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This is the new blog of Fabien Butazzi aka @fabienb.

Fabien is a Creative, a Digital Nomad, a Photographer and an Entrepreneur.
Over the last 25+ years he’s worn many hats: Creative Director, UX Lead, DesignOps Manager, Designer, Photographer, DJ & Radio Host, Public Speaker, Food-blogger… His work has won awards and has been exhibited around the world.

In a time without social media, he started as the first Italian male food-blogger and grew his blog to an impressive 50K unique visitors per day, becoming one of the first influencers to work with brands.

Today, he’s back with a new adventure and he’s inviting you to follow along on this blog and a YouTube channel.
Welcome my friend.

I offer you a unique photographic experience in London, via AirBnB

Fancy street, cityscape and night? My itinerary covers it all and I will show you how to capture that perfect moment and make it Instagram-worthy.
My goal for you is to go past the traditional postcard and see the city in a different way.
The itinerary is conceived in a way to cover all genres in any weather and I'll share the exclusive view you only get from locals.

Note: If no bookable date seems available, feel free to inquire anyway as I may still be able to accommodate you.

Check dates and availability

2022

January

14-16Athens
Blank Wall Gallery
21-31Chicago
Bridgeport Art Center
Photographer Of The Year
28-30Berlin
BBA Gallery

February

01-18Chicago
Bridgeport Art Center
Photographer Of The Year
18-20Johannesburg
FotoZA Gallery
24-26New York
Agorá Gallery
Landscape & Black and White Photographer Of The Year

March

25-27Barcelona
Valid World Hall

April

05-10Bangkok
Art & Culture Centre
16-19Manila
Modeka
29-01Budapest
PH21 Gallery

May

06-08Limassol
6x6 Centre For Photography

June

09-12Stockholm
Galleri Kontrast
30-05Hanoi
Matca

August

12-14Minneapolis
Praxis Gallery
18-20Montreal
Gallerie Gora

September

23-4 NovChicago
Bridgeport Art Center
Landscape Photographer Of The Year
30-02Philadelphia
The SPACE

October

7-9San Diego
Sparks Gallery
Travel Photographer Of The Year
28-30Barcelona
Valid World Hall

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Sep 1

What if I told you that this is not a photo of a real person? And neither a 3D model or a painting or a Photoshop artwork…?

For the first time since I created this account over 10 years ago, I’m publishing an image that is not something I created with either my camera or my copy of Photoshop.
What you are looking at, is an artwork generated by an Artificial Intelligence, simply by interpreting a few words. Not by telling it to look at an another photo and recreate it. But “imagining” what I wanted to see when I wrote down “portrait of a tattoed Asian woman with fuchsia hair with a Leica 50mm on Kodak Portra 800”. That’s it.
The AI digested the words and puked. Rainbow puke with unicorns and fairies.

This is all my latest YouTube video is about.
I went down the rabbit hole to find a new technology to be excited of, scared of, grateful for.
Could this actually make my work obsolete? Or could it sparkle my creativity to generate even more unique work?

What this can achieve is incredible. Watch my video and have your mind blown
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Aug 24

In over 10 years using Instagram, I never shared anything work-related. I always enjoyed this space for the social aspect of social media and used it to experiment and to express myself.
This portrait of actor and director @patch_bell here is not really “work” per se, as I was mainly assisting my friend @maxgiorgeschi and taking advantage of the photo session to try the @zhongyi.optics Mitakon Speedmaster 35mm f/0.95 (yes, f/0.95 - I I talk about the lens in one of my videos). But it is somewhat representative of one of the many aspects of my work as a photographer. I do take portraits in fact, and it’s one of the reasons why I have my photographic studio (others being product and food photography among others, art and of course YouTube).
But I like to assist my experienced friends as well because I can hide behind the scenes and capture beautiful unexpected moments of spontaneity. Yes, this is an unexpected moment: it is not staged in any way. And frankly, it’s the photo I personally like the most from the day.

But how would you feel if I were to share work-related photos here? Please let me know.
Thanks!

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Jul 7

I read somewhere that the English-speaking people are the worst at learning new languages because theirs is so universal that they don't even bother to try.
Myself (not English), if I could only choose one superpower, it would be to speak all the languages in the world.
But not knowing one language (or having extremely limited knowledge) has never prevented me from communicating with locals.
It happened for example in Seoul, where I spent a couple hours photographing sunset with a 76 years old fantastic man who knew no English (and I know no South Korean, other than hello and thank you). We communicated first with hands and face expressions and then with google translate on my phone.
And it's happened with this brilliant man in Barcelona who accepted to have his portrait taken under this gorgeous morning light (also, the detail of the morning absinthe...). Again, he didn't even try to speak anything other than Catalan 😁

I will cherish photography forever for it makes me connect with people in unimaginable ways, breaking every possible barrier. 😍
This is what today's portrait means to me.

Bye

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Jun 24

I haven’t always been one to ask strangers if I could take their portraits in the street. And even if now it gets a tad easier and I always use the same tips I already told you in my YouTube video, I’m still very much a shy individual and just walk away without taking the photo.
Then when I do take the photo, there’s a whole lot of other issues tied to shooting in the street: crowds, light, ugly backgrounds, etc. And because I love to shoot in harsh light (simply because I love to be out when it’s sunny and hot), the person in front of my camera would probably like to protect their eyes, making eye contact one more challenge.
So when I went back home and saw that in this image I could actually see one eye looking right at me, I was over the moon.
This dude was already a phenomenal subject, and now I got his eye in the shot! YESS!
So here’s one more portrait for you. I haven’t been too prolific with social media lately (have I ever been?) but I’ll try to catch up now because I have so much content to share. It will happen :)

Thanks for now.
Bye

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May 26

So I guess it’s going to be portraits now… I’ve taken a few lately and I’m really enjoying finally being able to overcome my “fear” of strangers in the streets. It’s odd because in my travels I long for the human connection, to meet new people and embrace new cultures. And yet, as a photographer, it was always hard to simply ask. There’s always the fear of rejection, but in the end is it such a bad thing? Of course it’s a shame if a person who would make for a fantastic portrait decides they don’t want to be photographed, but it’s in their rights. But more often than not, people actually say yes and it can even be a conversation starter (even if you don’t speak each other’s language, it’s happened).
I will still take candid shots when it seems right to do it, but I’m more than happy to ask someone for their consent or to pose, 100%

I did publish a video on YouTube on my tips to photograph strangers, the same tips I followed myself to approach people successfully. I will soon make a follow-up because I want to talk about some other aspects of shooting in the streets.
I just need to finally finish the Istanbul video that is taking forever (200+ clips, 4+ hours, …) and then I’ll move to that.

In the meantime, portraits time. And you may have noticed in the stories that self-portraits are making an appearance too… who knows where this will lead me… 😅

As always, feedback is very much welcome and appreciated.
Cheers

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Apr 14

The first video following my trip to Istanbul is out! I absolutely had to film this video: Istanbul turned my approach to Street Photography upside down and I went on a very different route than the one I had anticipated.
The amazing people of Istanbul drew me closer and closer and before I knew it, I was taking their portraits at any given chance. Obviously, I shoot portraits for work (sometimes) but I’m not known for my Street Portraits or for being so at ease with asking people to pose for me. And yet it occurred naturally in Istanbul.
I’m not going to give too much away because you need to watch the video (and subscribe to my channel), but boy I’m so glad it happened. And I’ll give you more info on how I approach people as well as my 5 tips to make it a comfortable experience for you and the people you photograph.
In the meantime, I’m already collecting all the content I filmed and photographed in Istanbul to publish the next videos… Keep your eyes peeled!

Cheers

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