Alfredo is another photographer we’ ve been following for some time on social media. His mix of fashion photography, black and white style and video always jumps off our news feed. He’ s based in Turin Italy and also works in New York...
Alfredo tell us about your model photography, are you primarily shooting models for an agency, personal work or for editorials?
It’ s me to thank you for your kind request of being part of your first issue. I’ m a professional photographer and I’ m a fashion, glamour, portrait, commercial, event photographer and I’ m freelance. I collaborate with models / actors and all my works in the last years are paid fashion works or free test to promote the people I collaborate with to find new works via the images of the portfolio we build( No personal works as far as now but I hope to have time in the future for more photo experiments).
You also create a lot of excellent videos for models, are these for their portfolios?
The videos are paid works or they are tests business oriented to get new paid gigs and increase value and visibility of models.
You also cover fashion events, is this for magazine or online sites?
I also cover fashion events only if it’ s a paid work. It can happen to be published in magazines or online sites.
You shoot quite a bit of black and white video, are these wanted by models / agencies?
Black and white videos help in my opinion to focus more on the subject and is welcome by model agencies and brands.
Have you“ discovered” any model talent? What I mean is you hear of photographers or magazine publishers often bumping into someone during a regular day, handing over a business card and next thing he or she is getting regular modelling work..
I’ ve discovered many model talent and now some of them are important actor / actresses( TV and movies more than just modelling for important brands) both in Italy and USA. I’ m a photographer, filmmaker and a model scout so it’ s part of my role and work.
Describe a typical shoot for us, like the one you did with the model, Alice Veglio, what goes into a shoot like that? Do you collaborate with a make up artist, stylist etc or is it just you two working on an idea?
I try to find online new talents and we collaborate. I guide the model to express herself better and in my opinion a good photographer is the one who interacts with the subject and try to make him / her act in front of the camera and feel comfortable and self confident and“ tell a story“ rather than using a lot of post production( I’ m a model trainer too). Make up artist are welcome and important as well as stylists etc... The goal is to create a portfolio to find new works together.
The Tin Carena Jewellery shoot featuring Elena Rotari is like a short story, same with the Angelique- Fashion short film, tell us about these short films and do you combine stills with these projects or are they separate?
Tin Carena, Maevanika, Stefania P. etc.. are new brands, great brands to be promoted both with stills and videos and some of the short films are selected by Berlin Fashion Film Festival too.
What’ s your favourite place to shoot? What location?
Outdoor and indoor locations are good. There is Beauty everywhere. I love my city Torino( close to Milan) as well as New York where I’ ve important collaborations with producers and photographers and filmmakers also involved in New York fashion week
Do you have 3 tips you can share for those photographers who’ d like to do get into fashion?
Try to experiment but ask to be paid. Don’ t believe to people that say that they can live just with fashion photography( Just a few worldwide can be just fashion photographers and make enough money). Combine fashion photography with glamour photography, street, events, commercial, senior / corporate portrait photography etc.. and you can have a good result to live just with photography works.
Finally where can readers go to find out more about your photography?
In a few months www. benincasaproductions. com will be my official website as far as now“ Alfredo Benincasa photography” and“ benincasa productions” Facebook pages. thank You!
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. benincasaproductions. com www. facebook. com / alfredobenincasaphotography www. facebook. com / benincasaproductions
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