I recently came across the work of Italian photographer Giacomo Cosua, and enjoyed it so much that I thought I'd do a little mini-feature today instead of my usual one image. Giacomo is a young professional actually in the industry, whose work has been featured now in such places as Vanity Fair, GQ Italia, and the 2006 Venice Biennial, and who is also the editor-in-chief of his own magazine, called POSI+TIVE. Giacomo was kind enough to answer a few of my questions as well, which I'm running below. I definitely encourage you to check out both his official website and Flickr account whenever you have a chance.

What led to you doing photography, and why do you like it so much?

When i was thirteen i had some photography lessons at school. When i learned how to develop a photo, waiting for the image to come up printed on paper, smelling the papers, i understood that i'll take photography into my life. After a few years i stopped thinking about photography, i didn't find more inspirations and i didn't like the photos that i had done. But when i found a compact digital camera five years ago i started taking photos again, and since that day, i'm still thinking everyday about photography. It was first a hobby and now it's also a part of my job. At the same time i started again working on film cameras. I just bought a Contax T2 and i can't wait to use it! I like photography just because i can show to others my stories and my way to represent reality.

I see in your bio that you've lived in a number of big cities around the world. What did you think of them, and how do they compare to Venice, where you are right now?

Venice, it's a quite complicated city, but i still love it everyday. I was born here and i can say that i'm pretty lucky. I was living in Germany during my Erasmus period. It was quite important for me living there for six months because i discovered again photography. It's quite difficult to compare Osnabrueck with Venice, they are so different! I love the "Osna" snow. The Sunday mornings there are quite relaxing also, because everything is closed, nobody around the streets, and you can just have a quiet walk in the same street where usually there are a lot of people buying everything from the shops. I'm in Venice right now but i'm planning to move to London, i'm waiting on an answer to know my future...

What kinds of things do you like shooting the most, and why? Your photos are a combination of things and people; which of these do you like shooting the most?

It's quite difficult to answer. I don't know what i like exactly to shoot more. People are always telling you a lot when you do a portrait -- inside a portrait you can feel sensation, thinking, doubts, fears, joy and whatever, just looking at the picture. [They say that] every photo tells a story...and it's so true, and you can say that also for the things that i shoot in my life. Also things are telling you a story, you have just to understand the best moment to shoot them, if they are interesting or not, and thinking why others will like that thing or not. Sometimes you can take a photo just for personal reasons, and it's not so obvious that the others can understand your reasons. The perfect photo for me it's when you are able to connect buildings and people just in one shot.