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Q1 Please introduce yourself.
I was born in Milan in 1978. While in high school, I worked with a famous photo reporter. That experience consisted of six years of photography and dark room work, an overall hard and demanding school of photographic technique, development and printing, mainly of black and white images. |
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After high school I studied at the faculty of Economic and Social Disciplines, while continuing my activity as a photographer in cooperation with many different magazines edited by major publishing houses. I left university and decided to devote myself entirely to photography, and have been specializing in fashion, advertising and portraits.
Q2 Could you tell us your career as an photographer? How did you start?
I was been photographer since I was 14 years old when I began to work with a reportage photographer workin' in dark-room.
I think that the dark-room is the best school for a photographer. You can learn the differecence between lights and shadows and your increase the sensibility to the images. I also think that the digital era is very interesting, I work a lot with digital camera and if I found time I made post production by myself. I think that the retouching is a very important part of the picture. You have to have taste or the computer is very dangerous. |
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Q8 Who is the most inspiring photographer or artist these days in your opinion?
I think Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, Mert&Marcus, David Sims, Michael Thompson, Lindbergh, and many others
Q9 Are there any people who inspired you? Who do you respect?
I love fashion photography when become art (Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh and many other), reportage and nature photography (I love the last work of Sebastiao Salgado about nature). I was inspired also by Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Coppola in the movie scene, and a lot of painter (for example I love the lights of Caravaggio).
Q10 What is your vision in the future?
I love the career of Director of movie and clip. I want to try this kind of art other than photography. |
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Paolo Santambrogio was born in Milan in 1978. While in high school, he worked with a famous photo reporter. That experience consisted of six years of photography and dark room work, an overall hard and demanding school of photographic technique, development and printing, mainly of black and white images. After high school he studied at the faculty of Economic and Social
Disciplines, while continuing his activity as a photographer in cooperation with many different magazines edited by major publishing houses. He left university and decided to devote himself entirely to photography, and has been specializing
in fashion, advertising and portraits. |
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Q3 What is the concept of your work?
I do fashion photography. I love to work with women cause I think that female body is more aesthetics than male one. I work with strange pose, many time not so natural, cause I want to realize a drawing, with many elements; the model is one of these, the element that put the "expressiveness" in the picture. I think that make up and styling are the "instruments" to explode this expressiveness. I try to touch the emotional part of people, this is my target.
Q4 What photo or art means to you?
Emotions and social messages...
Q5 Do you have any favorite camera or equipment to work with?
I work with Hasselblad (H3 digital and Cm for films), Canon (1ds mark II and 5D) and for portraits with black and white films or dia and my Leica M6. |
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Q6 What do you look out for when you're shooting?
To realize a beautiful and emotional image with simplicity and instinct
Q7 When is the happiest moment as a photographer?
Be successful in to translate and express his emotions and ideas into photography |
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