Honorable Mention
Too much, too little, never right
DESCRIPTION
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.
AUTHOR
Born in Sicily in 1974. She graduated in Psychology in Rome and specialized in psychotherapy and phototherapy. Her passion for photography began when she was a child thanks to her father who loved to portray her often. She began with landscapes, to arrive at Portraiture, a field in which she followed several workshops with Italian and international Masters, such as Giovanni Gastel and Mustafa Sabbagh. She specialized in Fashion Photography at the prestigious Kaverdash Academy in Milan.The projects she carries out move on the border between art and psychology. She is the author of two books: “Io non muoio” and “Noi siamo bellezza”, which are not simple collections of portraits: they are acts of love towards those who often feel invisible. They are emotional journeys where the gaze of the lens becomes a caress, testimony, truth.
With a conceptual language, she is also working on a series of photographic projects aimed at giving shape and face to complex issues such as mental distress, anxiety, depression, dissociation, eating disorders, trauma. Each shot is born from a process of listening and sharing, often in collaboration with the subjects themselves, who become co-authors of the images.
In a world where mental health is still somewhat of a taboo, he believes that art must take on the responsibility of completely breaking the silence. His images aim to be tools of awareness, vehicles of empathy, bridges between those who experience discomfort and those who often fail to understand it.
