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Daniele Bricca: “Today, spreading a message with photography is difficult, because we are inundated with images”

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Daniele Bricca was born in Città di Castello in 1984. Photography has been his passion since he was a boy and, very soon, he understood that through this medium you can do much more than immortalize moments of joy and fun. «For me, photography is communication, it is the need to tell». Since 2013 he has been a member of the Centro Fotografico Tifernate.

Hello Daniele and welcome to Aboutumbria! I read that photography has been your passion since you were a boy. Do you remember how this interest developed?

Hello and thank you for your interest. Yes, it’s true, photography has been my passion since I was a boy but it has been part of my life since I was a child. This is thanks to my father and his film camera, which accompanied us on every trip, in every event but also on a simple picnic with friends. I can therefore say that everything started as a game. Looking at the reality that surrounded me through the lens was precisely a beautiful game to play with my father. It stimulated my creativity and my imagination. Then I grew up and realized that this powerful medium goes beyond simply immortalizing a moment of fun, discovering photography as a true means of expression. Much more subtle than words but much more powerful.

Foto di Daniele Bricca

You created the photographic exhibition “Umbria Jazz, Perugia in movement” – visible until September 28 at the Astrozombie Tattoo Culture in Città di Castello – paying homage to the Umbrian capital during the jazz festival. What prompted you to choose this period and can you tell us how this exhibition was born?

Perugia, after the city where I live, is the place I frequent and have frequented the most, consequently the place that, over the years, I have photographed the most. I therefore wanted to pay homage to it by choosing the period of the year in which the Umbrian capital is an explosion of colors, lights and sounds, coming from every part of the world. However, I chose to do it in a particular way. I did not want to stop a single instant as we are used to thinking of photography which, obviously, is something static. The static nature of photography is certainly one of its merits, but sometimes it can also be a limit. In any photography course the first thing they teach is how to obtain still images and motion blur represents a rather banal mistake. I was walking under the stage in Piazza IV Novembre, among the street artists in Via della Viola rather than in Corso Vannucci with the intention of not creating a static image. I wanted moving images, to try to convey the engaging rhythms of those days. All this always with a detail, more or less visible, of the city. Then, however, like many other times, these photos remained in a drawer. Or to be more precise, in a hard disk. Until my brother asked me if I had something to exhibit at his studio, Astrozombie Tattoo Culture. I had no doubts about what project to exhibit. I do not hide the fact that now I hope to be able to bring this photographic exhibition to Perugia, the city where it all began.

I read what you wrote “For me, photography is communication, it is the need to tell. It is a fundamental expressive tool”. How can photography, in your opinion, convey a message?

Photography can act as a vehicle because visual communication is immediate. Our brain processes what is in front of it and transforms it into emotions. Today, spreading a message through photography is a difficult task, because we are inundated with images. A difficult task, but certainly not impossible. I have always tried, or at least tried, to tell stories through photographs. Many individual photos that must be able to communicate a central starting idea.

 

Foto di Daniele Bricca

What advice would you give to a young person who wants to enter the world of photography?

Today, taking a photograph has become one of the easiest things in the world. Easy in the sense that we can take photographs at any time and with almost any means. It is much less easy to be able to express ourselves through a photograph. Having made this brief introduction, let’s move on to the advice. First of all, take a course to learn how to use the camera and how to manage all its functions. Once you have acquired a certain mastery of the instrument, it can be easier to have greater freedom of expression. And then there is the most important step, that of attending any photography club, any association of photographers. This is because comparing yourself with others, putting yourself on the line, showing shots that in other cases would have remained hidden, helps you grow and stimulates you to move forward.

Let’s conclude with a ritual question: I would like to ask you for a word that for you represents the union between your art and Umbria.

Reflection. I have repeated many times that for me photography is communicating, telling the observer something and leading him to reflect on a certain topic. And what better place than our beautiful region, in the middle of the green hills or in a small medieval village for those who want to find peace, meditate and reflect?

 

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