We recently connected with Alice Esposito and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Alice , thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I had a classmate who was a literal genius, at 11 they could replicate a painting just by looking at it for a few seconds and using cheap paint to recreate it. I knew I did not have that kind of talent or at least I hadn’t discovered one in me yet, so I started to get interested in the process of creating just by looking at them, the funny thing is, they could not create anything “original” on their own, they could only copy paintings, yes, in a very incredible way, but that made me realize that there was a big difference between talents and creativity, and I think is back then when I started to become curious about their process and their differences in which they can be achieved, and that’s how I started to develop my own artistic voice.

When I was 18 my dad gifted me his Ashai Pentax and just like that I found the tool that I was missing, “the photography language” is what I felt could encapsulate my talent and creativity and I knew It was going to be my path in life

I love connection, with people with places, I love the lightness of feelings, some can be everlasting but at the same time nonpermanent, and the photography process helps me keep all of it with me and understand it better, I have always been interested in people and their relation to light and space surrounding them.

My photography is a response and documentation of the experiences of my life; and consequently, the subjects of my work are the people that surround me: my community.
Connection is another important element, I rarely photograph people without having a conversation with them, I want to understand the person I’m about to photograph, their mannerisms, their posture,
and what makes them laugh, cry, and think. I love to see the place where they live, to know what they’re passionate about, and simply, what kind of energy surrounds them.

Alice , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My photography could be divided into 2 parts: simply put, the studio part and the documentary part:

The documentary part of it, is built around the concept of family and connection, some of the photographers that inspired me, helped me build this notion of “tribe” from an abstract base to a physical shape as Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Diane Arbus.
From them I learned that the Camera gives you access to other people’s lives, I want to navigate between the reality at the surface of life and bring a dreamy nostalgia
that surrounds me and the people I love in it, In my photographs, I want to create a unique and bizarre atmosphere surrounded by dreamy imagination.

My studio photography is more of an encapsulation of my origins and my classic studies. I grew up in Europe surrounded by art, I spent the weekends getting lost in Rome, London, Budapest, and Stockholm, visiting museums, galleries, and hidden corners of these cities, wherever I was living at that time, because of this, I’m very interested in sculpture, paintings iconography, and you can find al of this inside my studio work, I use light, space, and movements as the main part of my photographic language.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I believe artists need to surround themself with other artists, does not matter the field, can be a mix of things: painters, writers, sculptors, digital creators, anything that brings new ideas, creativity, and especially conversation and different points of view, every artist should have some kind of “factory” were friends, artists and whoever has any creative energy feels welcome, creativity is like water in need to flow and it needs constant renewal.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Meeting people, exchanging ideas and most of it creating something new and become a better person/artist

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.espositoalice.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alice.cooper.esposito
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-cooper-esposito

Image Credits
For the picture of me please credit Lavibnia Pisani, for the others I put the name on the photos title: but they Are: Chia Chen (x4) Taylor Murphy-Sinclair (x2) Chase Coleman (x2)