Biography
of Marco D'Ottavi:
Born in 1963m the light has always been a part of my life,
since I had to make decisions about my school, a technical
one, and later with the opportunities offered from the job,
that began when I was only 16 years old. I judge it as a great
fortune that I have been able, since the beginning, to combine
my love for the light with my job: the theatre, first of all!
The opportunities that one has in illuminating a stage, a
show, confronting yourself with the directors before and the
public later, the feelings that you can convey to the spectator....
The light in order to exalt the most beautiful moments, the
most dramatic ones, in order to exemplify the lightness of
a classic dance, or to emphasize the force of a "hard
rock" band...
Here, I have been allowed to do it for many years. And with
people who represent or have represented the performing arts
in Italy and abroad, actors, directors and directors of the
photography. From Adriana Asti to Valeria Moriconi, from Andrea
Camilleri to Franco Zeffirelli, Franco Ferrari to Krzysztof
Zanussi, Toquinho to the “Stadio”, just to enumerate
some of the artists for which I have worked.
Despite not deserving it I have been allowed to communicate
part of my experiences to young people who are taking their
first steps in this wonderful world, teaching the technology
of the lighting system of show in some professional courses.
The
photography, the art of the light, has always gone with
me, it has reflected much of my life and has always been
with me.
With my shots I wish "to yield my emotions": to
try to provoke in who looks at one of my photos, at least
an infinitesimal part of the feelings that I have felt in
the moment when the picture was taken.
That is why I commit myself so little to the "postproduction".
I try to compose my photo "in my camera", leaving
to the computer very little to do, with rare exceptions.
The “post-production” that I usually carry out,
it is limited to what it could be made (and it was made)
in darkroom. And it is also for this, that besides the photos
of my travels and the places that I visit with my motorcycle
or with my 4X4 vehicle together with my friends, or to the
photos of theatrical performances or of dance that have
particularly fascinated me, an important part of my job
is dedicated to the photos of feminine nude figures. |
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The
view of the artist
The
nudity of a woman, understood not only as eroticism, even
if sex represents for me a basic concept, is a way to represent
a woman in all her features, that I do not limit to the
aesthetic taste dictated by the trends of the age in which
alive: the beauty models have been changing in the course
of the years and I believe they will be still modified in
the future. The pictures of the nudity of a woman that I
desperately try to produce is not never usual, expected
or, worse, disheartening for the Women who let themselves
being. And "my Women" just for this reason are
not necessarily models. They are managers, or shop-girls;
they are students or housewives: Women that have in the
eyes the "light", and they have a little bit of
healthy exhibitionism (that is a gift, from my point of
view) Women, who want to enjoy their lives, to show themselves,
to pride their selves.
I
repeat: I think it is unfair and annoying to hear people
speaking of photo of naked “romantic" or "pure",
especially among my colleagues: I think it is like hiding
oneself behind a glass wall, which is too much transparent.
The photos of naked women are always sensual, and hide too
much obvious erotic charge, that often (not with me, I hope)
end up in pornography, a genre that I do not condemn at
all but that I think little useful.
I, when trying to describe my photos, never define them
romantic and pure. They are not virgin-like at all, if not
very rarely. And I don’t think is corrected to define
in this way the Women who have posed and will pose for me.
Their naked bodies, or dressed in a single light, are without
doubt sensual, sometimes erotic, sometimes maternal, raw,
or with strong contrasts.
And if observing my photos of nude woman figures, you are
not able to perceive these feelings, I will be the only
one guilty, I beg your pardon.
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