The Christian | Limited Edition (8) + 1 artist's proof Photograph

I work with photography, text and videos. In Italy I took a degree in Economics, spending some time in the corporate world, before moving to London in 2008. In London, at Central St Martin’s College of Art, I graduated with a certificate in Photographic Professional Practice. Then I completed my training in the rough and tumble school of professional freelance press photography, and as a paparazzi, for three years. Since 2013 I’ve been working in London on photographic projects with people. Rather than using my camera as a barrier or separation between myself and the subject, I give total freedom to the person.They present themselves as they are without any imposition. Photography can be used as a therapeutic medium, to confront oneself first of all.​The camera became for me, paradoxically, a means of capturing and revealing the invisible. I was driven to explore people’s depths by an urge for self-discovery - through conversations with strangers, met either online or on the street. I decided to look at people’s stories, that might raise uneasy truths about sexuality, gender equality, prejudice, love, physical and psychological abuse, negative thinking, illness. ​In the act of using the camera, photography can become almost performative : a live process, where art is realised at the instant of encounter with another human being. And the photographs produced are merely documentation of that encounter. My art practice becomes an investigation into the power of trust in human relationships. ​In 2018 I became a member of Action Hybride, a collective of international artists based in Paris. The purpose of the collective is to organise interviews, films, exhibitions, performances, talks, concerning the body, memory and the human condition. ​