Maria Maglionico
My name is Maria Maglionico and I come from Fasano, a village in the Puglia region, Italy. I started taking pictures in my university period in Lecce, probably
because this was the only way I could find to express things I feel
without using words. My style of photography draws inspiration from artists like Nan Goldin, Guy Bourdin, Nobuyoshi Araki and Todd Hido.
What I try to do with photography is not specifically telling a story,
but more reproducing a sensation, a mood, a vision, a visual impression. I could compare my idea of photography with the exact feeling you could
have when you listen to a far melody which sounds familiar but you never
heard before. I normally prefer taking pictures of models I personally know in order
to establish an empathic link with them, but I do not neglect taking
pictures without a living subject (lights, objects, buildings) as long
as they work fine as a mirror of my personal view. I normally shoot with
a digital Canon, an old analog Olympus camera and, sometimes, with a
Polaroid.
