Alessandro
Dal Buoni is one of these photographers that leap us up by a supreme
aesthetic. One of these natural born artists that make you want to see
realness in a new way…
Born in Italy and currently based in London, his collaborations include DIOR HOMME and KRISVANASSCHE.
We chose to show a few of his latest images for the KRISVANASSCHE-LINDA
FARROW collaboration… The first line of the KRISVANASSCHE sunglasses.
Alessandro kindly answered a few questions…
GUSMEN: Tell us how it all started…
ADB:
I have always loved taking pictures. I was using my mom’s snap camera.
Then during a trip to Paris with my friends that camera accidentally
fell into the Seine. So for my birthday, my mother gave me my first 35mm
camera. Many years later, right after finishing the MA in Photography
at the University of Westminster, I wrote a letter to Paolo Roversi, his
office called me, and I went to Paris to meet him and assisted him a
few times. It was magical and enlightening. Around the same time I
published my first image, styled by Riccardo Tisci.
That’s how it all started.
GUSMEN:
We are obsessed by the sharpness of your photographs. Does it mean
something in particular or is it to ensure some kind of legibility?
ADB:
It’s just the way I see things, my aesthetic. I’m not obsessed with the
technical side of photography. I like clarity, and purity, and always
aim for the essential and avoid the superfluous.
GUSMEN: Where do you look at for inspiration?
ADB:
Films (Antonioni, Tarkovsky). Modern Dance (Pina Bausch, Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui). Youth movements (anything from boy scouts to goths). And the
essential simplicity of certain photographers like Frantisek Drtikol,
George Platt Lynes and Robert Mapplethorpe.
GUSMEN: How would you define the KRISVANASSCHE style?
ADB: Pure, honest, coherent.
GUSMEN: Where do you see yourself as from now?
ADB: Enjoying each moment, and following my instinct.
Written by: Yannis Giotakos on April 23, 2012.
GUSMEN
