Oct 26 | 2020
After four months of social distancing, meeting Natasha was the first time I had the opportunity to get back to shoot and make something personal without boundaries. It was like starting to breathe again, having the camera in my hands and shooting to express myself freely ... We did not have timing rules or schedules to follow, we let ourselves be guided by the sunlight, chatting between a change of outfit and a cigarette, finding agreement on the mood of that day.
Taking these shots over all was a bit like coming out of a cage in which in recent times I think I've been locked up independently. I hadn't realized something personal and spontaneous for a long time because once again I felt stalled between pursuing one path rather than another (artistically speaking), but talking to Natasha, to find her being so bright and overwhelming (just a few days before the service), somehow inspired me and pushed me to react differently. I have to say that I challenged her somehow while we were shooting, I pushed her a little over a limit that she felt too, for someone it may be too much makeup or too little, to be naked rather than dressed, in this case it was a question of smiling , and it was the best thing that could have happened. We often refrain from going beyond the limit, whatever it is and sometimes without realizing that it is only our mental limit and not concrete and that if only we dared to overcome it with a pinch of tenacity we could discover something that we had previously denied ourselves to know.