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La feria de Abril, Sevilla 2023
This series has been realised for the Italian newspaper Eco Internazionale Below is the article translated into English The Feria De Abril, one of Spain's biggest and most famous festivals that takes place every year in Seville, has just ended. This festival is a celebration of spring, music, food and wine and Andalusian culture that attracts thousands of visitors from [...]
Housing is not a privilege
Housing is not a privilege is a collaborative photographic project by Alys.theWitch and Ester Di Bona That explores the traces and spaces of homelessness in Palermo, Sicily. The intent is to question the application of Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of [...]
La guerriglia a San Giovanni, i lasciti del G8 e come sono finita nel campo della comunicazione visiva.
La guerriglia a San Giovanni, i lasciti del G8 e come sono finita nel campo della comunicazione visiva Ieri, nel 2011, ero a Roma alla manifestazione contro le banche, il capitalismo e il governo. Il bilancio fu di 135 feriti, di cui 105 tra le forze del disordine e 30 tra i manifestanti. Il Fatto Quotidiano, lo ricordo ancora, scrisse [...]
Favara Cultural Farm
Favara Cultural Farm Twelve years ago Andrea Bartoli and Florinda Saieva created, almost from nothing, a place inspired by principles of education, ecology and the rebirth of an almost completely abandoned territory. In 2012, The Guardian had already been busy reporting on this reality, which over the years has proven to be a winning model, expressing itself in these words, [...]
Women at Work – Dr. Harwood, London 2021
Women at Work – Dr. Harwood, London 2021 I’m Catherine Harwood. I am a medical doctor and a consultant dermatologist, that’s a skin specialist. I’m employed by Barts Health, which is an NHS Trust, and I’m also employed by the Queen Mary University of London, the medical school, and I do both clinical work and research work, most of which [...]
SOMW019: Alongside Montello Factory migrant women workers
Alysvisualart.com in the context of Stories of Migrant Women research 2018/2019 documented the rebellion of a consistent group of female migrant workers. In this report, not only trade union issues emerge but also the gender issue in both the private and social spheres, intersecting with the problem of migration flows, safety in the workplace, and the need for internationalist feminism […]
Is femininity just a semiotic category?
Is femininity just a semiotic category? Photographs taken for the website www.amorphouswellbeing.com Alternative editing - unpublished. A short visual reflection on the balance of black/white and empty/full binarism and the set of meanings and questions that are generated. For instance: is femininity just a semiotic category? Working on an essay. More writing will be attached soon. Honor Oak Park, London [...]
Global Water Dances, London 2021
Global Water Dances Festival 2021 Movitam, Global Water Dances and Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies: “We connect and support a global community of choreographers and dancers to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance”. “Freshwater is the thread that connects everyone and everything on planet Earth. Rivers, streams, lakes and groundwater are all [...]
Interactions- London 2018
Interactions - London 2018 Observing and reflecting on human interactions London is vibrant and I was curious, before moving here, to observe how communication between individuals could be represented in one of the most diverse Capitals in Europe. (Brexit was not effective in 2018) - I moved forward with the observation in 2020 since Social Distancing definitely changed the balance [...]
Fluid Shadows: an intrauterine sensation
Fluid Shadows: AN INTRAUTERINE SENSATION This is a personal exploration of my own body, a personal visual transposition of a very specific physical feeling, experienced differently from woman to woman. This body of work started in 2015 and it is part of a path of self-awareness that wants to visually investigate biology and physicality. Leaving my homeland changed my status [...]
Forced Introspection
Forced Introspection Matching articles intended for Ecointernazionale.com to an abstract photographic series allowed me to explore my own lock-down experience and its impact on my photography practice. This series is to be understood as an emotional flow; I not only wonder about my intimate relationship with photography practice but also how this research can manifest itself if related to a [...]
Isolation and Mental Health
Isolation and Mental Health This series has been created during the lockdown in London - May 2020, which observes mental health issues and reactions of the Italian community in London: one of my first experiments of intersecting newspaper articles and the momentary inability to photograph freely. Experiencing many of the things that the psychologists told me during the interviews. Besides [...]
Dystopian Restlessness
Dystopian Restlessness From my point of view, this work can be considered a necessity dictated by the time before and after COVID. Everything is louder, amplified and the background noise has led me to push my photographic practice beyond the presence of the human figure. A purely interior search made of shapes, lights, shadows, and colours carried on by crossing [...]
Stories of Migrant Women
Stories of Migrant Women What this photographic documentary is all about Being the migratory flow is made up mainly of men, the female reality is told marginally and never by the direct interested parties. To counter the hatred climate generated by a one-way narration, I aimed to leave women protagonists of this phenomenon to be free to take part of [...]
¡πnk! – Reflecting on dynamism, sign, and identity
¡πnk! Reflecting on dynamism, sign, and identity Meanings change and combine in relation to experiences and consequently the perception of them. Observing the body in relation to its particular environmental and cultural contexts highlights the historical vision linked to metamorphosis and dynamism: experimental moments in which the fractures and transitions seem unequivocally revealed. Photography allows us to capture a portion [...]