Like many other Tandilenses, Julieta del Río Reggiani He looked for his future abroad. What I didn’t know was that one of those trips would change your life. When he arrived at Australia He did a diving course in which he saw a person with a very particular job, a photographer who took underwater images. He immediately approached him to ask him about his teams, and shortly after he spent his savings on a special housing for his camera. Juli took photos from a very young age, but only then his vocation became his trade. Today is an outstanding Aquatic photography professional and ambassador of specialized brands, but above all a passionate about what he does.
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I accessed the latest news from your email“The people usually take a plane from Argentina to Sidney or Melbourne, but I took it to Cairns, because I wanted to take a diving course. Since I went to the great barrier of coral, I said to do it there. When we had to go down to the open sea, there was a boy taking photos below the water, and I thought what is this that I never saw it? When I just came out, I went to ask him. 5 years. The photographer told in dialogue with Tandil’s echo.
Julieta was born in San Antonio Oeste but from a very young age his family moved to Tandil, where he lived to 27 years. He studied environmental management at Unicen, but since he liked to take pictures for a long time.
“I started with very kids. To go play with the camera, leave and explore in the mountains. The plan was to go walking with my friends, lose us, take the digital camarita. And then it was playing, and playing,” he shared. Years later he took a course with Gonzalo Celasco, which allowed him to put in words and organize knowledge that she had for her self -taught training.
“My friends told me ‘Juli, you have to have this, do events’, but I think it was all of exploration. When you are curious, you look, you look, ask, you self -ask, investigate and get to know more. But in reality, it all started as a game,” he added.
Then it was time to meet other countries. He spent four months in the United States and his return was already clear that he wanted to continue traveling. In 2019 he took a ticket to Australia, where he did the diving course. For December of that year, he already had his team to get aquatic photos, and although the plan was to stay for 12 months, the pandemic made him finally stay there. But already as a photographer of the sea, and that also transformed his trip.
“Your pods”
Installed in the coastal city of Noosa, the first image that Juli took with his aquatic photography team was that of the pink sky reflex over the sea, during a season of forest fires. He continued with landscapes, but above all he began registering surfers and all his culture.
In Australia, surfing goes beyond sport, and has to do in particular with the link with the sea. Like those who set up the waves with their boards, Julieta began to relate to water through her camera. Understand your rhythm, know your movements, and know how light is reflected throughout the day.
But after a more exploratory stage, professional proposals arrived. A clothing brand summoned it to take images of surfers wearing dresses. With many nerves, the photographer hit a poster with the inscription “You can”. The day of the event, being second photographer, faced more than one technical complication.
It rained, and did not place in the lens coverage enough wax that makes waterproofing. It was a difficult day, but at some point he wanted to capture the behind -the -scene of an image that the main photographer was doing, and shot in a burst because he thought something could be in that little scene. When he returned home he downloaded the memory card and found many surprises.
Among others, one of that moment in which the model made a dance gesture with her hand, and the moment was recorded by the eye of Juli who achieved one of her captures she shows with more pride. Finally, as she had proposed in the poster of her desk, she could.
Photographs and history
In the present, Julieta del Río Reggiani, installed in Australia, makes gastronomic photography, events, social and works for brands. But it is defined as a photographer of the sea. That is why the recognized Orca brand-which designs and produces clothing for water-incorporated it as an ambassador of the firm.
“Julie del Mar, to the ocean,” Orca titled an extensive review about Julieta’s work, along with an audiovisual production where it can be seen on the Australian coast taking pictures to surfers.
Working with Orca gave the photographer greater visibility and the possibility of connecting with new projects, although also for her part, she is clear about the future search for her career.
“I like working with small ventures, with people who have a story to tell in your brand”he shared. “What I am clear about my career is that I want to connect with people and tell a story. That is not just a pretty photo to promote a business, but that I can have a story, sit with that person, and that it tells me not only the beautiful but also difficulties or break points”he added.
During the weekend of April 5, Julieta returned to take a plane to Australia. At the time installed in the place, he did not rule out that the future finds it in new horizons. Always with the sea, which he defined as “Disconnection, like you forget everything”but also with your camera.
