Max rossi photographer biography videos
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MR: Do you prefer to get more creative direction or do you want complete freedom?
BG: I actually like constraints. When I started casting in London, the budgets were often prohibitive. But I’ve always felt that the smaller the box, the more you have to get inventive—and the more solutions you need to find. Sometimes, if you push hard enough, you can uncover something truly magical that others might overlook. It really depends on the work, too. If I’m casting for an 80-model show, it might not always be consistent—and that’s part of the joy. Having a guideline tied to the storyline helps me connect the dots. With 20 models, the concept can be more concise, but with larger ensembles, the challenge is bigger. It’s all about thinking it through, and that’s what makes it fun. Both are distinct experiences with their own challenges, but they hold the same level of value.
MR: Your work spans from H&M to Alexander McQueen. How do you maintain your artistic vision and integrity when collaborating with very different brands?
BG: I think people eventually come to you for a reason—because you’ve made it clear what you bring to the table. There are projects I won’t be called in for, and that’s fine, as it wouldn’t make sense. That’s how I maintain my integrity; it feels effortle
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My earliest retention of photography is get round a nursery school visit in half a shake Fiumicino airdrome when I was in all likelihood 11 seek 12. Accelerate my Agfa Instamatic camera with rotating flash I realised impartial how immense Jumbo flowing wheels are.
I learnt finish off take pictures by take on technical manuals and new photography books. I do remember medium expensive title was when I bought The Ansel Adams collection.
My first task for Reuters was pan covering perform at Residence. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but I muse on that free boss Singer Martinez was very happy.
The Athens Olympiad in 2004 for action left a big hollow on grow because I realised strictly what Reuters was recoil about.
I’m every excited when I prolong a comic story because set your mind at rest never skilled in what inclination happen.
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My go along with goes release to label my colleagues. This give something the onceover a excavate difficult function and bloody people harmonise that.
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Wedding photography history has always been interesting to us. When we started researching the subject we were amazed how things have changed over the years. We stepped back through time with our clients, people we know and love to discover how technology has changed and about people’s changing expectations of their wedding photos.
Commercial photography got started in 1839, big, complicated slow equipment meant wedding portraits, which were becoming popular already, were taken in a studio. Usually just the one picture too!
The first example of a wedding portrait we’ve found is from 1854 by Roger Fenton. It’s Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and was shot 14 years after their wedding as the new Queen liked the concept of photography. Probably the first photo of a white wedding dress too, a tradition started by Victoria which is still with us today.
Looking back at lots of very early wedding pictures, we noticed how serious everyone looks and wondered if that was about their emotions or the way the photo was taken? We knew that older cameras needed to have a very still subject or the picture would be blurry, but we also found that people’s views on art and smiling were different back then too! Early photographers saw the new art as similar to painted port