Francesca Cesari
In the room (Series)
DESCRIPTION
INTRO
In the room is a series of portraits taken in the moment a mother puts her child to sleep through breastfeeding.
The project aims to describe the atmosphere of privacy and symbiosis that surrounds the subjects, particularly focusing on women as powerful and protective figures as well as sensitive and sometimes fragile creatures.
STATEMENT
A secluded and silent place where a mother puts her child to sleep through breast-feeding.
The transition between waking and sleeping, as the fulfilment takes over every resistance and distraction.
The mother’s solid presence consciously supporting the baby’s passage into unconsciousness, renewing the ritual, everlasting gestures of former generations of women.
A suspended time of devotion and tenderness that coexists with the alienating repetitiveness of a daily routine.
These are the main issues explored by the pictures, to describe the atmosphere of a private and symbiotic moment, exclusive of the experience of maternity.
AUTHOR
Francesca Cesari is a freelance photographer based in Bologna, Italy.
With an academic background in Art History, she started as a self-taught photographer and then perfected her skills with a Diploma in Professional Photographic Practice at the London College of Communication.
Her artistic research focuses on people, mostly photographed in interiors with natural light.
The projects she leads mostly concentrate on family, motherhood and human relationships.
Francesca has exhibited in several solo and collective exhibitions and her work has been featured in different magazines and web magazines (GUP magazine, CNN Photo Blog, Behold –Slate’s Photo Blog, Fotografia Magazine, Private - Photo Review, Landscape Stories); she got some Honourable Mentions at the Family of Man Competition 2016, Moscow Photo Awards MIFA 2016 and International Photography Awards IPA 2015 and 2016.
Francesca is a contributor of Luz Photo Agency http://luz.it/authors/francesca-cesari
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