About Travel To Publish
Fine Art Photography by Cristian Corradin
Waves and surf are the leitmotiv of the collections
but you will also find surf related areas as well as natural and urban landscapes.
In the range of subjects and styles, all photos are characterised by a precise calculation of light and angle and a scrupulous eye that captures the best moments.
Cristian Corradin
His career in photography starts in 1997 as the perfect match with his desire to travel the world chasing waves so he has been on a trip ever since.
Those were the times of analog photography, when the margin of error or correction were tiny, waits to see the final image are long and photojournalism has strict criteria.
After only 3 years from his beginning, he establishes long-term collaborations with several important Italian and international magazines specialized in surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding and snowboarding and he realises photo shoots for important Italian fashion brands as well.
His experience working with specialised magazines leads him to create his own surf magazine Dreams Up Life in 2007 and fully focus on it. After carrying out the pubblication for 7 years, his love for surf and its culture gradually takes him to leave the performing and reporting side of surfing for the elegant and poetic one, and bring him back to his beloved village in the Basque Country where he decides to settle with Valentina.
Atmospheres in his photos become more intense, some of them more realistic some others more “impressionist”. Cristian’s attention to detail is not confined to photographic technique, but it covers the thorough selection of the most meaningful subjects and moments in surf culture and tradition.
In this evolution, he wishes to diffuse everlasting printed photographs instead of vanishing digital contents more than ever so his partner and he lay the foundations for a new project: this is the birth of Travel To Publish.
"Cristian Corradin est surfeur et photographe. Originaire d'Italie, il s'est installé sur la côte basque, depuis plusieurs années. Avec discrétion et sensibilité, il exerce ses deux passions. Porté par son regard qualifié et émerveillé, il photographie l'océan à sa façon, moins sur l'action du jour que sur l'atmosphère que crée la puissance, la beauté des vagues. Cette photo qui date de 2016 est notoire du regard d'un fin photographe. Elle expose la puissance océane par la furie, en arrière plan, d'une vague massive doublée d'un vent démoniaque et, au premier plan, le calme de la nature avec ce lagon à marée basse. Deux plans qui graphiquement se superposent par leur ligne esthétique propre et ainsi symboliquement se construisent, avec en parallèle la marche dans les rochers d'un surfeur qu'on imagine à la fois comblé et épuisé par sa session. Genre de sessions où ce n'est pas le nombre de vagues qui compte entre celles inévitables qu'on bouffe, et celles pas faciles où l'engagement technique et audacieux a pu se faire accepter des éléments! Une présence humaine justement saisie et cadrée dans cette photographie, reflétant la composition de l'instant du photographe, importante à souligner a une époque où tant d'images de partout à tout instant font plus œuvre de décomposition."
Gibus de Soultrait
Surfer's Journal France n. 126