Fine art photography - The CreativeMindClass Blog
Custom and often hand-made top hats and masks, crowns, butterfly wings and paintings for backdrops. technique to get the smallest the details that are inspired by vintage noir movies from the 1940s and 1930s. A lot of time and deliberation go into every fine art photograph of the talented Italian photographer Giulia Valente.
We have asked Giulia what the key to creating her artful photography was. Here is her story.
"I graduated from Padua University with degrees in Music, Art, and Theatre in 2006. I have always been attracted to art. One of the things that I like about living in Italy is that art is everywhere. It's simple to get inspired.
My style is defined as fine-art photography: I can see a connection between photography and painting. In a way photography is like painting's younger sibling. Photographs, not just paintings is my primary source of inspiration when planning to shoot-retouch-and-retouch an upcoming project."
"Giovanni Gastel, the just passed away Italian photographer, once told me that one must throw out 10000 good ideas before getting the right one. I try, in my own way to follow this approach. Actually, I keep many ideas in my journal, sketches, notes, and ideas that will likely to remain on paper forever.
The most important step when making a decision on a project is planning. Pre-production is vital to decide to define and concentrate on the idea, then make drawings, collect objects/props... This can be an extremely difficult and lengthy process because photography of this type calls for a lot of concentration, even an obsession, by paying attention to the details little things that aren't easy to notice, but that will make a huge impact."
What was the key to making your caterpillar photographs?
"In the instance in the Caterpillar initiative, I tried to identify the elements which identify the character which make him easily identifiable. These include the blue color and the hookah smokes and the wings when he changes into a butterfly, but as well the manner of speaking - which is somewhat conceited and arrogant. Then I tried to put all these elements together, combining them with the overall style of the image I had in mind.
In May of 2021, an exhibition of my selected artworks was opened at Laboratorio Cardin(Padua, Italy). It is a great feeling and grateful as this is my first show."
A selection of her exquisite art photos, which are rooted in Italian and Flemish paintings of XV and XVI centuries, you can find on her Instagram and her Website.
