BTS September

Good evening 🌞

Only a few days and I'll be flying to USA! As last year I'm super thrilled and anxious at the same time. October will be a very busy month but I hope I'll manage to create even more space of what I kept for some good collaborations. Surely I'll work with old and new photographers from LA but I'm still struggling to find cool people in NYC, if some of you have some suggestions feel free to let me know! And then Paris next November, can't wait to be back to create with my favorite people and new ones. I'm in a period, as probably I already mentioned, that I need to do an extra step. And it's not easy when I keep filling my time with working projects, which they're nice most of the time but they're not me 100%.By the end of the year I want to set new goals for the next one, I have to grow more and have more important experiences, so I'll work hard on that and you'll be my witnesses 😌

Let's go back to September, what happened:

- I went for the first time to Poland, and I liked it very much! I participated to this amazing photographic event organised in 2 amazing locations with incredible dresses and make up. A new fun and great experience from which you too have benefited considering videos and pictures uploaded during this month!

- I went to Switzerland, for the first time here too. I did't enjoy very much the experience in general considering I struggle with many " technical/organisation problems", the weather wasn't good most of the time and I didn't do even one collaboration, and as you know I feel depressed when I don't include not even one tiny spot for my personal creative space. BUT, I shot with a client in Geneve and I loved working with him so much, that I asked him to trade the pictures to show them to you. So you'll know a new photographer next month! Eventually 50% of Swiss clients were very good photographers but also very good people. And even if very briefly, I had the opportunity to admire some amazing Swiss landscapes. So honestly, it wasn't that bad! 

- I met (finally I can say it), Vincent Peters in Bologna yesterday. His work (that I had the privilege of seeing it printed at the gallery of Palazzo Reale) is impressive and heavy of emotions. Listening him talking about anecdotes and his life really moved me and it made me craving even more working with him, hopefully at some point in my life. We spent most of the day talking and drinking tea, jumping from a place to another one. He's actually even better than what I expected, such a humble and down to earth person, passionate, romantic and (as many artists lately) a bit disappointed of how the world is evolving and the value of art with it. At the end of the day I felt a melancholic and nostalgic feeling, a bitter taste. This is not the first time I experience it, sometimes I noticed successful and talented photographers start to be scared of touching their camera, they take fewer and even fewer photos, being not able to find the inspiration or an idea better than the previous one. I guess it works as with movies! When the first one comes out a success, it's hard to keep the same level with the second, or the third one. Expectations, competitors, the current taste of the audience  and the dynamism of an unstoppable moving world, can easily overwhelm an artist. You can be the best for a moment, but it won't last long. Tomorrow there always will be someone who can do the same thing, or something different, better than you. And most of the people are merciless and readily move on, forgetting what they loved for a moment. The key is producing timeless art, and I think that Vincent did it very well, since he still exhibits work already 20 years old and bravely never stopped using analog cameras. But I think that there's much more he can give, and I can't wait to see it printed! Hoping to be part of it at some point :)

- Last positive but not least important, I kept many days this month to enjoy my free time with people I love and came back from my family in Italy before leaving for the long trip and spending the last summer moments here.

It was a good month! I'm happy. I hope it was the same for you too and you enjoyed spending this September with me. Thank you so much to everyone for your amazing support, as always.

See you in a few days! Love you all ❤️