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Writing has never been my best (I remember the five on themes from high school!)
But, when, and only when I am saying there is the inspiration,
I have taken and are fascinated by the world of the word! 
My world, however, and fortunately, is the image, the one that many people can 
express with the pen or a keyboard of a computer, I try to do it with my own eyes! 

       

I began to capture images of the world around me at ten years.
Yes, the day of my communion, My aunt impassionate of photography gave me
a beautiful and shiny polaroid! The one that split the instant photos!
I am not telling you how much money spent on refills for photographing my family, my dolls,
my animals, plants in the garden of my mother ...
Then I knew that my dad when he was a little younger was a passionate
film, in fact, one day to my surprise (to twelve years), I discovered in the cellar
a Durst Enlarger with all the material for printing the black and white and a
Praktica REFLEX Photo camera with a 50 - 2.8 mm lens!
Mammamia! Not even the treasure of the most famous pirate, I would have done so blows!
From that moment I enjoyed whit the world of black and white ...
What I love much... especially now!
At that time I used an old camera that automatically set up
the 126 film, which seemed the humps of a camel and that was using the flash cube!
A cube that turned ... 4 sided, 4 photos and then threw himself to waste ... sigh!
My friends came to threaten me .... I was a little obsessed,
destroyed them, and perhaps a little too much with a flurry of shots photos!

Then ... darkness ... the passion for photography was replaced by the computer!
I was 14 years, I was in third year ... my choice for superior school, infact, was
Computer Science at F. Corni in Modena!
Even here I started with a small computer the Philips MSX .... that talked the BASIC language!

My god! as time has passed!

Once  graduated at high school, I started to work in the world of Chip! 
I have dealt assembling computers, installation of programs, networks, peripherals,        
the training of customers on Windows programs, access to peripherals 
for internetworking, a reality ... in short, beautiful, interesting, intriguing,        
still developing ... but cold! (but thanks to that now I can use the digital images
and playing with all that you can do with a photo and a computer ... 
... even though I am a lover of old film!) 
       

Meanwhile a series of coincidences and bad personal vicissitudes that
I want to forget, I came back into contact with the camera! 
I bought my first reflex of the new Nikon! 
(Still use Nikon equipment only) 
Then I started helping a well-known photographer and historian in
Sassuolo (Massimo - Fotonova) taking photos for weddings! 

A new and very interesting experience... I could photograph the joy of the people
in a day so beautiful for everyone! The rite of the ceremony: the times, moments, churches,
the ceremony itself, the excitement, after the ceremony: the wedding day, the faces, the love,
the complicity of two people who have chosen to live together ... and the relatives, friends,
jokes, children .... and all that can animate a so important day...
After a year of school as a “new entry” in Photo world...
... I decide to change my life!
Abandoned a good job of head of laboratory of computer science support
and upset my family!

At 27 years old, I open my first photographic studio and in the meantime
I enrolled at the University of Bologna in the Faculty of Science of Movement!
Um ... I know already what you think! "But what the two things match!"
Now you explain!
Since small, while the Photography and Computer impassioned my life, Sport accompanied me every day!
I did lots of sports competitions ... and still practice them. After the superior school
I wanted to enroll at the university, but the desire to make independent economic
and fatigue of studing on the books made me decide to work.
but the thought has always been present, and in four years I've Graduated!
Now working as a Personal Trainer, athletic
and coach volleyball also!

Returning to the photo, in 2000 I opened this photographic studio in society,
with a person, that of which I have trusted immediately, then he have combined all the colors to me!
The work with such a term of person lasted four years.
Four years of subjugation and discussion to enforce my photo,
humiliation to the people to make me switch from incompetent, and more and more!
I could not accept it anymore!

But as they say: from a badly became a good thing!

And was a well wellness (poetic license).
I became a businesswoman of myself! No one close my photography to into the cage!
Nobody will give me the most absurd orders, and will humiliate me because of jealousy!
And here I am! Elena Bellini Photographer!
I am a freelance ( is better than sayd independent wanderer!), I love to travel
and to photograph the faces of people different from us, I love the portrait ... I'm not firm
as before in a city! I like to move around and see new places and people!

My weddings are especially into Emilia Romagna, with episodes 
Extra on Rome, Porto Venere, Como Lake and no longer in one place! 
Creativity is stimulated by new environments, new people, new challenges!        
I have a photographic studio by appointment, this one is for the photographic book,
but  I work also in external  and I move anywhere you want! 
       
 (I ask you only the cost of gasoline if the place is very far!). 
               

In these four years I have done exhibitions of my recent trips and I think that
continue to make it ... if only to bring us:
places, faces, scents, feelings of other places ...

I attended the FESTIVAL OF EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY, in 2009 with an exhibition on: "ETERNITY", in 2010 with an installation on : "L' ENCHANTMENT IN THE NATURE.".

I Collaborate with other photographers throughout the territory of Emilia Romagna, exquisite colleagues , 
people that if they can really help you! And they are very rare now! 

I am often in Maserati in Modena and Ferrari in Maranello to photograph the magnificent cars that come out flaming red lines by the great Enzo Ferrari ... the machines are things without emotion, but I can assure you, that, can take pictures of these creations is far from cold!

You will find me in specialized trade fairs in the field of marriage as:

"Casa e Tavola" in Reggio Emilia and

"Lo Sposalizio" in Modena and Nonantola.

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I am part of 'National Association of Professional Photographers TAU Visual

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I am part of the CNA Professional Photographers (FEP and WCPP).

I am invited to hold screenings of my trips for associations, clubs, cameras, 
 CAI, sections of Adventures in the World, in the provinces of: Modena, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Bologna. 



I collaborate with some magazines and periodicals (Childhood, Travel, University of Bologna, News paper and more...). 
   

“My photography means spontaneity ... capture the very moment ... read one's face down to the soul.
 My work not only is study and technique but mainly emotions and sensitiveness        
 which merge with what I have in front of my camera My photography means spontaneity ...
capture the very moment ... read one's face down to the soul.

Well ... I think I said the things most important about me and to have exhausted my writer’s creativity
... for now ... if I will think of something else I will add something at this home writing!

I invite you to look at my photos on this site constantly updated
and come to meet me in some exhibition, showing somewhere, if only to exchange
word on photography, on travel or on many other good things in life!


With affection. ...............................................................

........................................................................................................Elena.

www.fotocerimonia.com