Federica Bizzarri

Federica Bizzarri was born in 1966 in Corinaldo where she spent her childhood. At the age of 14 he moved to Florence and entered the college of SS Annunziata to attend the Linguistic High School.
At the end of his studies he returned to the Marches to work in the family business. In 2001 the first of his four children was born and he bought his first camera.

She began to photograph casually to document the life of her family and in particular of her four children. The aim was to create an album of memories where the images of life over the years were collected. After seeing the photographs of the American Sally Mann, they had impressed her and she wanted to do something similar too. The two series "Beauties in the bathroom" and "Portraits in grass" were born, on which he is still working. They are mainly portraits of her children and grandchildren in black and white, portrayed in the garden of the family home or in the water, playing or simply looking at her. The interest in photography of flowers has arrived only recently and perhaps it was an inevitable step given the passion that Federica Bizzarri has inherited for flowers from her mother. She loves to photograph them above all when they have lost the splendor of their flowering: shriveled, stained, with some defects, on the verge of returning to the earth. Their decay is the reflection of the passing of time and of our own life. Through these photographs, which become form and sculptural expression, the viewer appreciates an interpretation of beauty that goes beyond the obvious. "Gust of wind" is an invitation and an energy to fre...