Valerio Perini - EFIAP

I’m a photographer born in 1953 in a small town a few miles away from Florence, Italy, where I still live. I started to photography around 18/20 years old. In 1979 with my wife, we founded the photo-club “La Torretta” involving many photo fans. ------ ----------------------------------------- In 1980 I organize the 1st regional contest and after a year the National contest. In the meantime, in cooperation with the City Government we got fresh photos of the territory for the Public Archive and I made a search of “war memorials” with photo-exhibitions - I also executed a reportage on the Irpinia earthquake. In only 4 years of FIAF contests (1981-1984) I had 191 entries (176 for black/white photos) that consented me to have a “FIAF STAR” honour. I won many national and international prizes and had photos shown in Hong-Kong, Singapore, Durban, France and England; some photos published on FIAF Year Book in the 1982, 83, 84 and 85, on the World SICOF Year Book in 1982 and on the magazines “Fotografare” and “Reflex” in more than an occasion. ------- ----- ----- - ------ -- -- ----At the end of 1984 I had to give up; for personal reasons I didn’t have the time for photos or contest organizations, but those years remained in my heart as an important occasion of knowledge of different people and Countries.  --------- -------------- ------ - ------- ------------------ ----- In December 2004 I really passed through a very difficult moment of my life but, luckily, I discovered my old analog camera and with a new digital one I started again the adventure!
 The 2006/2007/2008 National  Photographic Contests gave me the opportunity to be classified in the first positions of “ FIAF Contests” in Italy and to win some International ’ones:  I’m the first Italian photographer to win the “Al-Thani Award 2006” in Qatar. I win prizes to  The Trierenberg Super Circuit 2007 in Austria, and the Photovernissage 2007 in Rivne-Ukraine, Aqueducte and Reus in Spain 2008, Algarve in Portugal, again Photovernissage in Ukraine 2008, Pistoia and Garbagnate in Italy.

Many photos are published by national and international catalogues and photo-magazines in Italy and abroad; some works are into the International Museum of Photography in Cerdanyola del Valles (Barcelona - Spain). Photo exhibitions in Italy, Spain , Ukraine, France, Cyprus, India, Japan and National Museum of Photography  of Lishui (China).
In March 2008, I receive honour AFIAP “ARTISTE de la FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE de l ’ART PHOTOGRAPHIQUE "
In May of the same year, I take part with the Italian Team , at the "29th Biennial Black & White World Cup" in Slovakia and in that occasion I win the Bronze Medal as individual prize.
In August 2009 I'm part of the Italian representative who win the Gold Medal at the "25th Biennial projected images World Cup" in Indonesia. In the same year I win prizes in  Greece, Ukraine, France, Austria and Italy .
In January 2010, I win the honour FIAF * Star in "Projected Images" having successfully completed 150 admissions at National Contests .In the same year I won 7 prizes National contests and 260 admissions and 21 prizes in International contest : Italy, Romania, Spain, Argentina, Ukraine, San Marino, Finland.
In January 2010 I receive honour EFIAP “ EXCELLENCE de la FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE de l ’ART PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ".
I teach photography and do meetings with photographers in Italy to explain my photographic technique
I have  been part of jury in National and International competitions.
In the Italian contest-ranking from 1956 till 2011 I’m in the first positions with 660 admissions in 11 years activity.
From  2006 every year I have photos published on FIAF Year Book and other national , international photo-magazines.
Photography is important for me; it’s trying to catch that particular moment, like drawing an emotion and I know that my heart and the love I feel for anything alive, play an important rule in all I do. This is why I don’t want to alter the situation I see, but eventually, I personalize my shots by changing my position or using different lenses while with the computer I only interfere on colour contrast, on the lights and squaring the images, like I did before using the dark-room. I print my photos by myself because using Professional print shops would be like sharing my work with them and I believe that this would detract something from the feel of my pictures.