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 act 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.
Visio Mentis Project
Catanzaro Ex Stac 15-22 March 2025
The Project
Women
I love traveling to meet the new, new landscapes, new cultures, different ways of living life. The encounter with the new allows me to mix up my relationship with the world and with the events and people met on travels. Sometimes even just an exchange of glances stays inside me and reactivates emotions and prompts thoughts. The photos here present represent women from different countries of the world met in recent years. Each of them reminds me of special moments because in all of them the feeling of sweetness prevails, whether it is Namibia, Vietnam, Bangladesh or Kenya. From their faces, from their expressions, from their glances a serene acceptance of life shines through, the ability to face the days and family needs, the transport towards others, loved ones or strangers. From all of them I felt accepted and a sincere curiosity for my life and my story. To all of them I dedicate my sincere thanks.
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Catanzaro Ex Stac 15-22 March 2025
Visio Mentis Project
Tropea 2-9 August 2024
The Project
Looks 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, human and photographic, is activated on the look. Sad and tired looks, sweet curious or frightened looks, resigned looks that push away and looks that bring closer: all, however, involve those who exchange that look with their own.
