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Hand-made and custom made top hats, masks, crowns, butterfly wings painting backdrops technique to get the smallest the details that are inspired by vintage noir films of the 30s and 40s. A lot of time and patience goes into every high-quality photograph taken by the talented Italian artist Giulia Valente.
We have asked Giulia about what the secret of producing her high-quality photography. Here's her account.
"I graduated from Padua University in disciplines of music, art and Theater in the year 2006. I've always been captivated to art. One of the things that I love most about being in Italy is that art is everywhere, so it's simple to get inspired.
My style can be defined as fine-art photography. I am able to see the continuity between painting and photography. In many ways photography is like painting's younger cousin. Photographs, not just paintings can be my most important source of inspiration when planning to shoot-retouch-and-retouch an upcoming project."
"Giovanni Gastel, the recent deceased Italian photographer, once said that it is necessary to throw away 10 000 good ideas before finding the best one. I try, in my own way to implement this method. In fact, I have a journal full of ideas, sketches, notes, and inspirations that are likely to be kept on paper for the rest of my life.
The primary step in making a decision on a project is planning. Pre-production is vital to decide that define the idea, then draw sketches, gather objects or props... It can be a long and stressful process due to the fact that photography of this type demands a great deal of focus and even an obsession in the finer details, those things that you may not immediately think about, but could make all the distinction."
What were the keys to making your caterpillar photographs?
"In the specific instance that I was working on for The Caterpillar Project, I tried to determine the characteristics that distinguish the person, which make him easily identifiable. These include the blue color and the hookah smokes, his wings when he turns into a butterfly. But in addition, the way he looks - somewhat conceited and arrogant. Then I tried to put all of these features in a cohesive manner, and combine them with the style and design I imagined.
On May 3, 2021 an exhibit of some of my works was launched in the Laboratorio Cardin(Padua, Italy). I am very excited and grateful because this is my first exhibition."
More of the artist's exquisite art photos, which are that are rooted in Italian and Flemish paintings of XV and XVI centuries, are available the images on Instagram and her Website.
