Fabrizio Di Paolo

Freelance Fashion & Street Photography

Fabrizio Di Paolo, freelance fashion and street photographer, collaborates with newspapers, men’s fashion magazine and world renowned bloggers. Today one of the most followed Italian photographers of this fashion area on Instagram, especially during the events of Pitti Immagine Uomo.

If you ask me when and how I decided that I wanted to be a photographer I answer you that I believe destiny decided for me. When I was a child I always had an attraction for the camera. I still remember when at age of 3 running all over my house, taking pictures. Since then, things have not changed so much.
This is absolutely my dream job.

I consider myself a lucky person. Confucius said “Choose the job you love and you’ll never work, not even a day in your life”. I let myself be carried away by my instinct. When I shoot I enter a world of my own, where the photo that I will shoot it’s already etched in my mind. Everything is to capture precisely that moment.

On the day of my first show I was very happy and impressed by people’s appreciation of my work. Actually the thing I liked most was that everyone tried to “read” my pictures, everyone saw something different, different emotions coming up from my works. I thanked them for telling them that I would have appreciated every form of criticism because I’m convinced that it is a way of personal growth. Sometimes there is a single image whose compositional structure has such force and such wealth and the contents of which radiate so much out of it that this single picture is a whole story in itself.

The beauty of photography is that it gives you a way to take ideas and inspiration from anyone, no matter how famous. The list of the photographer I admire could be infinite but if I have to choose a name I would say Scott Schumann the one who is able to tell, through his camera, the largest fashion catwalk: everyday life.