MASTER of MACRO

Alessandro Zocchi discusses his love of getting closer to nature

For some, the appeal of macro photography lies in mastering the considerable technical challenges involved in capturing incredible close-up images, while for others their inspiration is the subject matter itself and the desire to get closer to it. Photographer Alessandro Zocchi is definitely an example of the latter. “When I was a child I was very attracted to nature,” he recalls. “I loved to go to parks and observe in detail the plants and animals. One day my father gave me a book. It was the only available book in macro photography. We had a reflex camera in the family and the first thing I did was to insert a cardboard tube between the body and a 50mm lens. That’s how I took my first macro shot, and I never…

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