那不勒斯, 義大利
面試
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—首先─您認為誰是那不勒斯, 義大利最優秀的攝影師呢? :)
—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.
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—您上相嗎?
—The only two people who said I'm beautiful are my mother and James Blunt.
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—您如何開始從事攝影行業?
—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.
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—您認為一張好照片裡最重要的元素有哪些?
—The moment between two moments.
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—您熱愛旅行嗎?
—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.
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—您最喜歡這個職業的哪個部分?
—Being surrounded by happiness and nice people. The connection. Being together. The humanity needs to stay together and talk, touch, see, hear.
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—您最不喜歡這個職業的哪個部分?
—Well I guess there's no perfect job in this world :)
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—攝影的前景如何?
—Future doesn't exist (yet).
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—您擅長的攝影類型有什麼特別之處?
—There's nothing special about wedding photography. People make it special.
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—您如何應對批評?
—I take everything I can to improve my skills.
Sometimes I kidnap children and burn cars.
(Should I say I'm being ironic?) -
—攝影有什麼潮流?
—It's a complicated business, growing year by year, changing forms constantly.
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—客戶選擇攝影師的標準有哪些?
—Being emotionally involved in his/her pictures. Nothing else.
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—拍攝時應該避免哪些事項?
—Being a jerk, I think.
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—通常不會被注意,但攝影師卻能留意的細節有哪些呢?
—An apparently meaningless moment can be captured forever with one click and being remembered for the rest of the life.
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—什麼事物會影響照片的價值?它包含了哪些因素?
—It's all about what people feel when they see that picture.
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—您認為哪個人可以被視為21世紀的代表人物?
—Not me for sure, I'm still working on it...
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—您想拍誰?
—Myself.
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—您有任何職業禁忌嗎?
—I don't touch wedding dresses.
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—您想和誰一起拍攝?
—Whoever wants to :)
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—您會擔心什麼?為什麼?
—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.
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—您人生中印象最深刻的一刻是什麼?
—When I lose everything and I started to know myself.
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—如果您是個卡通、小說或電影角色,您想成為誰?為什麼?
—The little Prince, of course!
Living on an asteroid, in the outer space, watching stars all the time, dreaming, being free... -
—誰能在生命中激發您的靈感?為什麼?
—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".
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—您如何定義成功?您會怎麼衡量它?
—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.
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—您是希望被喜愛或是被景仰呢?
—Read the previous one :)
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—您在工作上犯過最大的錯誤是什麼?
—Being naive.
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—當您要去旅行時,您會帶什麼?為什麼?
—A book, my compact camera and my diary for sure.
Just because I need to have time for myself. -
—在您擁有的物品中,有任何您希望沒買過的嗎?為什麼?
—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.
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—您如何學習拍出更好的照片呢?
—I go to seminars, I participate to conventions and other workshops, I watch movies and tv series, I read, I experience life.
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—身為攝影師,誰的作品對您影響最大?
—My favorite wedding photographer right now is Giuseppe Marano, from Sicily.
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—哪件事是您希望從開始拍照時就知道的?
—"Cameras are expensive."
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—您想用自己的照片說些什麼?
—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.
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—讓您持續拍照的動力是什麼?
—I'm curious.
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—您的雙親應該更加或是更不嚴厲呢?
—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. -
—如果能回到過去,您會有什麼不同舉動呢?
—I wouldn't change anything.
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—您對在其他星球上的生命有什麼看法呢?
—I don't know what to think about the life on THIS planet.
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—誰是您的英雄?
—My father is my hero.
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—您不重視誰?
—False people above all.
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—您空閒時會做些什麼?
—Reading, writing, having good time with my friends.
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—您的哪一面是公眾不曾看到過的?
—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.
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—您什麼時候會對自己的作品完全滿意?
—When I know I could stop time at least in one picture.
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—您認可男女性的傳統角色嗎?
—Roles? Where we are going we don't need... roles!
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—您容易交到朋友嗎?
—It depends, sometimes I'm very quick to empathize with people, other times it can take even years.
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—您希望在哪裡生活?
—Wherever there's beauty around me.
But if I have to pick one, Amsterdam would be a choise. -
—人生中最棒的事是:
—Keep dreaming.
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—人生中最煩人的事是:
—Stop dreaming.
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—您的周圍有任何您想改變的事情嗎?
—My room is painted in a very ugly green.
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—您希望改變自己的哪一點?
—Sometimes I use irony to avoid questions.
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—您希望改變世界的哪些方面?
—I would erase every kind of racism.
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—您能為新進攝影師提供一些建議嗎?
—Get paid!
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—如果外星人來到地球,而您是他們第一個遇見的人,您會跟他們說什麼?
—"hello!"
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—如果您被邀請去拍攝電影,那會是什麼類型的電影呢?
—sci-fi or thriller, or drama.
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—明天我會去做...
—...a wedding!