ROBERTO DI PATRIZI
Railway Stations

Few years ago I chosed to move to the province. This is how my commuting life began. Railway station, an immense crossroad of individuals of all ethnicities and nationalities, has become my hunting ground. I believe that shooting is a way of deceiving Time for a moment and secretly caressing Eternity.
Being able to catch those small nuances of daily life that can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, this is the challenge. No man is an island? I don't think so! And every time I sail through these archipelagos of souls, I am enchanted by the variety of microclimates. I imagine myself going through them with a submarine. My camera is the periscope. With every photo I take, I steal a frame from the hypothetical movie I'm shooting in my mind. How many main characters in thousands of screenplays for millions of movies that I will never see!
Unlike some other streephers, I do not search for the photos that I take. The shots come to meet me as I walk to go to work. It is serendipity.

Author
Born in 1964, I started photography in October 2010, when Donatella, my wife, gave me a digital camera as a gift for my birthday. I always shyly loved it, even though I was born a musician—I played guitar in bars and performed as a street singer.
At the age of 35, I started working on a TV channel firstly as a musical entertainer, then as a broadcast technician, and later as a sound engineer. There, I also came in touch with computer graphics, and I really fell in love with it! This work experience lasted 13 years. Then, I enrolled in a master’s degree for General 3D Artist, which gave me rudiments of photography, even with practical sessions. After the master's program, I wanted to deepen the theme with a photography course. To get here I took the roundabout way. I've never liked shortcuts. Often, the beauty of a journey is not only the location to be reached, but also, and above all, the road you take to get there.

Website
www.robertodipatrizi.com

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