Fabrizio Maffei

Country: Italy 🇮🇹

I was born in 1987 and my passion for photography and cinematography is immediately
spontaneous. My father, an amateur photographer, took me with him along Italy, and while he was taking
photos I watched him. I remember how I leaned out of the back seat of the car to see him.
I looked at my father with admiration and when I entered the dark room I dreamed of being able to take
pictures like the ones of him.
I was not interested in the great photographers, but the great directors and cinematographers.
I was trying to learn photography more from cinema than anything else.
Kubrick, Lynch, Scott, Storaro and many others, strange to say, but they were the idols of my childhood.
Later, after my studies I became a photographer in the editorial office of a local newspaper and there I
learned a lot.
I learned to photograph for a newspaper which is completely different from photographing what you want.
The news, sport, worldliness, in that period I deal with everything in all 24 hours of the day.
I learn how a photographer has to move: to always be at the center of the scene without being seen,
without bothering.
I learn a lot but I come into contact with the ugliest things in life: drama, death.
The crime story leads me to photograph accidents, arrests, earthquakes, ugly scenes that no one would
want to see but which have the right to be reported, and for which I was sick. Reviewing those scenes in
post-production, there are no words, it was very difficult.
Now I am a completely freelance photographer and I still move following the news and projects for
architectural firms always hoping to be able to take that photo that can be remembered