AS IS | Laura Zambelli

Photographer

From Venice

Based in Italy

"Initially I painted since I attended the "Liceo Artistico" in Venice, but I never found an end to my creations. One day, by chance, I noticed, a post on an advertising wall, a poster that talked about a photography course and I said to myself: "Why not try it?"

A: Please, tell us a bit more about yourself. What brought you into photography?

L: Initially I painted since I attended the Liceo Artistico in Venice, but I never found an end to my creations. One day, by chance, I noticed, a post on an advertising wall, a poster that talked about a photography course and I said to myself: "Why not try it?".

I signed up right away. The first evening of the course developed with a video on

great photographers. I felt the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I didn't have the camera yet, and my mind was already photographing.

It was January 2010.

A: What inspires you the most?

L: Being able to mix in a portrait all those factors that my creative imagination

dictates to me, such as inserting a person in a landscape, and using a

perfectly suitable outfit, in order to create a shot that is full of

poetry and romance.

A: Do you have any specific rituals while working (creating)?

L: Listen to music, so I can get in touch with my artistic soul.

A: What would you recommend to someone new to photography, what to begin with?

L: To listen to each other, understand what his/hers eyes are intrigued by and work on it, to find your own style, which is certainly not easy at the beginning, but if you know how to see inside and outside of us, everything can become easier.

The more you get to know each other intimately, the stronger the images we are going to create will be.

A: Top 3 components for great photography?

L: Light above all. It creates that magical atmosphere that we want to give to our photo. - The creativity. Daring with the shots, which represent the mental

"imagination". Aesthetic and chromatic taste.

A: I’ve never taken pictures of [ ] but would love to

L: I would love to make Gregory Colbert-style photos, free diving in the sea, with a female figure dressed in white and a whale. I often daydream about these ethereal

images.

A: Must-read books to understand the art of photography?

L: Those about great artists. Reading them makes us understand many things that we now take for granted but are not.

Ansel Adams elaborates his photos with the "zonal system", which allows translating of every detail of the scene according to a precise density of gray decided by the creativity

of the photographer. There are many photographers who do not follow this

line and this is limiting in order to obtain a good photograph.

A: If you could change one thing in the world of photography - what would it be?

L: The relationship between photographers. I think photography, like any other art, should live on sharing.

Unfortunately, this is not the case in this field. It is a world, the photographic world, where some people judge the work of their colleague out of envy, not giving him credit for his growth.

A: Please, share your favorite quote (not necessarily related to the photography)

L: “A winner is a dreamer who hasn't given up”. (Nelson Mandela)

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