After the article about his photographic work, Giacomo was so kind as to grant us an interview. You can get a glimpse of his photographic work here.
Could you please tell us something about yourself?
I’m a freelance photographer who lives in the mountains of Valtellina in the italian central Aps. I’m 31 year old and love sports, nature and photography. I’m one of the founders of our italian photography team clickalps.com. In collaboration with Clickalps I organize workshop, every kind of photography service, especially in wild mountains condition, cooperate with many magazines, realize calendars and many other thing in the magic world of photography.
Can you briefly tell us about your photographic background? When did you start taking photographs, how did you start?
I starting make picture recently, about 4 years ago, with my master and now colleague Roberto Moiola. In this time my passion rise up constantly until to became my firs work since 2 year.
What photographic style do you prefer? Would you like to specialize in a specific area, such as street photography or portrait / landscape photography?
I like nature, all nature, but i’m specialized in landscapes also for commercial reasons. My photography style is an action-photography and combine athletic performance to photographic ones. I’m always in movement maybe for many our in every conditions, grounds, time and season.
Can you tell us how your work flows from the moment you get the idea to the stage of final presentation?
Is quite simple, my picture as naturally … I love nature and my mountans and I think that it just have the beauty, I don’t need to recreate it by computer or post-processing….is not my world and not my style also if always more people do it to make their picture more impressive, colored and scenic. Digital world make that possible, but if you have, like us, to print it and to show in magazines and so you cannot do that.
So I store in double copy my pictures and post-produced rapidly with adobe lightroom and show some one of it to people…
Could you possibly provide a tip to the amazing street photograph style, how much the pictures are processed afterwards, and what else one should take into consideration?
In your opinion, what constitutes the art of producing extraordinary street photographs, and what are the characteristics of a good picture in this field?
What equipment do you use and what are your favorite focal lengths?
I use every kind of focal lens because I like in the same place and sunset take picture of the far details like of the foreground and classic landscape ….
What characterizes your work in comparison to other street photographers / landscape photographers?
Many of landscape photographers don’t like the long approaches and the fatigue to take picture, i don’t take care of it and I like make picture where no one go. When I’m in a photography travel and the light and weather is good I never stop, I stay around for all the day and night maybe also for 2 or 3 days with no problem to what to eat or when or where to sleep … make picture and go is the first the other things are not important. Because a Clickalpers don’t sleep, waits…
Were there interesting incidents in your photo shoots, whether funny, embarrassing or sad?
I could tell many stories about many of my picture but maybe is too long J .
What are the most important experiences you had during your photographic career?
I’m a young freelance…every sunrise o sunset for me is an important experience and these year, I hope, to arrive to 100 sunrise 
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What advice would you give to a newbie for his/her photographic career?
Passion at first because especially at the start you will not see money and regards and in second you have also to pass many time to show your picture and work, by website, social and contact local people to work and make photographic service – products
Were you inspired by other photographers, and if so, which ones?
No, I follow myself
Do you have a dream for photography that you would like to fulfill?
Make this work without to have to think to the commercial and economic things.
And take much more people to love, protect, live the nature ….come back to nature.
Thank you very much for this interview. We will follow your progress in photography and will continue to be inspired by it.
