November BTS

Good afternoon everyone!

It's that time of the month, where I'm sharing my thoughts, more than usual 🤪

November has been a quiet month in terms of work, but I did very nice things for myself. The last couple of months have been very tiring and definitely too intense. Every time I come back from a very long trip I always feel totally drained out of energies and creativity. I lose contact with my emotions, and I just repeat my poses in front of the camera without feeling anything inside of me.

The goal for the next months will be to slow down on paid assignments,  but work more on personal projects to share here and see what to do in order to achieve that extra step I kept looking for in my life, but never gave to myself the possibility to meditate on it.

Anyway this month, I felt I was already healing, and good news, creativity are slowly coming back:

- I spent 2 great weeks in Paris surrounded by my beloved ones, relaxing, having fun, doing simple things, enjoying the Autumn and collecting nice memories. Shot with new and old photographers that you'll see here in the next month: Remi Rebillard, Francois Lenski, Alex Paoleschi and Andrea Celine. 

- I came back to London for a week and shot again with dear Julien Lalluette at my place (first ever shoot in my house since I moved in!) and with a new photographer, who I've been trying to organise with for ages and finally had a great shoot: Brian Rolfe. Probably great prints will come out from that shoot 🤫

- and last but not least, I went to Fuerteventura with my dear friend Roberto Mannini, to start our second book! I have to say that both of us are not living the best moment, and in terms of photos, it didn't come out what we expected. Our first book is called "Intimate", cause it's based on emotions. It was born from our shoot in Matera, during a trip for one of his exhibition's projects. While we were talking on the bed, we stopped, looking at the very soft light laying on the walls in that moment, we looked at each other eyes and without saying a word, he caught his camera and I went in front of his lens. I was living a difficult time in that period and I used that opportunity to pour out all my emotions, and he wrote them down through his photos and following me with his camera, in silence. The pictures came out amazing, so strong and of course "intimate". It was a magical moment! So we kept doing this kind of shoots in different locations, with the goal to create a book based on what we experienced together.  The mistake we made during this last trip, I think it was that we didn't have our usual spontaneity, and were too focused on the locations, too many locations! I felt like a block while shooting, that I couldn't express what I needed and wanted, because the light and surroundings weren't helping and Roberto was overwhelmed by the landscapes and all the elements close to me. Thinking about it afterward, we always shot in places that he knew already, or we spent at least one day scouting during our trips, and still, the locations usually were indoor limited spaces. Said that, I personally think, that the biggest mistake was to search for something that was similar to our first book, but the point is, that it won't be! I feel now relieved, cause I understand that we did take great shots, they'll be just different. I'm waiting for him to share the folder, and I'm sure that when I'll see them everything will make sense and will create a new story, a new paragraph of our career, and life. I'll tell you more once I'll have them on my screen 💙

We also decided to use this trip in Fuerteventura to officially present our book on socials, I signed already a couple of copies, that have been shipped to different countries! If you want to make us a gift, but also to yourself, you can buy yours through this link, sending me a message in case you want it signed ❤️

https://www.robertomannini-photographer.com/en/shop/libro-intimate.html

Summing up this November, honestly I'm very happy, and I'm sure the next one will be the same. I received a couple of very good work news and I'm planning more collaborations!

Hope you had a great month too and you enjoyed following me through my journey! Thanks again for your great support, you're special people ❤️ Your messages, comments and simply seeing new people coming here really mean a lot for me!

See you soon next month!