Chiara Balza
Photographer
Tell us a bit about yourself:
Enthusiastic and bored at the same time, I’ll be 25 the next first of January but often I feel more like I have 80 years old, I like to cruise with my bicycle in the city listening to music.
My house is ridiculously cold during the winter and damned hot during the summer.
I like movies where the bads wins.
What do you make?
Do you mean what I make to pay the rent?
I work in a little house of productions in Milan, but, useless to say, my big love is photography.
Where else on the web can we find you?
Well, I have my flickr page
and in these two projects: The ones we love and We project.
Don’t google my name, I don’t have facebook and I’m proud about that!
What did you dream about last night?
I dream a bunch of matchs of different sizes.. don’t ask me why!
What inspires you?
How a classic camera and two eyes could be so subjective, ask to ten people to take a picture of the same tree, you’ll have ten totally different photos.
For sure.
I find this pretty amazing.
Where do you live and what do you like about it?
I live in Milan (but I was born in a little town not so far from Milan) and lately I can’t find anything I like in this city.
And I’m sorry about that.
What is your biggest fear?
I know it’s a petty answer but I have to say death, I can quote one of my favourite director, Woody Allen, that says: “It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
Name a few of your favorite movies \ books \ websites \ bands:
God, really too much stuff, I can named the first that came in my mind..
Everything by David Lynch, Woody Allen or David Cronemberg
Writers: Fedor Dostoevski, Cesare Pavese, William Shakespeare,
bands: Pixies, Radiohead, Built to Spill (but there are many many more)
Website? I have to say flickr, they had a really great idea.
What are you really good at? What are you really bad at:
People think that I’m not good at lying but, honestly, I’m a very good liar.
I’m bad with everything that demand patience, expecially to learn how to play any instruments.
What is your favorite thing to eat?
I really like to eat, in Italy we have an unrivalled food.
I like almost everything made exception for the anchovies and dark chocolate.
I also love Japanese food, I could kill for salmon sushi..
How would you like to be remembered?
I would like to be remembered. This would be enough!
What is the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?
Uhm, I really don’t remember, I don't get easily embarrassed.
Anything else you would like to say:
A common but true “thank you very much!”