qué prefiere, gustar o sentirse respetado?

—Read the previous one :)

—¿Cuál es el mayor error que ha cometido en su trabajo?

—Being naive.

—Cuando va de viaje, ¿qué lleva consigo y por qué?

—A book, my compact camera and my diary for sure.
Just because I need to have time for myself.

—¿Se arrepiente de alguno de los gadgets que ha comprado? ¿Por qué?

—I'm a left-handed person and I bought this rechargeable pen from moleskine, which is beautiful but it's a gel ink pen so everytime I write I get my diary, my hand and sometimes my clothes dirty.

—¿Cómo se forma para tomar las mejores imágenes?

—I go to seminars, I participate to conventions and other workshops, I watch movies and tv series, I read, I experience life.

—¿A quién pertenece el trabajo que le ha influenciado más como fotógrafo?

—My favorite wedding photographer right now is Giuseppe Marano, from Sicily.

—¿Cuál es la única cosa que desearía haber sabido cuando comenzó a tomar fotografías?

—"Cameras are expensive."

—¿Qué desea decir con sus fotografías?

—I just want to tell a story in my way. I know pictures tell at the same time what we see and what we have inside. With my pictures I hope to know myself better than now.

—¿Qué le motiva a continuar tomando imágenes?

—I'm curious.

—¿Cree que sus padres deberían haber sido más o menos estrictos?

—My parents are not perfect, their love made me the person I am just as their mistakes.
Oh, and they are rock 'n' roll too.

—¿Si pudiera volver atrás en el tiempo, qué haría de forma diferente?

—I wouldn't change anything.

—¿Qué piensa de la vida en otros planetas?

—I don't know what to think about the life on THIS planet.

—¿Quiénes son sus héroes?

—My father is my hero.

—¿Por quién no siente respeto?

—False people above all.

—¿Qué hace en su tiempo libre?

—Reading, writing, having good time with my friends.

—¿Cuál es su lado desconocido que la gente nunca quiere ver?

—I am constantly divided in two different and opposite ways: if people see me happy, they don't see I could be sad, if they see me talking a lot, they don't know I would be silent instead.

—¿Está complemente satisfecho de su trabajo?

—When I know I could stop time at least in one picture.

—¿Cree en los roles tradicionales de hombres y mujeres?

—Roles? Where we are going we don't need... roles!

—¿Hace amigos con facilidad?

—It depends, sometimes I'm very quick to empathize with people, other times it can take even years.

—¿Dónde le gustaría vivir?

—Wherever there's beauty around me.
But if I have to pick one, Amsterdam would be a choise.

—Lo mejor de su vida es:

—Keep dreaming.

—Lo más molesto de su vida es:

—Stop dreaming.

—¿Hay algo a su alrededor que le gustaría cambiar?

—My room is painted in a very ugly green.

—¿Qué le gustaría cambiar de usted mismo?

—Sometimes I use irony to avoid questions.

—¿Qué le gustaría cambiar del mundo?

—I would erase every kind of racism.

—¿Podría ofrecer algunos consejos a los fotógrafos que empiezan?

—Get paid!

—Si los extraterrestres llegaran a la Tierra y fuera la primera persona que encontraran, ¿qué les diría?

—"hello!"

—Si le llamaran como fotógrafo de una película, ¿a qué género pertenecería?

—sci-fi or thriller, or drama.

—Mañana voy a hacer...

—...a wedding!