Elisa Angeletti

“I believe that in photography, as in everything that has to do with art, the most important thing is to have something to say.”

Intercru: Where are you from and where do you live and work now?

Elisa: I’m from Bologna, a city in Emilia-Romagna in the north of Italy. I live here and I’m studying Building Engineering and Architecture at the university

How did you first get started in photography?

I received my first camera, Nikon D3300, as a gift in 2017 from my parents.

It all started as a passion and a willingness to create good travel memories. Since I was a child, I have been lucky enough to explore different countries with my family and I have always loved looking at the shots of the places we visited together.

For the first two years I created content on my personal profile showing my passions, including traveling. I became particularly interested in portraits and began to experiment with myself creating my first self-portraits.

Last year, in 2019, I embarked on this new journey as a portrait photographer, asking girls and models to pose for my shots. In November I opened my professional profile on Instagram as @elisa_angeletti_ph, without many expectations, but with the desire to create and publish my content.

It was nice and totally unexpected to find other people who are passionate about photography and interested in seeing my projects!

And I’d say that’s it! I am photographing a lot without precluding any idea, so as to find my style and what satisfies me the most.

For you, what is the most important thing in photography?

I believe that in photography, as in everything that has to do with art, the most important thing is to have something to say. You can also structure a project starting from simple thoughts or emotions that you want to convey to the observer, but there must be an idea behind. It’s necessary and, at the same time, very difficult to be able to express a concept through an image.

What do you do to find creative inspiration?

Surely with the advent of technology it’s as easy as it is immediate to find sources of inspiration. Lately I find creativity by looking around carefully, paying attention to details that surround me, or looking at scenes from movies, or books with different eyes.

I’ve always had a visual mind (I’m a very visual learner) so I love to observe the works of great photographers to try to identify what intrigues me most about the single image.

What is the best photography advice you could give someone?

It isn’t easy to give a practical advice on photography because I think it’s very personal. What is fundamental, for me, is to get involved and not to underestimate any idea. Photography evolves with our thinking, so we have to keep experimenting and not get stuck with creativity.