Fabio Balestra
Street Photographer
Go on the street and shot my
friends, this is the only way
My name is Fabio Balestra, born in 1968 happily married. I live in a small village in Liguria - Santo Stefano al Mare IM in the western area, near the French border. Self-taught, I started shooting in 1986, then in 1992 I stopped suddenly. Until 2013, when I fell in love with a second-hand Fuji X100, I resumed taking photographs and since then I have not stopped.
For me street photography is an instinct, an attitude that takes you among people to stop time, a moment, a grimace or an important event. But always with the spirit of adventure and curiosity, nothing prepared, no project, only me and my camera and the life that surrounds me. Because it's on the street that everything happens, and I'm there, among the people, almost invisible and I do the only thing I can do.
Shot mainly in black and white on the streets of my country, in shops and bars or in the surrounding area, a photograph at Km 0. Shooting with old film cameras and Fuji X System. There is no way to do street, only the street exists.
WOMEN
Black & White
There is no way to do street, only the street exists.
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