The earliest document of Fredi Marcarini's interest in photography is a Super 8 home movie showing him at the age of 4 years old, pretending to shoot pictures with a non-existent camera and using his father's tripod.
His education was accompanied by a succession of jobs including petrol station attendant, bartender, builder and waiter but also worked in a photo studio shooting still life, and later, whilst attending military service, as a crime scene photographer in the police force.
Marcarini taught himself photography through experimentation, and gradually started to put his work together into a portfolio, initially selling images to magazines and advertising agencies and eventually gaining commissions.
After a decade spent as a food photographer in the 80s, he switched to portraiture, a field in which he found his real passion and developed his style.
[1][2] [3] Marcarini's dramatic photographic style has been employed to capture images of many of Italy's most prominent personalities [4] as well as global celebrities including Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Philippe Starck, Sir Richard Branson,[5] Jack Vettriano[6] and Tracy Chevalier.