We were lucky to catch up with Maria Riboli recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Maria, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
Without a doubt, it comes from my parents! My father was a very hard working man, who absolutely loved what he did and worked till the very end of his life.
He was a psychiatrist and he truly had a passion for helping people.
He showed me what it means to work hard and to do it for something you love.
My mother, who was a stay at home mom, showed me what it meant to work non stop, with a smile on our face and so much kindness in your heart.
She had a level of empathy that to these days fills my heart with a comforting warmth.
They both, in their own way, showed me how to work hard, with kindness and to do it all for the right reason. How what you do will impact everyone around you and how every action you create can and should have a ripple effect of positivity in people’s lives.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
Sometimes it’s hard for me to narrow down what I actually do…and the best way to describe it is that I’m an artist.I’ve been an actress and a director for as long as I can remember and that has influenced everything in my life.My work on the stage, on film, on tv, has changed me, forged me and inspired me…I’m currently a photographer as well and I do want to focus on that in this article.I’ve been photographing life since I was old enough to hold a camera. This is a passion that was passed on to me from my father. He used to say “I’m stopping the time that goes by”…and I’m so thankful he did.I have so many memories now that I can look at, thanks to him!I’m a storyteller by nature and being able to capture moments in life, it’s exhilarating to me.I love documenting the real moments, the hugs, the laughters, the watery eyes. Like a sense memory I want you to look at your photos and be transported to an instant of your journey on this earth where for a second you will remember the sound of that laughter, the warmth of that hug, the butterflies in your stomach as your love is walking down the aisle to you.I have a documentary style photography…I let the moment unfold and I catch it when it happens. You feel like you’re just hanging out with a friend if you shoot with me…and that is important to me!I love portrait work and I love artists, I understand that world, that energy and to be able to capture it, it’s incredible.Any live event is also something I truly enjoy. It keeps me on my feet and there’s something exciting about watching things unfold from behind my lens.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
I have to say that probably in everything I’ve ever done in my life, there was always a spark of shiny madness behind…that instant where you don’t think twice and you just jump in something new and you let the excitement guide you.I’ve trained and studied and I never stop doing that, I think it’s so incredibly important…But I do believe you have to embrace something because you absolutely love it.And please be yourself…don’t try to follow the latest trend just because that’s what everyone else is doing…do you, show you and your heart…that is the only way to also find the people you want to work with.I’m a photographer but I know I’m not for everyone…and that is ok…there’s enough out there for everyone…find your field…your people, your passion…
How would you describe your ideal client?
An artist, from dancers to actors, to musicians, to painters and everybody in between… I love artists and I love creating a journey for them…
And I love anyone with a creative heart and soul.
Do you have to be an artist to shoot with me? Of course not!
But if you have a playful heart, then just know you’re home with me!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.MariaRiboliPhotography.com
- Instagram: www.Instagram.com/MariaRiboliPhotography
- Facebook: www.Facebook.com/MariaRiboliPhotography
Image Credits
All images by me 🙂 www.MariaRiboliPhotography.com
