Nudes nominee

It is not just about a body. All in all, a body alone is just a body, even if it is a beautiful body.
It is about more than that though. It is about using self-portraiture as a means to go beyond the body, beyond the surface and discover what is in the depths of the soul.
With this series Laetitia, at a fragile and delicate time in her life, wanted to explore and go in search of this warrior of light within herself.
The warrior of light is something we all have, inside of us.
It is a kind of entity that, in times of greatest difficulty gives us the strength we need to react and move forward. It is always with us, in our daily battles, and constantly guides us and help us to find our inner Truth. It spurs us to always go all the way, makes us overcome our limitations.

Laetitia Farellacci (1977) is an Italian-French photographer whose research has developed over more than twenty-five years as a space for personal and visual exploration.
Growing up in the silence of the darkroom, she explored various photographic languages until she found her own expressive territory in self-portraiture and the forms of nature. Her practice investigates themes related to roots, identity, and memory, gradually opening up to a vision in which the separation between subject and world is blurred.
Her Corsican origins have profoundly influenced her sensibility: the island where she grew up until adolescence continues to permeate her work through atmospheres, contrasts, light, and matter.

The self-portrait becomes for her an instinctive space for experimentation, in which the body is an instrument of listening and crossing over. Each project stems from a process of perception and inner transformation that translates into a visual narrative capable of going beyond the individual story, opening up to a broader and shared dimension of experience.