Interview with Fernando Grilli | A Visual Storyteller & Film Noir Enthusiast

School of Photography and Film in Santa Fe, Argentina.

I really don't remember. It must have been when I was 5 or 6 years old, with an old Gevaert camera.

Sony a7rII and a7rIV. Lens: Zeiss 85mm-1.4, Minolta 20mm-2.8, Sony 50mm Macro, Sigma 70-200 and 150-600, 7Artisans 35mm-0,95, and various handmade lenses and filters found at flea markets.

I always look for the surprise that produces emotions that abstract me from reality and always seek to create an alternative reality. I think I am the antipode of the journalistic photographer.

When I am told that my photographs resemble movie scenes, as I am passionate about the films of the French cinema noir.

In the reality of society or of our daily world, which I consider very traumatic, or in stories of people and places, or also in periods of Art and in works of Great Masters.

Search, Emotion, and Delivery.

Each recognition received implies a greater commitment and self-improvement to achieve new works that manage to move me and move people so that, in this way, we can reflect on what we can still change about ourselves and our world.

It is a photograph taken inside an abandoned chocolate factory in Brazil. It is part of an unpublished project. In the work, there is a dialogue between lines, light-darkness, and brightness that create an apparent chaos that takes us on a visual journey accompanied by soft textures that sail in a sea of greenish and rust-brown tones.

I gained greater visibility and recognition.

Man Ray, Ansel Adams, and Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

The advice my father gave me: explore more and study what you need to look for what you don't know yet.

Let him study what it takes to make the camera his tool & weapon and immerse himself in the search for moving images. Let him explore the countless possibilities offered by editing tools.

Search for excitement. Not to lose the joy, and sometimes the anguish, of making the magic click. To be connected with the new technological trends. Investigate what the new great photographers are giving us. Do not lose the capacity for wonder and think about what we can do for our species and our planet.Search for excitement. Not to lose the joy, and sometimes the anguish, of making the magic click. To be connected with the new technological trends. Investigate what the new great photographers are giving us. Do not lose the capacity for wonder and think about what we can do for our species and our planet.

It is necessary to be always connected with the new ways of science and attentive to the creations that we can capture and adapt to make our photographs.

I would like to thank the authorities and the judges of this prestigious event for the opportunity we photographers have to show our work.