Francesco Sambati
Francesco Sambati
My name is Francesco Sambati and I come from Lecce, a small city in southern Italy, more precisely in the region called Puglia.
Honestly I can not give a definition of my style and to tell the truth, I do not know if I can say I have reached my style. Indeed, I think my biggest defect is that of photographing with little
discipline, risking to create a jumble of photos aesthetically too
unrelated to each other, but for me it is more important the mood in the
picture (I think I am more coherent in this aspect ), rather than
aesthetics. Despite this, when I look at my photos together, I feel like I'm putting
together pieces of a puzzle that I do not know the final image of. For
now, I can not help but keep putting these melancholy pieces together.
What I love about photography is the immediacy of language and that even
if a picture means something specific, a person can see everything or
the opposite of everything. For this reason I do not like giving titles
to photos or projects. I prefer photography that relies on emotions, on
the undefined and the unsaid rather than on having to tell something, in
fact I think I'm the most distant thing from being a storyteller.
Specifying that I am a self-taught photographer, I have only two
machines: a Fuji X100t with fixed optics for digital photos and a
Polaroid Sx 70 for my Polaroids. Even with regard to post production, I
do not use it massively, it is reduced to a minimum and I always try to
make a good picture at the start.