Okay, this is an epochal change for me: I am shooting un-commissioned portraits. I hear you saying, “What’s so strange about it?” I know, many photographers do shoot a lot of personal work on a regular basis. I am not at all used to it. In general, if it’s not for publication, I don’t feel like shooting pictures.
“Bad, bad, bad,” someone told me recently, “why you don’t do it?”
Because I want to know how the picture will be used before shooting it.
“And how would your portraits look if you were free to shoot them without the limitations of your clients?”
Ah, that question was really powerful! Magazines are always asking me to photograph people according to certain aesthetic guidelines. And I don’t like it!
Here you have my first un-commissioned portraits: sculptor Carla Sanguineti, photographer Paola Pisanelli and art gallery owner Carlo Madesani.
More to follow.
Carla Sanguineti
Paola Pisanelli
Carlo Madesani
