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Early life
Alessandro Calabrese was born in Trento on 18 May 1983. Since the day he was born he has always seen his life as torn between his father Roberto and his mother Cinzia, as they divorced soon after his birth. The lack of attention given to his bride, reached the climax when at the moment of his son’s birth Roberto was in Texas photographing the disasters caused by the Hurricane Alicia. Few months after Alessandro was born Cinzia divorced Roberto and vanished from their life, re-marring a couple of years later. As a result of this, Alessandro and his father developed a deep bond, and he was very much influenced through his whole life by the deeds of Roberto. On the other hand, the lack of a mother figure in his life grow in him a general wariness in women, that impacted his whole life onwards. Already in early age Alessandro developed a keen eye for photography. Inspired by his father’s job, the young Alessandro dealt with disposable cameras since he can remember. He used to finish up a whole photographic roll in a single week, documenting his life and what was around him. In 1992, he followed his father in Sicily, where he moved due to his job. On the 23rd of May, the two happened to be in Highway A29, few meters away from the car transporting Giovanni Falcone that exploded that day. At the moment of the incident, Roberto was quick in reacting steering the wheel, crushing the car but saving his and his son’s life. The happening had a strong impact on Alessandro’s life, as he managed to take some photographs of the event, being the first one to document the episode. The happenings in 1992 touched Calabrese’s consciousness and psyche, making him look for and photographs shocking and out of the ordinary event. In 1995 he started attending high school, he could develop more his hobby and passion of photography. He joined and co-founded the photography-laboratory with Alicia Mendez, a student with his same inclination towards the art. Thanks to the influence of this latter, Calabrese’s art matured and developed, resulting in a constant push and research for the elements that were of an ordinary daily life.