Series is exhibited online as part of Brighton Photo Fringe 2020
With Special thanks to” Girl from M” and her friend.
“Girl from M*” is a project, started during my residency at the Fondazione Fotografia in Modena. It was before my camera turned vertical, but before I gathered my courage to approach strangers to ask for one photograph. “Girl from M*” is one of the first frames I took of people with the series in mind. It kept coming back to me as a song you hear in the morning on the radio and which follows you for the rest of the day.
The series is built around that portrait. It is repeated and merged with Sebastiao Salgado’s book: “Children”. The identities that emerge in this process are oscillating between real and surreal. A nostalgic representation of adolescence and childhood; of true and of an imagined; of belonging to a specific country and of borderless interchange. The final work addresses how much of the portrayed is revealed to both the photographer and the viewer. It questions how to represent complex individual histories, sense of self and belonging.
The title of series comes from the 60’s song “Girl from Ipanema” (by Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz).