An extremely lucky man, Vittorio Sacco was able to make from his occupation an overwhelming sense of passion. Inexplicably, from this infatuation, he’s still a circumstantial victim. A man that is always chasing his challenges, wherever they happen to occur and with any means they need to be dueled with. Rarely satisfied from his own performances, but always deeply convinced of being able to improve. Daring, provocative, arguable, problematic and extremely curious. Since his youth, he finds himself unveiling every subject he lays his eyes upon, with an innate desire of knowledge and a spasmodic search to fully eviscerate its content.
Agnieszka Celej: Some photographers started out as assistants, others photographing their own children, how did you start your career?
Vittorio Sacco: Mesmerized by witnessing the process of a black and white paper sheet as it developed in its bath.. Love at first sight! It happened in a professional photo studio that soon became my preferred playground. I was only 14… My enthusiasm and stubbornness forced the Studio Manager to finally hire me as a third assistant. From there a long and winding road that eventually brought me to Mecca, London. My career was definitely set.
Why have you decided to be a professional tabletop photographer and director?
It was then that I was introduced to a world renowned Still Life Photographer, Mr. Lester Bookbinder.
His work was sublime, his approach on set almost ritual. Those were the days where the most celebrated print campaigns shot at his studio were art directed by Ridley Scott and Adrian Lyne to name a few. In the very few hermetic conversations I had with the Master, he highly recommended me to enroll in a formal Professional Photography School.
Four years later I graduated from Brooks institute, California. Illustration was my Major and, at the end, table-top was a direct consequence. Years later, in NYC, another mythological figure in the Advertising World, Mr. Ed Bianchi, sponsored my very first showreel, and triggered my professional future as a Director Cameraman.
