Like looking through the keyhole, I project myself in the lives of the passengers, and the staff of a grand cruise ship. Using my lenses, I have the opportunity to observe many people, the same and different, giving life an enormous cosmopolitan society amongst the seas.
Every year in Europe cruise ships transport more than 100.000 passengers to every port in the world. These truly amazing cruise ships, brilliant, and shining cities on the seas are small, but contain the most important concentration of people from all over the world. So, whoever you are, whatever your life is, here, you can lose your identity to become part of an enormous mechanism that cycles around and renews itself continually.
It becomes one body, everyone, and no one, without any connection or reality to one’s own being.
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Simona Bonanno was born in Messina, Italy, in 1974, to a family involved in the arts. She received her first camera from her mother when Bonanno was studying photography at the School of Arts in Italy. She has also lived and studied in Paris where she still frequently works. Her photographs have been included in several exhibitions in Europe and abroad.
She currently lives in Messina, Italy.
She currently lives in Messina, Italy.
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