Biography
I am an engineer, a mechanical and acoustic engineer, since I was young I like calculation, technology, organization, everything related to concreteness and precision of operation.
But at some point in my life I felt the need to start creating something emotional, disconnected from practicality and technique, something that was useless but that was simply beautiful, exciting.
And so I threw myself into the study of photographic technique (obviously I couldn't manage to be only emotional), into the artistic expression of the great photographers and painters of the past and present, to look for inspiration.
I have found many, but I am always looking for new ideas and possibilities. The real thrill is learning, always.
I am a typical GenX, I still like '70 and '80 music, and I have two beautiful GenZ daughters.
I started to love photography when my dad bought a Nikon EM in the early 1970s, but I always didn't like bulky equipment. I currently shoot with a now old Lumix G6 and an equally old Huawey P20 pro smartphone. I've always thought that a great photo can be taken even with a disastrous camera.
Artist Statement
The light, the sun, that moment in which a ray of light hits a surface in a somewhat particular way, when it crosses a dusty atmosphere or when it is very hard at the zenith and sculpts shapes like a hatchet.
Here, in those moments I have to capture, I feel like a primal instinct, something that is born inside and that gives me a shot of adrenaline. And the more fleeting the atmosphere, the more the adrenaline rises, as I search for the right shot, the right settings.
And then the post-production, because the picture itself never express what I saw, what I felt at that moment. It is necessary that I reconstruct that emotion through an alchemical operation, of fine adjustment of colors, lights, framing, mediated by my memory and all my past as an artist.
Photography it’s not an art itself, it is a tool like the brush, like the chisel. The art is in the image. It does not matter if the final result is unrealistic, technically incorrect, detached from the standards. It must be beautiful, convey an emotion, and it must describe what I felt when I shot.
The physical subject is of little importance to me, the real subject is the light.
I don't like photographing people, it seems to me that the human presence appropriates the image, crystallizes it on a specific time and on a specific subject, while for me the image should be universal, detached from a context, ethereal.
Some of the artists that I consider masters and from whom I try to draw inspiration are Michael Kenna, David Norton, Galen Rowell, Franco Fontana, Robert Adams.
Contacts
I live in Faenza, Italy, and you can contact me using my email info@saviotti.it