Lifestyle portrait of Italian wedding photographer Pietro Cardile
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Anna Venuto
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Pietro Cardile

Studio Cardile | Messina, Sicily Wedding Photographer

EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURES AUTHENTIC EMOTIONS AND TELLS STORIES

I was born in 1971, between a chemical-developing vat and a pile of Ilford paper. My father, a photographer since the 60s, always says that it was a problem for him to take my mother to the hospital, as she had just started developing 10 rolls of roll, so I had to wait 20 minutes longer to be born….! And at the age of 5, while my peers were playing with Big Jim, I amused myself by mixing the prints in the fixative and then hanging them up to dry. In short, the road had been traced, and I found myself at the age of 16 having my first wedding! I stood shoulder to shoulder with my father for many years; thanks to him I understood the importance of making a married couple happy, the infinite responsibility of being the only one capable of making one day remembered forever! I had the inestimable good fortune to experience a historical period based on change, on both technological and social innovation, I concretely experienced the transition between the "good-natured unawareness" of customers about the value of the final product and the subsequent evolution of the same, younger, more aware of their tastes and needs, with precise requests and well-defined tastes. I went from the darkroom to the clearroom, from film to digital, from super 8 "film" to professional video, opportunities that few have ever experienced and which today make the difference. At the age of 11, guardian of my father's bags and car trunk; at 14 I was studying how to mount lights in the most varied locations, furthermore I had been advanced to the "prestigious rank" of camera loader; at 16 it was me who chose the films according to the needs, who set the type of light, environment, flash or mixed. Also at the age of 16, I began to deal with video shooting and editing; I fondly remember how much the equipment of the time made you feel inside a spaceship while you were working on it… I didn't know then that a Mac Pro would have solved so many problems… also because the Mac Pro didn't exist!!! At 21 I open my personal business: on the business cards the writing “Pietro Cardile Photographer” appears in plain sight… luckily even now, 25 years have passed! Many years, many studies, Academy of Photography in Milan, two successive years of work in that splendid city with unforgettable colleagues, specializations, internships, masters, workshops, study, the return to the beloved/hated Sicily, and more study and internships… maybe it will be like this forever!