About you:
I’m
Chiara Baragatti, I’m 33 years old. I live in Follonica, Tuscany-Italy.
What
is it that attracts you the most of what you have around you?
Many
things: the everyday life, silence, people, the sea….Everything that
attracts me!I try to establish a contact with each thing around me.
Tell
us about your experience as photographer what did it give you?
For
me photography is a great way to express myself , I was lucky enough to
have known photography in a dark room with some good friends, before
university.
It
was magic, a good sensation. I remember the dark, the red light, the rumor of
the timer.
I
didn’t think about the composition or a subject of a frame, but I was attracted
by the method.
Then
I decided to partecipate to a course of photography with Antonio Presta a great
photographer.
I
took part to a cultural association Fotoclub Follonica and now I have founded
an other photographic association with my best friends that is Fonderie
Fotografiche.
We
organize workshops, exibitions, photographic travels with some important
photographers and it represents for me a teaching and an inspiration. www.fonderiefotografiche.com
Three
adjectives to describe yourself.
Sincere,
lover, creative
A
film, a book and a song
A
Film: Amores Perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu
A
book: Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo
A
song : Desafinado by Joao Gilberto
What
camera do you use? lense?
I
use a digital reflex Nikon D200 and an analogic Nikkorex. My favourite lense is
a 20mm.
Tell
about exhibition if you ‘ve had any.
I
have partecipated in several collective exibitions: in my city Follonica, in
Cascina and Bibbiena (Tuscany) in Milan and in Rome.
Do
you sell prints? How do you make it and where can someone buy?
I
accept orders by e-mail: baragattichiara@yahoo.it
What
was your most big success?
Practically,
this is my first real project "In the bathroom" with which I won one
first prize and admissions to photo contests and some publications in
magazines, but what I consider my greatest success is to have a world around me
of friends and people who love photography.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75768298@N03/sets/72157629149644794/
Favourite
photographer.
It’s impossible to quote only one!
My favourite photographers who inspire me are: Henry Cartier Bresson, Anna Di
Prospero, Alexander Gronsky and Anni Leppälä and
Gabriele Basilico.
Describe
some of your projects
I
wish always improve my sensibility for capture beautiful and particular moments
of life around me.
For
example my project “in the bathroom” began as autobiographical project
that aims to describe one of the spheres of femininity.
They
are self-portraits that clearly never reveal the identity of the subject.
This
choice of non-identification allows each woman to identify with these images.
“Summer
time” instead is the mirror of a summer lived during sunrise, at sunset,
when everyone are still sleeping or are resting enjoying their holidays in
peace.
And
I look for my sea, my beach, places off the beaten track, timetables not noisy.
The
lonely landscape is the protagonist, heated by beautiful lights.
Colorful
and minimal instants, symbols of human presence: umbrellas, beach chairs.
“Bye Bye Summer” represents my city after the
summer where entire neighborhoods are empty, the beach becomes deserted
and autumn with its many colors and fragrances wipes out the noises and
crowding, allowing it to restore calm and tranquility. Geometric rigor and
seriality, a meeting with its own facilities, with core assets: form, space,
line, surface to be an 'essential research.
Your main concept.
I
don't really have a main concept, I try to create a contact with people,
situations, sensations around me.
What is your occupation, job, interest besides
photography.
I’m a Social Assistant and I like to travel, to
listen to music and I love so much being in the arms of my boyfriend.
Which advice would you give someone who wants to
become a (professional) photographer?
I'm not a professional photographer, but I still
believe that it is important to be yourself.
Your plans.
always be proud of me.
Chiara Baragatti
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