Mick De Paola

Audio/Video Specialist & Photographer

For a long time, I felt like I couldn’t read people. Systems, on the other hand, made perfect sense: signals, protocols, interfaces. I built my experience in the audio/video field by working on system integration, signal routing, synchronization, and AV network management in complex environments, where stability and efficiency are essential. Then photography came along. With a camera between me and reality, I discovered that emotion could take shape in an image. That’s where I found my own grammar: the serenity of symmetry, the balance of lines, the calm that only a precise frame can bring. Today I carry both dimensions with me. On one side, technology—with its logic of protocols and reliable infrastructures. On the other, photography—which allows me to translate emotions and visual stories with the same attention to detail, but with a different kind of breathing space. Two worlds that don’t exclude each other: both speak of connections, whether of signal or of meaning.