Photographs cover a special role in everyone’s life, as the eternal gaze of a guardian who shares with us every important moment, from the first instant we come into the world to when we leave the scene. Personally, beyond documenting important phases of my life, photography has also been the perfect tool of my visual activism.Through my photography, I resist to the passing of time, I resist to oblivion, I resist to silence.
I consider my entry into Photography closely linked with my de-sire to travel and explore those thousands of parallel worlds that exist perhaps to feed that need to search for ourselves inherent in the human soul. For me it made sense, and it still does, to do so in the exploration of the other, in seeking myself in diversity.
I therefore decided to start an university studies in photography at the University of Applied Sciences Europe in Berlin, where I understood, through the study of the history of photography, the power that this universal language has in being able to change the world. I focused myself to photojournalism and documentary photography; my works often deal with issues of resilience of fractured and marginalize communities.
More recently, I started a long-term project called “Shred the patriarchy” focuses on women and their fight of patriarchy through skateboarding and how the skate subculture can be a tool to promote empowerment and social inclusion. The women I met and their stories are brave examples of how skateboarding enables the marginalized to realize and confirm their identities, and they can inspire other people to choose to free themselves in the empowerment of other women through skateboarding.
My work has been exhibited internationally and awarded in the Maghreb Photography Awards, Prize of Huffpost Italia, Contemporarte UHU, International Photography Prize Esperanza Pertusa, PassepartoutPrize and more.
