{"id":147,"date":"2015-01-02T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2015-01-02T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:30:11","slug":"interview-with-street-photographer-alessio-trerotoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decisiveshot.com\/interview-with-street-photographer-alessio-trerotoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Street Photographer Alessio Trerotoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently came across the work of Alessio Trerotoli and was really impressed with his unique project Urban Melodies<\/em>.\u00a0 If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet I’d implore you to head over to his website<\/a> and check it out.\u00a0 Trerotoli’s Urban Melodies series has been getting national attention for good reason.\u00a0 By combining multiple exposures of a cityscape and people he creates impressionistic looking photographs that remind me of something Claude Monet would have come up with.<\/p>\n

Beyond the Urban Landscape series, Trerotoli is an impressive Street Photographer who took the time to share with us some insight.\u00a0 Alessio is one of only a very few photographers whose work I’d hang on my own wall (if my Fianc\u00e9e would allow it!).<\/p>\n[John] What is Street Photography to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] Street Photography means a lot of things to me.\u00a0 It\u2019s a way to tell stories.\u00a0 It\u2019s a way to express myself, to create a connection with other people.\u00a0 It\u2019s a way to find something new, that allows me to keep my eyes always wide.\u00a0 It\u2019s a way to discover the real soul of a place.\u00a0 And especially it\u2019s a way to try to stop time in the daily life:\u00a0 I know, this isn\u2019t a very original point, but I think that every photographer is obsessed with time.<\/em><\/p>\n[John] Why do you enjoy Street Photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] What I love about Street Photography is that, unlike studio, architecture or landscape photography, if in that moment you hadn\u2019t been there, that picture would never have existed.\u00a0 If you had chosen another street or if you had stopped to look at your smart phone, such picture would never have existed.\u00a0 The fact to be there, to have taken this picture, somehow makes you feel a little like a special human being.<\/em><\/p>\n[John] What advice would you give someone starting out in Street Photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] At the beginning it\u2019s enough to just go out, walk a lot and take pictures.\u00a0 Starting a 365 project [a photo a day for a year] can be a good way to keep your eyes always ready to find something to shoot.<\/em><\/p>\n[John] When you photograph strangers do you approach them first or do you prefer a more candid shot?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] In Street Photography I think that it\u2019s always better to say \u201csorry\u201d after a photo instead of \u201ccan I?\u201d before to shoot.\u00a0 I absolutely prefer a candid shot, maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m a little bit shy, so I don\u2019t have enough courage to approach strangers!\u00a0 Candid shots can tell more about people, because if they don\u2019t know that you\u2019re taking a photograph they can be natural and real.<\/em><\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n[John] What inspired you to create the Urban Melodies<\/em> series?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] I was in Istanbul when I saw some interesting works of a turkish photographer, Jak Baruh.\u00a0 He works with multi-layered pictures, and his work really inspired me to create my series.\u00a0 I tried to put my style and my sensibility in this project, that I see like melodic images: similar to the musical notes in a melody, each picture can stand by itself, but layered with the other pictures, the new image expresses a richer meaning.\u00a0 All of them, if linked to one another and concatenated in a bigger context, can create something different and, most importantly, something unique.\u00a0 They can reach a different meaning and become part of the melody: this is why my project is named \u201cUrban Melodies\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n[John] When did you first realize you had a passion for photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] I always had a passion for photography. There is a moment I can’t forget: when I was 10 years old I was showing to my grandmother photos of a little excursion I made with school in a place not far from Rome. My album was full of pictures of my schoolmates and my grandma told me: \u201cBut where are you?\u201d. In that moment I realized that there wasn\u2019t a picture of me in the entire album because I always was behind the camera. It was the first time I saw myself like a photographer.<\/em><\/p>\n[John] What was your first camera?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] When I was a child it was a Canon Prima Junior, can\u2019t forget it, it was always with me.\u00a0 When I was a boy most of my friends used to spend money on beers or expensive clothes: I spent every cent on music, movies and developing films (well, on some beers too!).\u00a0 Lately I bought my first digital camera, a Canon 400D.<\/em><\/p>\n[John] What\u2019s in your camera bag now?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] I\u2019m not obsessed with lens or gears.\u00a0 When I go out for Street Photography I have with me just my Canon 60D and my 50mm.\u00a0 I have a 17-85 in my room, but I use it only when I really need it.\u00a0 I walk a lot (in travel or in my hometown) so I prefer to have a lightweight bag.\u00a0 Once I read something that sounds perfect to me: \u201cIn Street Photography the best gear is a good pair of shoes\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n[John] Where is your favorite place to photograph and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] In travel.\u00a0 When I am in a place that I don\u2019t know I\u2019m really inspired.\u00a0 Through my camera I can really try to understand a place and its little secrets.\u00a0 In my hometown (Rome) I need to work on myself to find inspiration, and it\u2019s not easy.\u00a0 Josef Koudelka once said: \u201cWhen you live in a place for a long time, you start becoming blind because you don’t observe anything more. I travel to don’t become blind\u201d.\u00a0 This is also the first line of my book \u201cFuori dalla caverna\u201d\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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There Is Light That Never Goes Out<\/p><\/div>\n[John] Of all the various photography projects you\u2019ve worked on which one has been your favorite and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n[Alessio] Well, I love \u201cUrban Melodies\u201d because I can put all of my creativity into it and try different solutions for every image. This is very important to me.\u00a0 I\u2019m also really involved in my last project \u201cHeroes\u201d, dedicated to Rome and the (anti)heroes of its daily life: through photography I\u2019m trying to feel the soul of their frantic living (it\u2019s also a homage to a David Bowie\u2019s song that tells: \u201cWe can be heroes, just for one day\u201d).<\/em><\/p>\n[John] Who inspires you?<\/p>\n[Alessio] I\u2019ve always admired photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau, I also love Margaret Bourke-White and Vivian Maier.\u00a0 But not only photographers.\u00a0 I find inspiration in music, books, movies, people around me. My personal heroes are Bruce Springsteen and Antoine Doinel (the protagonist of lot of Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut\u2019s movies).<\/p>\n

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Top Image – Times Square<\/em><\/p>\n

Alessio’s Website: http:\/\/www.alessiotrerotoli.it\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Alessio’s Facebook Page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlessioTrerotoliPhotographer<\/a><\/p>\n

If you like Alessio’s work you can head over to his website<\/a> and support him by purchasing prints of your own.\u00a0 If you’d like to be featured on PhotolisticLife.com<\/a> or DecisiveShot.com contact me (contact<\/a>) with links to your portfolio or website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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