I graduated from an agriculture high school in 2009 and later obtained a professional qualification in 2010.
I worked first as a green areas maintainer, pruner and irrigation systems maker, and designer. In simple terms, I was a gardener.
I went on doing this job for several years until I felt no more motivated by it.
Then some buddies and I co-founded a farm based on hops cultivation that I left after 1 year, since then I'd worked as a bartender for 2 years.
After a trip on my own in Cambodia in 2016, I started getting interested in social, and environmental themes and began to consider photography as a communicative way to convey them.
From then on, I first began a course as an autodidact based on the study and practice of photography, which I later completed by attending courses and workshops held by professional photographers that enhanced my perception of photography.
I'm particularly drawn by the relationship that people have with one another in relation to the place they live or they are at a particular moment, from the viewpoint of the interaction with it, and therefore their behaviour. I generally prioritise spontaneity over beauty or composition.
ln 2018/19 I collaborated as a photographer with “La Nuova Venezia”, an Italian local newspaper(Venice area).
Today, always with interest in human behaviour, I'm studying psychology in SETU, Ireland.
I'm currently based in Kilkenny, Ireland.
CV
- Workshop of photojournalism with Francesco Cito, May 2019.
- Member of the staff at the "International Month of Photojournalism" in Padua, May 10th - 26th, 2019;
- Collaboration with the local newspaper “La Nuova Venezia”, 2018-2019;
- Workshop of general photography with the anthropologist and photojournalist Riccardo Bononi, October/November 2018;
- Collaboration with Erodoto108 online magazine, end of 2018;
- Workshop of architecture, spaces, and landscape photography, with Alessandra Bello and Andrea Rossato, May 2018
andre.dero123@gmail.comprivacy
Based in Kilkenny, Ireland
From Venice, Italy