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Photographer Edoardo Piccinini
First French-speaking Belgian photographer QEP
Tell us about yourself, your hobbies and your other passions
I am a professional photographer and designer, I love everything related to technology, computers, IT and I am also interested in European politics and all forms of arts.
How your stories and life experiences affect your photography?
With photography, I would like to capture the reality of things. So, I always put my experiences and discoveries, whatever they are, in the photos that I realize. However, photography influence my worldview.
What are the most important experiences that influenced your art?
There are many influences, but two or three stand out. The first is the discovery of the phantasmagorical world of the film Blow up when I studied drawing at St Luc. The other major influence is the discovery of the great modern photographers but also great old photographers like Alfred Stieglitz, Yousuf Karsh, Avedon. As you can understand, I intended me to the portrait photo. The third was when I received the qualification QEP (Qualified European Photographer) by F.E.P (Photographers Federation Europeans). After many attempts, I could see that their selection procedures are very strict. You realize so that your image has to be perfect to be believable, and more, I had not made the choice to normality.
What attracted you to photography?
Creativity. I was 15 when I started taking pictures and I'm very attracted to portraits and shooting in the Technical Chamber. When I started in the portrait, I tried to capture the sensuality in the eye of my models. I wanted exalt their beauty. Subsequently, I focused on shooting studio techniques for advertising, and finally I now am focusing on the architectural shooting.
Why are you so attracted by the architecture and the creative possibilities of photography?
My obsession is perfection in photography, so I can’t abandon my technical side. In my images of buildings, I can introduce a technical dimension in the rigor of the shooting, the artistic and technical drawing come together in the creation of my photos.
What is most important to you, the story behind your imagesor technical perfection?
Both. But without technical perfection, there is no strong or creative images.
What is usually your relationship with the subject, beyond being a mere observer?
It must necessarily have a beauty in the forms, you can’t photograph a building without a clear vision of volumes and results to be obtained.
Do you carefully prepare and location settings before shooting?
Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Everything depends on the weather, I travel several times to make a picture. Or the time is not right, or the sky does not suit me, or the sky is overcast, it is imperative for architectural photography to have a beautiful sky, even for night shots.
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