Interview with Sara Bianchi; Published in our print edition #06

Born in Italy in 1973, I have always been passionate about travel and photography. I love discovering new places and, above all, knowing the ways of life of people a bit far from my lifestyles.

Every time I go to a place, I try to interact as much as possible with the subjects portrayed in order to obtain photos that  tell the story of the people who shared with me a few moments of their lives. During the years, I have held many personal and group’s photo exhibitions. Several of my photos won prizes and received placements in national and international photo contests. My next challenge is to turn my passion in a job. [Print Version] [Digital Version]

Watching photographic books I discovered a lot of amazing photographers and I starting to study their lives. I dreamed to growing up and travel around the world like them, exploring every corner of the planet. I start my photographic passion taking B&W photography, developing my films by myself in the darkroom. It was simply exciting to see my pictures becoming real!

What inspired you take your “The Nenets” project?

My photographic style is about reportage and documentary. I have learned from the “bigs” how to get into the frame and to go closer to the scene.

I don’t call myself a technician. I focus on the feeling I get when I face a situation or when I meet a person. I don’t like to spend lot of time in post-producing an image. I only regulate some lights and contrast, not more than this. For some particular projects I digitally turn my pictures from colour to black and white trying to give an especial mood to the whole project.

In your opinion, what makes a good Fine art Photography

I use to collect as much information as possible in preparation of the project I’ll have to work on.

In my opinion a project well done must transport the reader into the scene

Doing a long preparation work, I have already the idea of how is the final result. Despite that, sometimes I start a project taking inspiration from a picture I mostly  like.

Hundreds of books about composition have been written but when a picture is well balanced there is something magic that it’s hard to explain at words.

I travel with a very small equipment. In my bag I have a Fuji x100T and a Fiji x-T2 with a 14mm lens. I don’t need anything else.

A website is very important for a photographer because it helps to split quickly the work and bring yourself around the world getting in touch with other photographers and sharing different ideas of image.

Living with the nenets I understand how it’s hard to live a nomadic life. That’s why I decided to photograph nomadic people from different country in order to create a wide anthropological project.

Finally, one las question. What opinion do you have of our print edition?

The printed version of Dodho Magazine it’s absolutely amazing! I love to see well printed images and Dodho is a very good way to develop the photographic culture.