Simone Guidarelli

I could start telling you where it all begins. In Cagli, a small town in the center of the Marche, where I grew up listening to and watching others. I watched them as someone watches cars before crossing the street, with extreme tension, surprise, curiosity. I met wonderful faces that told me stories more exciting than any cartoon or movie.

It’s difficult to explain my work because it brings together personal experiences, encounters, visions, a look at the evolution of taste, fashion, customs, and also memories that I try to transfer into an image. I could tell you about the first time I shot with David Bailey, Patrick Demarchelier, Greg Lotus, Koto Bolofo, about the almost 50 covers of Vanity Fair and Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour Italia, or a thousand funny or tiring stories happened with the many celebrities with whom I work or have worked…
But I could also tell you how much I love contemporary dance, how I could watch the movement of a dress or the colored lights of a Christmas tree for hours.

But actually I would like to talk not about the past but about the future, about what I would like to do, about the desire to discover new talents, new photographers, designers, artists with whom to grow together for this project. Our is a group work where if the group works it wins.

So I would like this space to become not only a place to disseminate and enhance my work, but also a container where you can give voice to new emerging and their creativity. I would like to tell you a little about me, my world, my imagination and as I always say “Fill your eyes with as many images as possible. All as if they were the last.”

Simone Guidarelli