Issue 94 - April 2023

Photographer Max Lazzerini (Italia)
Can you tell us a little about you? I was born a few years ago, unfortunately as a Leo with a Leo ascendant, at the
age of 10 I followed an analog photography course (to be exact, developing and printing in the darkroom), I like it
but I learn and put it aside.
I grow up nervous and short-tempered and start studying electronics and computer science, but I'm not passionate
about it, indeed computer science does... but only in the field of graphics. In the meantime I start writing stories in
comics, but I don't have the hand (I don't have the luck of many) and I do it much better using a camera. But it's the
analog period, it takes time, it takes money and I'm nervous and short-tempered and poor thing.
I read light, I love material contrasts, character textures and the world of architecture allows me to fully express my
language. At the same time, I take on professional assignments (weddings, etc...) that don't excite me but help me
to get by during my studies, along with a thousand other activities. Then I graduate, but I continue to grow nervous
and/or short-tempered, developing my work with devoted obstinacy. I photograph by uniting these two souls, the
instinctive and impulsive one, the rational and analytical one.
I work with logistical preparation but without a written scheme, without defined poses; dialogue and create empathy
with the subject, model or other, so that he can fully express himself, I try to enter the personal sphere to understand
and reveal the normally hidden sensuality, I like to reveal the femininity of every woman or every couple.
I'm nervous and short-tempered and I'm proud of it
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