CErti meetings, you know, can change their lives. Even when everything seems lost. Adriano Alia He knows it well. Today is for everyone Bianca Balti’s photographer But in his past I am a shop and prison. Just in prison he took his first card machine in his hand. And there he discovered the passion for photography thanks to which he gave a change to his life. “It’s my second huge opportunity,” he said to Corriere della Seratelling his story.
Who is Adriano Alia, Bianca Balti’s photographer
“Black sheep of a respectable familyjournalist father, mother stylist. After the high school I only thought about the good life: discos, travel, restaurants. I attended wrong lapsI started selling marijuana because I saw easy money ». Adriano Alia describes itself to Courier. Milanese, 30 years old, is arrested for drug dealing. And in prison everything changes everything thanks to a photography course.
«Diego Sileo, director of the contemporary art pavilion of Milan, and photographer Amedeo Novelli, Sony ambassador, present themselves. The PAC and the ONLUS RI-SCATTI launched A photography course among the prisoners supported by the Municipality of Milan, Tod’s and the LCA law firm. I candidate».
The first shots to Tony Effe
On August 18, 2023 Adriano Alia leaves prison. “I was afraid”reveals. But thanks to the family and friends he finds strength and courage to cultivate that talent just discovered. «They are the ones who told me: can you take pictures? Go ahead! I didn’t believe it so much, I fuck. They led me to buy the first car of mine: I chose an analogue, because “Digitali do everyone”. My technique remains: I use the roll, you have to wait for development ».
Then the first meetings and the first photos arrive. “I knew Bresh, Tedua, I followed them. I was in Rome for a Tedua show e I met the manager of Tony Effe, Gianmarco Barbieri, who then recalls me in September: do you portray Tony in Verona? Giulia De Lellis arrives in the van. They would have been the first shots of the couple, on which the gossip went crazy ».
And it was Tony Effe who attracted it for «The web cover on Vanity Fair of 27 September ». Other services follow and his career begins. “I started to keep myself as a photographer.”
Adriano Alia and the meeting with Bianca Balti
The meeting that gives a turn to his career as a photographer, however, is the one with Bianca Balti. Meeting that occurred casually in Sanremo. «The intersection that comes out of a restaurant. “White can I take you a photo?”. A few days later I wake up: Bianca Balti follows you on Instagram. I couldn’t believe it, I got courage and I wrote to her. She replied immediately ».
Bianca Balti is not only the top model of the moment but the person of the moment for resilience and courage in the fight against illness. And she puts him In contact with his manager asking him for some shots during the Milan Fashion Week. «I was a tesissimo. I said to myself: I am nobody and a photo of Bianca Balti will be everywhere and if I am wrong it is the end », Risla Adriano alia reveals.
When I told her I had been in prison
Bianca Balti at Valentino Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Show-Paris Fashion Week (IPA)
A fear combined with the fear of having to reveal to the supermodel that “I took the photography course in prison. That I was in jail». And instead … “He didn’t make a turn, he was curious. It’s fantastic. He contacted me to follow her in March also in Paris, For Valentino’s fashion shows: I had the Badge of accredited photographer (also these images, thanks to the repost of the top model with many hearts, have become viral) », Roneta Adriano Alia reveals, still incredulous for everything that happened to him.
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