I was around 6 when, a Sunday afternoon, I was running on my grandparents’ deck. At a certain point, a warm and safe voice told me: ‘Andrea, would you like to come with me and I teach you how to make pictures?’. It was my dad, he gave me his Carena with 50 mm, and he started explaining how to handle the camera, how to use the button for ‘seeing dark’ for the exposure, the difference among the lens and everything else. The most important thing that you, dad, have taught me is to keep wandering and looking around, trying to catch the detail, the emotion, the light that, once the image is fixed, tells a story. A picture has to express an emotion, arouse a feeling. Thanks, dad.
