Watchtower - Limited Edition 1 of 2 Photograph

Pamela Testa (b. 1980) is an italian artist living and working in Abruzzo, a beautiful region located between sea and mountains. She is an emerging photographer who loves Art in all its forms and her images are in some ways inspired by Japanese traditional culture and aesthetic. She graduated in Japanese Language, Art and Culture at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and during her studies she was very impressed by Shintoist and Buddhist Philosophy, above all the concept of Impermanence and the principle of Interdependence. It could be said that in her works there is what in Japanese is called “Mono no Aware”, an expression that literally is translated as “the pathos of things” and indicates that the beauty of things is in their impermanence. Not by chance, she defines photography (and above all her instant photography) like a Japanese haiku, because in its frames it contains the beauty of a fragment of life, unique and irreplaceable. She is a self-taught photographer and in 2001 she bought her first analogue camera starting the collection of her frames of the world.  In April 2017 she took part in the Fahrenheit39 Festival in Ravenna, Italy, with her first photo-book “A Quiet Place to Live”, a collection of instant images she made in 2016. She was also selected in the online section of “Circuito Off” European Photography Festival 2017, with her work about time and memory.  In August 2017 she has been interviewed by Underexposed Magazine on her photographic work. In November 2012 she took part in a selected collective exhibition of instant photography at the Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin, within the framework of the 5th European Month of Photography.