Biografy
Francesca Papaianni
Ricadi – Italy
Calabrian, lives with the sea on the horizon and the desire to go and discover the world. The passion for photography was born with the journey as an emotional memory of the experiences lived. A psychologist in life, she works with emotions and in portrait photography she finds “the other”, with his interiority, the normality of a life that does not pose as a pose. She highlights that common thread that unites everyone and everything in the difference of places and cultures. Her images bring “there and then” to relive what was experienced and make the atmosphere feel even to those who were not there.
The Project
Views of other worlds
The look is our way of grasping the present, it is our interiority that we offer to the world and it is the mirror of the interiority of the other. With the look we communicate our emotional state but also the relationship with the other by regulating our being in the world. It is the look that attracts attention when we observe others and my interest, both human and photographic, is activated by the look. Sad and tired looks, sweet, curious or frightened looks, resigned looks that push away and looks that bring closer: all of them, however, involve those who exchange that look with their own.
