Photography / Film
Selected work
Photographs shaped by travel, stillness, and the lives lived between frames.
StefanoOrlando
Photographer / Line producer
View workHospitality & interiors / Observations
The feeling before service.
I photograph hospitality through atmosphere: the architecture that receives us, the light before dinner, and the quiet choreography of service.
Sarà — Short Film
2025 / Directed by Philipp Berezin
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Sarà — Executive Producing & Backstage Stills
2025 / Short film / Dir. Philipp Berezin
Watch teaser ↗As a young actress prepares for a series of auditions, she disappears into the roles she is trying to embody. Alone in her apartment, recording take after take, the boundaries between performance and reality start to dissolve. With her relationship unraveling and her sense of self slipping away, Sara is forced to confront the one role she cannot escape: her own.
My role
I joined Sarà as Executive Producer and backstage photographer. Between cues, I photographed the life around the lens: marked pages, the hush before a take, a touch of makeup, a slate’s clap, and the quiet faces holding the story.
Full film credits
- Written and directed by
- Philipp Berezin
- Starring
- Silvia Bertocchi & Evgenia Voronina
- Produced by
- Philipp Berezin & Antonio Zappadu
- Executive producers
- Stefano Orlando & Luca Belluardo
- Director of photography
- Nikita Sysoev
- Editors
- Valeriya Romanyuk & Elia Corti
- Sound recordist
- Sasha Mashin
- Sound design
- Evgeny Shchukin
- Original music
- Alberto Ladduca
- Colorist
- Denis Gerasimov
- Script supervisor
- Elisa Cherchi
- 1st assistant camera
- Nina Doronina
- Gaffers
- Luca Guanci & Egidio Prudenzano
- Electrician
- Alessandro Gentili
- 1st assistant director
- Maria Francesca Brancaccio
- 2nd assistant director
- Costanza Cavallo
- Costume designer
- Kat Arias
- Production designer
- Amelia Cirinei
- Make-up & hair
- Anastasia Mekheda & Alina Agafonova
- Behind the scenes
- Dilya London & Stefano Orlando
- Poster
- Daria Bulavina
Special thanks
RecDistrikt — For the generous provision of technical equipment and logistical support, without which this film would not exist.
Kat Arias — For welcoming us into her apartment during the shoot, and for her constant support and trust.
On Lanzarote
Wind over lava. Roads to the self.
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On longing
I get it. The longing for something different. Something hard to define. Je ne sais quoi. Call it nostalgia, call it allure. Lanzarote greeted me with wind and open space. Roads drew silver lines across lava, and the Atlantic kept time against black rock. I came to move, to breathe, to loosen what felt fixed.
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Rooms of Stillness
Among white walls and a green window, palms leaning over a quiet pool, I learned to slow down; a telescope by the glass turned outward looking into an inward search, and simplicity made space for self‑reflection. There's something magical about capturing moments that speak to the soul. Each photograph becomes a vessel for emotion, a bridge between what was and what remains. Through careful observation and patient waiting, I seek to document the authentic connections that define our human experience.
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The road again
Every curve held a choice. I left with pockets full of wind, shoes dusted in ash, and a steadier compass. Freedom wasn’t out there—it was the way I moved through the world.
I photograph the places that stay with us: wind, distance, quiet rooms, and the people within them.