ALESSANDRO CALABRESE
Where are you from? Where do you live?
I’m from Trento. I live in Venezia.
How old are you?
I’m 26 years old.
How do you pay your bills? Are you working as a professional photographer?
No, I’m not working as a professional photographer, I’m studying to become an architect, and I’m about to graduate.
What cameras do you use?
I normally use a Nikon D200 with different lenses.
Any photographer or artist inspiring you?
No one in particular and, at the same time, many photographers, more or less famous. Howere, recently, while searching on portrait photography, I have discovered some affinities with an old danish painter, Vilhelm Hammershøi. I love him.
What/who do you enjoy to shoot the most?
Definitely as anyone can see my favorite subject is Ylenia, but in the last period I’m trying to give a visual dignity to objects, architectures and spaces that most of people usually don’t notice, “wastes”, certainly they are not canonically beautiful but for me are fascinating from the photographic point of view.
Do you believe in god?
In the words of Luis Buñuel: thank God I am an atheist.
What do you drink on a night out?
Mojito.
Do you like dancing?
No, man is made to sit at the table drinking and swearing.
What’s your favourite first name?
I think it’s Sophie.
Are you a fashion addicted?
I would say I’m careful about what I wear.
What’s your favorite tv series?
Without doubt ‘Dexter’, a cut above the rest ! If Instead I want to laugh, I watch ‘How I
met your mother’: it is great.
Recommend us a book.
As we are speaking English, I would recommend you ‘Infinite Jest’ BY David
Foster Wallace.
What’s the country of your dreams?
A better Italy.
However, I’ve been wanting to go to New York and I hope to realize this dream in 2011.
Have you ever been to Iceland?
Unfortunately no.
website: http://alessandrocalabrese.carbonmade.com
flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ztona