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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: michela chimenti
FOGGINESS
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In 2019 I lost my job. Depression suddenly visited me. I tried to survive by forcing me to have a decent routine just to trick my mind and show her that, after all, everything's ok. But the goal was harder than I thought. I live in the Po Valley, a place that can be summed up like "when it's not full of mosquitos it's full of fog". Literally. So, every morning I woke up early in the morning, I wait for some light, then, together with my dog Wilma, I run through the park, along the Ticino river, totally absorbed in a thick white milky fog. Some people said to me "Wow! It's so romantic", but they have no idea what living at the very bottom of a funnel means. It's creepy. It's insane. And it's more insane if you're struggling with depression. Morning after morning, I learn how to run in a surreal location alone with my thoughts and my film camera. The fog helped me to turn off the volume of my mind. When you can't see anything, you're forced to see yourself. The fog won. This is the best I could do with my disease. Then the pandemic lockdown occurred and the fogginess remained.
About author:
I’ve never won a World Press Photo or an Academy Award. I’ve never taken pictures to V.I.P. and I can’t afford the camera I wish I had. Despite all of this, during the last 39 years, I’ve never stopped collecting in my backpack all the tools I need to express myself. Photography, painting, writing and filming. From the intangibility of fine art to the realism of reportage, time after time, I’ve explored what makes me feel good. Born in 1981 in Northern Italy, from a family of the South, I’m a photojournalist taking care of social relevant topics such as the geopolitics of Middle East and Asia, LGBTQI* rights and gender gap issues. In the last 12 years, I worked as video producer for media agencies in Milan and Rome, and for Endemol Shine Italy. In 2019, I decided to focus my efforts on the above-mentioned social interests. I dedicated myself to the creation and production of original ducumentaries, both photo and video.
About author:
I’ve never won a World Press Photo or an Academy Award. I’ve never taken pictures to V.I.P. and I can’t afford the camera I wish I had. Despite all of this, during the last 39 years, I’ve never stopped collecting in my backpack all the tools I need to express myself. Photography, painting, writing and filming. From the intangibility of fine art to the realism of reportage, time after time, I’ve explored what makes me feel good. Born in 1981 in Northern Italy, from a family of the South, I’m a photojournalist taking care of social relevant topics such as the geopolitics of Middle East and Asia, LGBTQI* rights and gender gap issues. In the last 12 years, I worked as video producer for media agencies in Milan and Rome, and for Endemol Shine Italy. In 2019, I decided to focus my efforts on the above-mentioned social interests. I dedicated myself to the creation and production of original ducumentaries, both photo and video.