BUONGIORNO, THIS IS ME!
LUCA RAJNA
Narrative photographer living in Italy
As a narrative (or storytelling) photographer, I am honoured to work in partnership with a group of first-class storytellers who have won the most important international awards, from the World Press Photo and the Prix de la Photographie Paris to the Sony World Photography Awards.
Every ‘Project’ of Luca Rajna Progetti Fotografici (‘Luca Rajna’s Photographic Projects’) is created for those who seek the highest quality: couples, elopements, surprise proposals, families, solo travellers and weddings. Drawing on the best know-how, I want to give you an extraordinary experience, one that will grow in value as the years go by. I do not work with a single standardised method that forces you to adapt to it, whether or not it suits you: I will guide you towards the style that suits you best, so that I can meet your highest expectations.
When I take photographs, I always try to convey an emotion or a feeling that goes beyond what is shown.
I am honoured to put both my knowledge and my sensibility at your disposal, aware that I have been given an important, and beautiful, task: your photographs will hold some of the most precious moments of your life.
This is my goal as an artist: that your memories and emotions live on in your photographs, exactly as you expected, hoped and dreamed they would!
ME AND MARIA ROSA
Husband, wife | Father, mother
I am the artist: I take high-quality photographs, but accounting is not my strong point!
My wife, Maria Rosa, is not a photographer, but she keeps the studio’s accounts – one more reason why marrying her was a very good idea…
So we can say we have a ‘lovely complementary relationship’…
We met in 1991. At the time I was a musician and a researcher specialising in Venetian music from the 16th to the 18th century: she is from Venice, and she speaks Venetian to me, so her accent is unmistakable…
1991. Lake Valvestino, Italy: one of our first photographs together – and our first meeting, in Venice.
We married in 1996, the year of my last concert; by then I was already running my own photography studio (I had studied photography for two years at the CFP Bauer in Milan, graduating in 1994).
We live between Lake Como and Venice.
Brussels, together at the European Parliament.
Our children, Mattia and Noemi, in 2015.
In the late 1990s I was among the first Italian photographers to have a website. Seeing the work of colleagues abroad online, I brought wedding photojournalism to Italy, where it was then almost unknown, and helped to make it popular.
In private life I love early and ethnic music, I enjoy translating the Bible from Hebrew and Greek, and I would happily never stop playing Subbuteo (table football).
Recommended films: Ushpizin (2004), Fireproof (2008) and Courageous (2011).
1992.
Playing the violone with the Baroque ensemble I founded.
The other musicians in the photograph are Lavinia Bertotti (soprano), Nicola Sansone (recorder), Roberto Chiozza (harpsichord) and Alberto Guerrero (cello).
I began my career as a concert performer on early wind instruments at sixteen; my first concert was in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Teaching wedding photography on the wedding planner courses of the IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan (European Institute of Design).
Among the great artists of the past, I learnt to compose images from the Venetian Vedutisti, the treatises of Wassily Kandinsky and the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, and to write poetry with light from the photographs of W. Eugene Smith, who can also be described as a narrative photographer, thanks to his refined sequences of images.
My favourite photography books belong to the analogue era: ‘L’Isola Intima’ [The Intimate Island] by Carmelo Bongiorno and ‘Venice’ by David Hamilton.
Pertengo, 29 November 1930: ‘Rita Rosso e Nino Rajna annunziano il loro matrimonio’ – my paternal grandparents’ wedding announcement.
My maternal grandparents’ wedding portrait, from the series ‘My Maternal Grandfather Writes His Memoirs’: San Carlo Borromeo Award for Young Emerging Photographers, 1994; Third Age Poetry Award, Dicastery of Culture, Republic of San Marino, 1996.
PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM
If you have not read it yet…
…you are very welcome to find it on the home page, so that you can choose with confidence who will tell your story.
... THEN 🙂
The epilogue
A fine art technique and a rigorous working method are only the means to an end: to make you happy and thrilled with your photographs, so that they evoke something precious and good in your life. The rest I tell my clients only, so…
Get in touch to find out more! I look forward to telling your story in my beloved land!