Pietro Cardoso, Photographer.

I’m a Unit Stills Photographer, born in Milan (Italy) and based in London (UK). The cinematic set is for me the perfect environment for the type of photography I love, which is is both portrait-oriented and narrative; shooting the making-of the movie, along with rehearsals, behind-the-scenes, details and portraits, truly opens up infinite creative possibilities, and unexpected meta-narrative layers; finding a balance between documenting the life on set in all its elements and characters and envisioning a parallel story to the screenplay one, while looking for a ‘mood’ as close as possible to that of the movie, is for me a real act of creation.

I regurarly collaborate with the London Film School – a fantastic place where I have the opportunity to meet incredibly talented people – and shoot official portraits of actors too."


This is Pietro's testimonial on our work together:

"Working with Raffaela was a real revelation.
Despite my young age, our collaboration had from the start a very professional character, made pleasant by her sympathy and friendly approach.

Her critical eye showed me my work in a completely different perspective, which, however, Raffaela has always been willing to discuss together. Her advice and photography tips have helped me to progress considerably, and showed me a way I had never considered before: when she told me that my strongest potential was as a Unit Stills Photographer, she also showed me the all the good work done so far, and I found this very encouraging.

Both from an artistic and from a technical point of view she gave me great advice that made me feel a lot safer when I'm on the set, and the feedback she has given me has been very useful for assessing the type of images I should focus my energies on. "