About

I, Matthias Spadin, a free­lance pho­tog­ra­pher liv­ing in Tai­wan since 2004, cre­ated spadin.eu as a way of shar­ing my insight and expe­ri­ences of pho­tog­ra­phy, deliv­er­ing the con­cept of the art of pho­tog­ra­phy. It is cov­ered many aspects: peo­ple, fash­ion, beauty, edi­to­r­ial, cul­tural, travel and the joy of tak­ing photos.

It all began over 20 years ago. On a trip to Italy with my friend and a sec­ond­hand cam­era, loaded with black and white films to doc­u­ment my trip and dis­cov­ered my pas­sion of pho­tog­ra­phy. Dur­ing the past years and the growth of the Inter­net, I got more and more influ­enced by pho­tog­ra­phers world­wide. Their art work inspired me and their hon­est and open shar­ing of their experience.

I joined work­shops to learn from mas­ters around the world to improve my tech­niques and skills in pho­tog­ra­phy and light­ning.
With Bryan Peter­son, I learned to achieve great cre­ative results with just sim­ple meth­ods and this still applies to every­thing.
I learned the light­en­ing skills with Joe McNally, who teaches the best light­en­ing work­shops and boot camps I have expe­ri­enced so far.
Those are just the high­lights. In between, I’ve learned a lot about pho­tog­ra­phy, I’ve exper­i­mented with many ways to expose, I’ve devel­oped myself as a pho­tog­ra­pher and I’m cer­tainly am not at my peak.
I look for­ward to con­tinue to learn, explore and improve in the years to come…