ANDREA, Photographer and storyteller
Welcome to Easy Travel hosting. Andrea, photographer and traveler. Your photos have a particular intensity, both as regards the portraits and the panoramas. You would talk to us about you and how your site was born?
They are a Travel photographer and Travel Storyteller. I think I have become by vocation, For a strong need to travel and share my experiences. I started because my life was tight, The daily habits suffocated me and I felt I became less and less the person I dreamed of being.
One day, I decided to say yes to an invitation that thrilled me and frightened at the same time and my life changed forever. The Capodarco Foundation asked me to go to Ecuador to photograph the reality of an orphanage, In addition to helping some areas of the structure reconstruct. At the time I was a young screenwriter with a film in the hands that everyone wanted to produce but that nobody had the funds to make…
My life revolved around the idea of building a solid career, emerge and establish me. In conclusion, that's not what we all want, be successful people? Ecuador has upset me. He swept my ego away, Vanagloriosi projects, the selfishness that is hiding behind. When I went back to Italy, I had only the looks of the children I had known in mind.
I will never forget the sadness that I tried leaving that group of marbles so lively and joyful despite the righteities of life they face every day. I remember that I had not been able to greet a child before getting on the bus he would bring me back to Rome, I had looked for it but I hadn't found it. While I moved away from the orphanage, I saw her chasing the bus with tears in your eyes to greet me one last time. He shouted my name and greeted with the hand. At that moment I understood that to change the world, we need to form a bond between the people who live there. Rationality will not save us, but the heart. And this is still what I look for when I leave for a new trip.
I don't wonder so much what architectural or landscape beauties I will see, but who I will be lucky enough to meet and how it will change my vision of things.
Ecuador gave me a strong motivation, but only many years later did I have the courage to bare myself and share my photographs and stories on the web. I was in Danakil, in Ethiopia. It is a desert depression, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees: it has been called the most inhospitable place in the world.
The people who live there are very tenacious and know how to survive anything. I felt the need to create a site that would tell this reality and I did it using the viraggi of the colors of the Hollywood films. Epic photos were found, impressive, and I wanted to return them to my friends.
Many of them asked me to tell something more about my photos and a travel storytelling blog was born, which is not the classic travel blog because in addition to the information on the places I visit, the narration of my experience is central. Luck wanted photography magazines to be interested in me, publishing my photos and stories.
I interpreted it as a sign of life that this was the right path to follow.
Let's talk about travel: The routes you have followed are not among the most common but are decidedly fascinating and interesting. Myanmar, Senegal, Uzbekistan and others. What elements are looking for on a journey?
When I travel, I am not looking for comfortable locations, I instead like to always go beyond my comfort zone. This led me to camp in Kazakhstan in the Mangystau, which is one of the most uninhabited deserts in the world, without being able to wash me for days and without a bathroom available; But he also took me to China, towards whose culture I felt a profound distrust that I wanted to shake off.
Traveling is also a way to win my shyness and it is a very effective cure, because in every part of the world people welcomed me. I have always found so much hospitality, especially where people have less. It's a cliché, but it's true!
If of all your shots you could only save one, what it would be and why? What's the story behind it??
You're asking too much of me! Perhaps, if I really had to, I would choose a photo of a child I met in China, in the Tibetan provinces. I was visiting a very small Buddhist monastery lost in the Ganja grasslands, in Gansu.
Outside the temple, where monks fashioned candles from yak butter, some children were playing with each other. I stopped to look at them and they welcomed me as if I were one of the group.
At one point, they disappeared behind the monastery, to return a few minutes later with some wild flowers for me. They put themselves in line and they have them with great smiles. A gesture of friendship that moved me.
What do you do to make your travels more ecological?
There is a saying dear to travelers who reads “Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints ". It is very important for me: I never leave waste to my passage and do not take sand samples, stones, shells.
In the Mangystau desert there are fossils everywhere. Millions of years ago, The area was submerged by an ocean. That would happen if everyone took a shark tooth or a shell as a memory? I cannot think of the damage that the area would suffer if mass tourism developed there. And I have reiterated this several times in every post on my blog: don't go to Mangystau if you want to preserve it.
Another aspect that I consider "ecological" concerns people's psychology. It is important to have respect for those you meet: I never force my hand to take a photo. If the person I want to portray does not want to be disturbed, I never insist. I apologize and walk away. I hate tourists who harass locals, and I believe that the emotional discomfort they generate is a form of pollution in all respects.
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