Authors: Ben Ruhe
Date Submitted: May 31, 2007
Article Type: Journal

After almost 20 years of KAP and more than 6,000 images taken during that period, Andrea Casalboni, of Ravenna, Italy, remains partially unreconstructed. He uses digital for big format prints, but rejects the help of radio-controlled video in choosing when to shoot because he likes to imagine the shot he is making. “I have more feel for the subject that way,” he says. “My experience allows me to put the camera on the right point, while not disturbing the subject. KAP is all about having a close feeling, an affinity, with the subject.” Casalboni has traveled and exhibited widely. He has won many prizes. He feels that 70 percent of KAP is nature and that 30 percent is the art contributed by the photographer. “Good photos are not easy to obtain,” he emphasizes. ”It takes many shots to get one good one.” His current focus is shadows, which are always ephemeral. Either the subject moves or the sun does. A shadow image can never, ever be exactly repeated, he notes.

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