I'm a 31 year old guy who lives in a small town in Central Italy. I've got a psychology degree in my pocket and a work as professional photographer in Krup studio (which I co-own with my dear friend).
Since 2015 I am a member of Eyegobananas, an italian street photography collective.
My intent is to combine the street photography approach with some aspects of the surrealism, so what I'm really looking for is to get people (me at first) questioning what they're seeing.
I'm not interested in definitively telling people what to see, I'm looking for possibilities and for implicit stories.
Psychology has a huge impact on how people perceive a photograph. People's brains trigger different things, so when looking at the same image, some may come away feeling claustrophobic; it might remind someone of something, like of their father or of a film they watched last week; some might see a story about love in an image; others may interpret it as domestic abuse; some may find pleasure in the aesthetic coherence; some might feel indifferent. It's open to interpretation.
One very important aspect in my photography concern lighting; seems obvious to tell, but it is so powerful. From where I'm standing and from where the light naturally falls, the light can highlight certain elements in the scene and disregard others. This definitely encourages the surrealist aesthetic, and it works hand in hand with obscure angles, layering, reflections and colours. What's most interesting to me is that, although I try not to meddle in the scene to preserve authenticity, by definition it can't be real, because it's only my way of seeing; it's real for me.
As you get at one point, there's something suggesting that there's something more. It is a continuos discovery, that's why it is so interesting to me