CHIARA SALANDIN ARCADIPANE

I’m 33 and I started taking photos in my early twenties, at that time I had a Konica TC 35mm,
It was fun for me to take pictures of friends and relatives.
I gave up photography for several years and I re-discovered my love for this art while living in London and wondering through contemporary art exhibitions and galleries.

Back in Italy I get in touch with my first digital camera, a Contax Tvs and the passion grew up more and more.
Three years ago I bought my Fujii FinePix F700 and then a Canon Eos 400 D.
I can’t simply stop taking photographs, I think it’s a way to capture what is going on around me every day.
I haven’t got a particular subject, I like to find those small details of everyday life and that, often, we don’t notice.
To photograph is, for, me a way to stay deeply in touch with myself and to communicate to people, a sort of therapy, a way to get into things.

My shots are mainly in Black and White, this because, in my opinion, BW can convey much more than colour, it gets through to people, to their feelings, to their memories.