I started photographing when I was 17 and I got my first reportage published when I was 19. My first camera belonged to my grandfather. Since then I changed several cameras but I still stay with analogic photography. As a matter of fact none of the 15 photos of my portfolio submission underwent digital manipulation.
It is difficult to me to stand the huge quantity of images that we all are kind of obliged to look at everyday.
In my photography I try to match the concepts that I wish to express together with a good esthetical image. I believe that we European kind of inherit a sensibility for the value represented by the combination concept/beauty. I therefore still give importance to the composition and light in photography. I would personally consider composition and light even if I photographed a garbage dump or starving people. To some of the unlucky subjects of those shots, it might be their only chance to be part of an “experience of beauty”.
As I am not sure that in this submission one is allowed to explain the works that one presents, I am only adding that my 15 enclosed photos respectively belong to the following series:
-Champions in Black and White ( text of presentation and further images on www.stefanonicolini.com/eng/villaggio.php )
-Saltpetre Miners’ Villages in the Antofagasta Desert (Chile) ( text of presentation and further images on www.stefanonicolini.com/eng/campioni_bn.php)
Stefano Nicolini is Italian. He lives in Rome.
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