Matteo Prezioso
Welcome Home, 3.5F
Hi everyone, I would like to share with you a happy story of medium format perseverance, analog faith, unconditional film love, and some kick-assing top of the notch camera. Namely, a Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar. But let's make it short. (I will break the narrative by putting photos taken at different times with the camera in question.) I am Italian, and came to Bogotá, Colombia without speaking a word of Spanish. That was never a problem though, as being Italian my hand gesturing was always, we
Live Music & Live Photos
Beside photography, my other passion in life has always been music. I also ended up spending quite a few years of my early life playing in a few bands in Italy, mainly on a strict Fender Stratocaster/Marshall diet. But that's another story, so let's move on. So, in terms of music, what better city than London to go out and watch a concert almost every night? Actually, that was not the reason I moved there, but it did help a bit. I soon came to realise that was the combination of music & phot
Penning The City Down: A Half Frame Tale.
I might have already said, here and there. I might have as I have a well proven history f repeating myself. Anyway. I did try to like digital. And that's a fact. I mean, I was faking it so well I was actually beginning to believe it myself. But that was a long time ago; nowadays I got back to my own feet, and I am usually referred to as 'that freak who shoots film.' So, how did things turn out this way? What did really happen? I believe this camera did. Olympus Pen EES-2 Ilford XP2 400
Expired Streets On Expired colors
I have been a professional photographer for sometime now, and some of you know me well enough to know I tried well hard enough to both like and believe in digital. However, things did not turn out the way they probably should have. Basically, the more I tried, the more I disliked it. It's now been (also) quite sometime I have been teaching photography; all I try to do is to make both sure and clear the differences of those mediums to my students. Some of them will catch that right away, other
Why I am Reverting to Analog for my Professional Work.
Okay, let's just start by saying it is not easy let me tell you. But I do find it necessary. To me, to my art, to my clients. Mostly me though. It is, however, a decision I feel I should have taken long ago, as it had been pretty much clear to me from the get go that digital was not for me. Or I was not for it. Whatever. Now, how do you convince a client? How do you even approach such issue? Well, you don't. I have tried, don't get me wrong. I have been so passionate about using film for
On Streets on Analog.
One thing is for sure. I have always had a strong, deep fascination for the streets. Wherever I am, whoever I'm with, whenever that happens, I feel I belong to that moment. And, in my modest opinion, there is no better way than to express such feelings by photographing that moment. In analog, that is. It's always been like this. I don't think this feeling will ever change, and I don't see why it should, either. Olympus OM-4ti / Zuiko OM 35mm 1:2.8 / Konica Minolta VX100 (expired 2007,