Federico Caponi / Italy
Photo location: Poland
“I was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1968. I studied Philosophy at the Univeristy of Florence and got a degree in Aestethics with an essay on Samuel Beckett. I started taking pictures when I was 10 and was trained in black and white and darkroom process by my father, a serigrapher. I took my first professional photo assignment in 1998 as stage photographer for the Teatro di Politeama di Cascina. Since then I have been working as stage photographer for Italian and foreigner theatres, still photographer for TV and movie production. Today I mostly shoot commercial photography for advertising, editorial and magazines. I stiil do all my personal and street photography with film cameras, using from 35mm to 4×5”and pinhole cameras. I live between Florence, Italy and Warsaw, Poland where in 2008 my daughter was born. Today I have my own studio in Warsaw and I cooperate with graphics’ studios in Poland.”