Open Theme nominee

This photograph aims to visually narrate the conflictual relationship with one’s own body through exposed fragility, painful introspection, and the dialogue between light and shadow as a metaphor for emotional ambivalence. The body becomes a cage, a battlefield where emotions that are difficult to manage are concentrated: guilt, shame, anger, need for control.
Guilt, in particular, can take root deeply: for having eaten, for not being ‘enough’, for not being able to correspond to an ideal that is often inaccessible.
The dark environment aims to recall an existential solitude and the intimacy of an unspoken pain.
The painting on the wall depicts a serene landscape, in contrast with the restlessness of the subject: a possible distance between reality and desire. The portrait on the right can evoke judgment or expectation from others, or even a symbol of an internal confrontation with a child self that is no longer there.

Born in Sicily in 1974.
She begins with a passion for the landscape, passing through Street Photography and Reportage, to arrive at the Portrait of which follows various workshops with Italian and international Masters including Giovanni Gastel and Mustafà Sabbagh. She then continued his studies on Fashion Photography and Post Production at the prestigious Kaverdash Academy of Photography in Milan, where she further refined lighting, shooting and editing techniques.
Awards:

• 2024 Honorable Mention Monochrome Photography Awards. Portrait Category
• 2024 Honorable Mention BIFA Contest 2024, People-Portrait Category
• 2024 Honorable mention Monovision Awards, Portrait Category
• 2023 Gold Winner TIFA, Portrait Category
• 2023/2024 Nominee FAPA, Portrait Category
• 2023/2024 Nominee FAPA, People Category
• 2023 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards, Portrait Category
• 2023 Finalist Hipa Contest, Portrait Category
• 2022 Honorable Mention IPA Contest 2022, Portrait Category
• 2022 Honorable Mention BIFA Contest 2022, Portrait Category
• 2022 Finalist Imago Photocontest Orbetello (GR) 2022, Portrait Category
• 2022 5TH PLACE WINNER HIPA CONTEST 2021-2022, Portrait Category
• 2022, Honorable mention Monovision Awards, Nature and Wildelife Category
• 2021 Honorable Mention Monochrome Photography Awards. Portrait Category
• 2021 Honorable Mention Chromatic Awards, Fashion and Beauty Category