Honorable Mention
Exit Permit from Series: Venice of the Hundred Solitudes
DESCRIPTION
Venice of the hundred Solitudes is a documentary project which explores the duality that Venice has been through during the Covid-19 pandemic.
« Whilst the world was seeing images of dolphins in the canals, the truth of the Venetian lockdown is also one of deep solitude. An ageing city plagued by mass tourism, Covid 19 has been to Venice both a blessing and a curse. The space to breathe and move freely, to reclaim the city had its own real downsides.
The duality left me with a desire to portray Venice through the Venetians. To delve behind the picture-perfect postcards of one of the most fetishized cities on the planet, to capture what is left behind when everyone stops looking ».
AUTHOR
Sophie Fauchier specialises in fine art photography and uses narratives to explore her personal experiences as a woman. Building on these experiences she also branches out into documenting the lives of others, particularly as they relate to motherhood. she travels to collect visual stories for documentary and humanitarian thematic such as orphans’ victims of Aids in Kenya, landmines victims in Bosnia and more recently secondary education for child brides in Rajasthan. All these experiences lead her into a new narrative about being a woman as mother, as daughter even in a more complex context.
Settled in Venice for the last 5 years, her new documentary project explores the duality that Venice faced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
She immerses the viewer into the quieter and somewhat lonelier underbelly of one of the most fetishized cities on the planet.
