Why photography?

I have always loved photography. I remember, when I was a child, taking my mum's camera -without her permission- and start to capture everything around me. It was not a very good camera but it was enough to introduce myself into that world that fascinated me since the first contact.

A beautiful landscape, my brother playing in the water, those pencils that I used to draw with, the smile of my mum, a flower starting to bloom, my grandfather blowing his birthday candles... I wanted to capture everything, every moment is unique and being able to immortalise them made me feel a magic tickle inside me.

If you ask me what I like most about photography I would say that it is the ability it gives me to make 'ugly' things look beautiful. Most of my most appealing pictures are taken in some dull places. For me, a photo does not have to show what is the photographer looking at, but to show how is he looking at it. Sometimes we are so overwhelmed by our problems that we are only able to see the banality, but behind it there is always a story, something to tell or to imagine.

My work as a photographer is to help people to recover the eyes they had when they were a child. A naive glance is enough to remember that feeling of finding fun everywhere. Just try to remember it, try to recover it.

My photographs try to be inspiring, they try to show what is not obvious, they try to show a part of me.

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I hope you have liked this short post talking about photography. I would love to read your opinion about it or any advice you have for me. Thank you very much!

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