Emma de Felice
Accidental Attraction
Before specialising in photography I had been studying contemporary art and whilst developing my artistic research, I always tried not to limit myself to the use of a single media to get over the stigmatisation of the photographic medium and to question the role of the photographer. Being born in the late 1990s meant to me, from a very young age, getting used to the presence of images and sometimes taking for granted their presence in my life, the ease with which I can share and communicate through them. Photography is everywhere in everything around us and it does not only lie in the act of taking photographs. Sometimes images themselves come to us, and it is up to us to accept them and be able to read them in a certain way.
yours too).
The cover of This could be my family (and yours too), 2020
I like to work with both analogue and digital photography, as much as I like to work with found images, archive pictures and phone pictures. When it comes to analogue photography, there’s an uncontrollable side and a certain slowdown in the production that I enjoy, giving me time and space to consider other aspects of the work. In 2020, I made a self-published zine called This could be my family (and
Inside double page of the book This could be my family (and yours too), 2020 picturing a portrait of a woman and a child
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