JONATHAN CHERRY: What got you started with photography?

FABRIZIO ALBERTINI: During my years of study in Directing and Production, at the International Academy of Lugano, I’ve got the opportunity to compare myself with other audiovisual disciplines. Among all other photography and editing gave me a way to experiment. For me taking pictures is a necessity to accrue my eye. It’s an immediate way to approach that, unlike the movie idea, can give me the possibility to make by myself.

JC: Any emerging artists inspiring you at the moment?

FA: Now I don’t know enough photographers to have one favourite in particular. I take inspiration starting by aesthetic concepts, instinct, way to look and to shoot pics. Sometimes I take inspiration starting from a single pics made by one photographer. Among the emerging artists I’m really impressed from Daniel Shea. He’s amazing.

JC: What is the project Handball all about?

FA: Handball is a series of pics shot in a single game court in New York. Geometries, musculature, players and the game play. I found in the black & white film the ideal support for describe this space full of light. Handball is a “physical documentary” where the point of view moves inside the playground. During the game. Into the game.

JC: Where are you currently living and how is it shaping you?

FA: I live in Italy, in Cannobio, a little town on Lake Maggiore. Really close to the Swiss border. Lakes and Mountains; that’s my landscape. I’ve set all my audiovisual works here and I think that, in a way, has trained me to a certain sensibilty. For example I’m fascinated by the idea to taking pics in peripheral spots, with anyone or very few people. 

JC: One piece of advice to recent photography graduates?

FA: I don’t know really. I’m not graduated in photography. The advice that I can try to give it’s to work with a consistent glance. Working on a series, a concept. An idea of series, documentary, gallery who talk about a very precise way to look.

JC: Any big plans for 2012?

FA: Many hopes! I hope to find a producer who wants to invest energy in my ideas of audiovisual projects. For what concern photography I hope to complete projects I’m working on right now. I hope to find a place where I can show these projects. A way to promote these works. And I think that join myself to a photo collective would be great.

JC: Favourite tree?

FA: Pine at the moment.