Fotógrafo Luigi Reccia

—Em primeiro lugar - quem é para si o melhor fotógrafo em Naples, Itália? :)

—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.

—Você é fotogénica(o)?

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

—Como se iniciou na indústria da fotografia?

—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.

—Em sua opinião, quais são os componentes mais importantes para uma boa fotografia?

—The moment between two moments.

—Gosta de 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.

—O que mais gosta na sua profissão?

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

—O que menos gosta na sua profissão?

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

—Qual será o futuro da fotografia?

—Future doesn't exist (yet).

—O que há de especial para si, no género de fotografia em que se especializou?

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

—Como lida com as críticas?

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

—Existem tendências na fotografia?

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

—Quais deveriam ser os critérios considerados pelo cliente na escolha de um fotógrafo?

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

—O que não é permitido de todo ao fotografar?

—Being a jerk, I think.

—Que detalhes passam habitualmente despercebidos mas nos quais um fotógrafo repara?

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

—O que influencia o valor da foto? Quais são os seus elementos?

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

—Na sua opinião, que pessoa poderá ser o símbolo do século XXI?

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

—O que pretende fotografar?

—Myself.

—Tem tabus profissionais?

—I don't touch wedding dresses.

—Com quem gostaria de fotografar?

—Whoever wants to :)

—Com que se preocupa e porquê?

—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.

—Qual foi o momento mais impressionante na sua vida?

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

—Que personagem animada, literária ou de um filme gostaria de ser? Porquê?

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

—Quem o inspira na sua vida e porquê?

—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".

—Como define o sucesso? Como o afere?

—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.

—Gostaria mais de ser amado ou respeitado?

—Read the previous one :)

—Qual foi o maior erro que já cometeu a nível profissional?

—Being naive.

—Quando vai viajar, o que leva consigo e porquê?

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

—Está arrependido de ter adquirido algum dos gadgets que possui? Porquê?

—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.

—Como aprende a tirar fotos melhores?

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

—Que trabalho mais o influenciou como fotógrafo?

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

—Qual é a coisa que mais gostaria de ter sabido quando começou a fotografar?

—"Cameras are expensive."

—O que pretende transmitir com as suas fotos?

—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.

—O que o motiva a continuar a fotografar?

—I'm curious.

—Os seus pais deveriam ter sido mais ou menos rigorosos?

—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.

—Se pudesse regredir no tempo, o que faria de diferente?

—I wouldn't change anything.

—O que pensa da vida nos outros planetas?

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

—Quem são os seus heróis?

—My father is my hero.

—A quem é que não respeita?

—False people above all.

—O que faz nos seus tempos livres?

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

—Qual é o seu lado que o público nunca vê?

—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.

—Quando é que fica completamente satisfeito com o seu trabalho?

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

—Acredita nos papéis tradicionais reservados ao homem e à mulher?

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

—Faz amigos com facilidade?

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

—Onde gostaria de viver?

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

—A melhor coisa na vida é:

—Keep dreaming.

—A coisa mais irritante na vida é:

—Stop dreaming.

—Existe algo em seu redor que gostaria de mudar?

—My room is painted in a very ugly green.

—O que gostaria de mudar em si próprio?

—Sometimes I use irony to avoid questions.

—O que gostaria de mudar no mundo?

—I would erase every kind of racism.

—Pode dar algumas dicas para fotógrafos principiantes?

—Get paid!

—Caso os alienígenas viessem para a Terra, e fosse a primeira pessoa a encontrá-los, o que lhes diria?

—"hello!"

—Se fosse chamado para fazer um filme, que género escolheria?

—sci-fi or thriller, or drama.

—Amanhã eu vou fazer...

—...a wedding!