Martina Ruffini
MARTINA RUFFINI: “I would like to create a completely personal project that talks about me 100% that makes me move to tears”
What are your favorite songs you play in your car/at work/bathroom/kitchen right now? : Kovacs - My Love
Who are you? Describe yourself in a few words.: I am an eternal dreamer, who still lives in fairy tales and I like to close in my world when I shoot and create stories.
Any plans for the future you would like to talk about ?: I would like to create a completely personal project that talks about me 100% that makes me move to tears, that helps me to express what I have inside that sometimes I have not said in character. experience abroad, perhaps in a large European city like London that I have in my heart for years.
Where do you come from? Give us details: I am from Tuscany, Italy
What move you in this adventure/journey?: Curiosity, desire to travel, to meet new people, to daydream, and above all to express myself through others.
Is it important to have the support of your loved ones, family, friends?: I would say fundamental, you don't need many people who support you but you just need to find a single person who truly believes in you, but in the first place, it is you who must believe in yourself.
What are you the proudest of?: The biggest satisfaction I've received lately is being recognized as one of the 30 Rising Stars of wedding photography in 2021
What kind of jobs did you have before your career took off?: I have always worked in the kitchen, cooking desserts, which however I keep as a personal passion.
If you could interview a creative person (past or present), who would that person be? Please explain your choice.: Uh what a good question ... Well, surely my choice would be about a woman. I would love to be able to interview Marilyn Monroe, a strong but at the same time very fragile figure, a bit like me. An icon for me ..
Do you think that creativity involves putting your heart and soul into your work?: Absolutely yes, I couldn't do this job if I didn't love it so much.
“Creativity for me is starting from an idea but having a completely different result, a result that surprises the customer but also myself”
What in your personal life has influenced you to choose your career?: I would say that I have always loved art, especially drawing, when I was in high school my art teacher always told me what an artist was doing in high school, and he was probably right. but it was love right away.
What is creativity to you? Do you consider yourself to be creative? Why or why not?: Creativity for me is starting from an idea but having a completely different result, a result that surprises the customer but also myself: letting yourself be guided by emotions, instinct from the moment, and above all by who you are in front of.
If you had the chance to live during a different artistic movement other than now, which one would you choose?: I would certainly choose the end of the 19th century for the fashion, the atmosphere, or the 60s for the renewal, the conquests of women, the struggles to get something.
If you had to start over, would you choose a different path in your career?: No, my studies will probably change, I will devote myself to the cinema, to the study of light and composition, to art in general.
Do you believe in destiny?: Absolutely yes, I believe that everything that happens is because it has to happen.
Do you think that you would be able to teach what you do?: Yes I'd really like it. I think I'd like to express myself, pass on the passion I have for what I do, and bring my vision to others.
What inspires you on a daily basis?: Anything inspires me, a gloomy day, a song, the cinema, my great source of inspiration, a song, a particular moment in my life. Anything can be inspirational.
Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work? Explain.: There is always a meaning in what I shoot, there is myself inside my photographs, especially in personal projects. Introverted people like me can use photography as an outlet and have their say.
What made you decide to follow a creative career choice (though possibly risky) rather than something more stable?: The ambition, and the desire to create something of my own.
If you only had 24 hours to live, how would you spend your day?: Spend the money! Also because 24 would be few to travel if I had more time I would travel and visit places I have never seen before.
After these years of working on your craft, do you still feel the joy to do what you do?: If I was bored or if I thought about what I do I would stop, so today I deeply love my work, even if I like to evolve and not stay still.
How do you deal with creativity blocks?: Not shooting, if I can, I stop and do not photograph anything.
Is there a particular place where you feel most creative?: I love shooting indoors so a villa, with its lights and shadows, is my natural environment.
Are you enjoying this life?: I would like to use my work to travel more and visit the world.
Who would you like to read from (Can you put me in touch with this person?)?: Certainly my two grandmothers, especially the paternal one, a second mother for me.
What would be your question to this person?:If she would have imagined seeing me like this now, she has missed some fundamental steps in my life.
If you could ask yourself a question, what would it be?: What would you like for your future?
And your answer would be ?: Realize myself even more in my work, and be known as well as in Italy, worldwide. You have to dream big :)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
DOB : 28-02-1982
LOCATION: TUSCANY, ITALY
OCCUPATION: WEDDING, BRAND AND SPORT PHOTOGRAPHER
Copyright : AUTO PORTRAIT
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