[사진여행] Rowboat, Ngo Dong River

[鷗浦 순둥이]

Photo of The Day - NationalGeographic

June 23, 2009

Rowboat, Ngo Dong River

Photograph by Emanuele Nardoni

This Month in Photo of the Day: Travel and Culture Photos

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Shot during sailing on the Ngo Dong River

이 사진은 비가 쏟아지는 응오동江에서 한 아낙네가 삼판이란 조그만 배의 노를 젓고 있는 풍경이다. 이태리 밀란출신인 사진작가 Emanuele Nardoni의 작품이다.

동영상을 보시려면 상단 중앙에 있는 배경음악은 잠시 꺼주세요.

하노이를 출발하여 응오동 강을 따라 가는 일일여행

A day tour from Hanoi to Tam Coc "three caves" on Ngo Dong river with a stop at Hoa Lu an ancient capital of Vietnam.

Interview with Photographer Emanuele Nardoni

by Ivy Mate Oct. 13 2011 - Photoshop Tutorials(http://www.photoshoptutorials.ws)

(All Photos by  Emanuele Nardoni)

▲Ghost Temple

We’d like to know more about you. Can you tell us more about yourself?

I’m 37 and I work as a freelance art director and teacher at IED, the European Design Insititute in Milan, the city where I was born

In 2004, together with a team of communication professionals and photographers, I founded one of the first online photo magazine about reportage and travel.

As a photographer I shot photo reportage in India, U.S.A., Asia, Africa and Europe.

I am currently working on a very special photography project with other photographers while at the same time I am participating in the establishment of a start-up that will operate in the communication business.

▲Behind the Wall

When did your love affair with photography begin?

Unlike many others who were born with a passion for photography, my interest was late and has been developing over the years together with the ever-growing desire to travel. If I had to determine a specific date when the “love affaire” began, I’d say it was in 1997 during my first trip to Tanzania. Africa has been like Cupid for me and photography.

▲Pitchblack

How does photography influence your life?

Photography influenced and influences my everyday life because it changed and keeps on changing the perception of what surrounds me. Sometimes it’s weird because it makes me thinking of the world as a huge stage built by the best set designer ever, with billions of academy awarded actors.

▲Chicken King

How does the people/scenery you capture influence you as a photographer?

That’s the most important part of photography. I always try to blend in the scenery and feeling involved with what’s going on trying to catch moments without being noticed. Until I don’t feel myself confident with people and environment I don’t shoot.

▲Cannon Beach

Emotions are said to be an important aspect of photography. How crucial is this element for you as a photographer?

I’ve always thought that photography means capturing a unique moment in time. Thinking that those moments will never be repeated the same way, makes me fix the emotion I’m feeling in the exact time I click, hoping to deliver the same kind of emotions to the people that look at my pictures. This is the reason why I take photographs.

▲Yellowstone

What tools of the trade do you use most often?

This will make most of the readers laugh: an olympus e-520 with a 14-42 and a 40-150 lens. Lightroom and some photoshop for the post production work.

I could never go around with those rocket launcher size cameras without being noticed.

▲Coming Down

You have a series that covers the beauty of India. What was your experience like in shooting this magnificent place?

You won’t find any single word that could be suitable to define India. India is magic, raw, merciless and mystic. It was really an amazing experience, because of the colors, noises, smells and people that follow you every moment of the day. Talking about emotions, it’s a place where you really have to control them not to be overwhelmed. On the contrary and this is the funny thing I was really confident in shooting because as I was taking photographs to people, many of them were taking pictures of me and my wife with their mobile phones, and I still have to understand why.

▲Gorilla Rwanda

What message do you (often) want to bring out in your photographs?

Nothing more than what I shoot, trying to let people see how beautiful the world is and that you can find the beauty in the eyes of an old man who lives in the street as much as in a lonely road in the middle of nowhere. You just have to learn how to see it.

Any projects that you’re working on right now?

I’m working together with another photographer to a long term project that is quite far from the reportage style. But I can’t say more at the moment.

I’m trying to move to New York City and I’m obviously planning my next trip.

▲Sea-sand

Any advice for our readers?

It’s important to have a good photographic culture. Studying the great masters of photography, try to emulate them and then find your personal style. It’s only the first step, but perhaps the most important one.

 ▲Indian