portrait and editorial photography
stories that get beneath the surface
My Left Eyeball
I am right handed but I became ambidextrous at a young age playing soccer, other multi-limbed sports and then the jazz drum set where you have a stick in each hand, the right foot on the bass drum and the left foot on the hi-hat. Funnily enough I shoot with my left eye. I love to put that left eye into the viewfinder and wait for the decisive moment to appear. I would not say that putting a frame around particular moments is an obsession, I would say that the frame is an extension of the mind. Everything we see, think and process is an interpretation and translation from the brain...the camera is like a hand that feels, touches and frames before the mind even interprets.
My name is Rodolfo Mari, I live in Connecticut and travel all over to help clients tell their story and to uncover the personality, identities and essence of people, places and things. I love the challenge of helping portrait subjects to be at ease so their true persona comes to the surface.
Lost & Found
Sometimes you go to places because you remember them and you want to remember them again...but that memory does not live there anymore. It can be sad to return to a place that is empty, empty of what it was. And then you remember something else: that this moment will be a memory someday too; so you click the shutter and record that future memory.