Wounded Chile by Edoardo Moruzzi

To transform your childhood passion into your career is everyone's dream, but only a few can actually manage to do it. Among them is Edoardo Moruzzi, a 21 year-old from Bolzano, who is in his fourth year of the law program at Bocconi – and is an up and coming photographer.
"I started when I was young, messing around with my mother's cameras," he recalls, "then I went up the line following the changing technology, from analogical reflex to the first digital cameras and now to the modern professional digital cameras."

Together with his partner and friend Giuseppe Balacco (a NABA graduate), Edoardo was just starting to get some recognition when his first big job came along: "In 2008 we were hired as the official photographers for the European canoe championships at the Idroscalo here in Milan, then other jobs came through, such as product catalogues. In the last few months, it has been insitutional videos for various companies." Edoardo's training is not the typical path through photography school and apprenticeship – he is largely self-taught. "I trained myself through practical experience and by reading a few basic books. I believe that formal education is important, but direct experience counts even more".

Together with talent, that is. Because a good photographer does more than making portraits of reality, but rather interprets reality from his own point of view. "It's the photographer who decides what part of the observed reality he will transmit", he explains, "combining creativity and the ability to deal with the unforeseen events that so often occur."
Tragic unforeseen events, sometimes, which can often turn into great opportunities to grow professionally and personally, as happened to Edoardo. "I had gone to visit my brother in Chile, where he is a diplomat at the Italian Embassy", he says, "and our plan was to stay in Santiago for a week and then go to Easter Island, but then I was involved in that terrible earthquake." It was a tough experience for Edoardo, who accompanied his brother, helping with reflief work along with everyone at the Embassy. But it was also the chance to put together an extraordinary photographic report, "which will stay in my personal portfolio; I took pictures of the tragedy,the people, a country deeply wounded but which always kept faith in its institutions, as you could see from the Chilean flags that were flying eveywhere."
At only 21, the road to being a complete photographer is still a long one. In what aspects does Edoardo consider himself strong, and where is there room for improvement? "I'm pretty goood at landscapes, buildings and studio shots. In a way, those in the studio are the most interesting because you have to build them from scratch, which emphasizes creativity. But I need to improve in portraits, I don't think I have yet developed the ability to interact well enough with people".
In the future, he sees himself as a photoreporter, "because it's a job that would allow me to combine my passion for photography with my love of exploration and research, and above all because it would allow me to do the photos I like best, the ones that tell a story."