gabriele rigon 231
Nationality italian
Main working location italy
Photographic method Digital
gabriele rigon was born into
photography as his family had run
a studio since the time of his great-
grandfather. rather than making it his
career he initially joined the italian armed
services, and is now a helicopter pilot.
His first serious foray with his camera
was in reportage work, recording a Un
mission in namibia. Today he shoots
nudes for many international magazines
and his work has appeared on more than
40 book covers.
http://www.gabrielerigon.it
in my opinion, every woman can be a model because every woman has
about her a femininity that a good photographer should be able to draw
out. but if you don’t know the model personally, it’s harder to interpret
her beauty and, however nice-looking she is, she may not be a good
subject for fine art photography. The models i use are all girls that i
know and most of them aren’t professionals—in fact, some of them
have posed only for me. i prefer to work with just a few models and
build up a long working relationship, since the better you know your
model the better your images will
end up being. When a model is
used to you she feels less inhibited
in front of the camera, she can
anticipate the type of photograph
you want, and she can give
you all her sensuality and beauty. it is a sort of sensual game, and it
is your goal to steal a little bit of her privacy—but never more than
she will permit.
Today, most erotic images are fleeting, even furtive, on TV and
in films. Fine art photography allows us to enjoy the classical values of
the human body as a thing not just of beauty but also nobility. if you look
at the statues of ancient greece, nothing has changed since then in the
way that beautiful women are portrayed. i think the female nude is
nature’s finest form; i am so moved by it i try to translate what i feel into
images. in every photograph i take, i freeze a woman’s mood in time
and create an eternal symbol of beauty. The truth is that i am a
romantic, and when faced with female beauty the only way for me
to say something is with poetry, translated into an image.
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