Hello and welcome to Fabio Photographic Blog. First of all presented.
My name is Fabio Astone, I am 27 years old, born in Sardinia, but I lived in Rome and London for a month and live in Milan. I studied at Rome Film History and Criticism. After graduation I went to live in England. Important experience in my life. I held various jobs and I was able to do as an assistant for a photographer.
What brought you to live in places so different?
The desire to change, to new places, different people. Each site and send me something. I'm the guy with the suitcase, always on the go. And everywhere you need to grow in the field of photography.
How did your passion for photography?
I've always loved the cinema. And photography and cinema are linked. Photography would not exist without the cinema. Seeing the film I have kept everything under the appearance of the shots, lights and colors. Getting to photography, first studying the photographers and then put to the test, it was a natural consequence. All my pictures are inspired by the film, a story to tell.
I am very interested your link with the cinema: how do you like to explain your "stories"?
from films seen by stories heard and imagined, of the colors I want to express. There are photographs that need to arrive for a recount and others who come because you were there at that precise moment, and feel that the time is right. I am inspired by the film degi '70s, the French New Wave, to movies shot on Super 8, toned and burned. Colors and lights are researching and trying to achieve.
Why did you choose to make up precisely the kind of cinema?
because that's what I like best, I feel closer to me, and send me something.
You use a lot of the models, how to manage your relationship with them during shooting?
start photographing just friends, the people with whom I have lived in different town, my sister. For the first time in London, however, I photographed a guy who had never seen before. And from there began a new path. Photographing strangers. It 's very difficult. Taking pictures is like entering someone's intimacy, so if the person does not know is really hard. After London I worked with a fashion agency in Rome, and even there I was confronted with a way to work than my usual. Even then I had people in front of me never seen before. When someone in front of me I try to do it to relax, to make him feel at ease. Before you snap some photos "at random", then comes the moment when I decide or you decide the location, profile, how to position the body. It 'important that the person is relaxed before the camera. Then everything becomes natual and fun. But getting started is always difficult. It takes the right enthusiasm on both sides.
You said that you collaborated with a fashion agency ... how was the transition from picture "for you" work for others?
by chance. Dating lucky. And so I found myself taking pictures of models. When you work for others you feel, for better or for worse, longer bound by constraints and restrictions. You must satisfy yourself but also who has commissioned work. It 's definitely more difficult. There is always the other person and your expectations. Now I try to extricate from fashion magazines and photographs for me, "as you call them correctly. Working for someone else, have rules, and certainly serves to improve and learn to work together when dealing with so many compromises and difficulties. But the beauty is in that. Challenges every day.
So fashion photography is your ideal size, or have any other projects?
Like, I would like to continue working in the fashion, but I can think of two photographic exhibitions. A project on a wide-ranging and will be a collective one. For now, everything is top secret.
Before you said that all six places where you have been "formed" photographically. Would you like to talk in more detail about this?
It all started in Rome. With its sky, its parks, its special light, so clear and sharp. Rome is my passion for photography. On the rest is history. Then came to London with its light, its colors, architecture and faces that do not can be found anywhere else. When someone says that London is dark gray and not true. London is colorful, full of life, is a place where you feel like a hero and the next day, no one can hear you. Living there has given a boost to my photographs. Even the meeting with some people. And now there's Milan, the fashion city, a place so attractive and intriguing but also difficult and arduous. But I like challenges and we will see that my picture will undergo change.
Speaking of change: looking at your stream on flickr, I noticed that at some point you've switched to analog. Why?
I felt the need to prove myself. And I felt the need to take "the photo". With digital, you take like 200 pictures, or nearly so, during a shooting. And then you find yourself analyzing them all to understand what is the best. With the analog picture is. It is enough. And then there's the surprise, wait for the development, see what pops up. It would be nice to go back to analog, only use my old Canon AE1 program, but I know that is impossible (or almost).
What are your favorite photographers?
Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Carlotta Manaigo, Terry Richardson, Ryan McGinley, Mario Testino, Wolfgang Tillmans. They are each one different but inspire me, send me something.
One thing that you find easy to photograph and one that finds it difficult
All. Everything may seem difficult. But even easier.
A good purpose for the future.
Become famous and established. Joke ... Being able to work in photography, be able to do this I want to try to improve every day. And if the success and success is coming ... well. The secret is to always keep our feet on the ground, firmly. Then things get.
To see more photos of Fabio, you can visit his website or his Flickr account .
course all images are © Fabio Astone.
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