Women of Meridione
Strength in the Deep South

Ornella Mazzola

A selection of images from different projects that I carry out that represent women at different times and in various places.

My work focuses on southern Italy in general and on Palermo and the province in particular. The female universe interests me, in its various facets of life. The South, the rarefied province, the mysterious and strong women, the sea, the cracks, the life.

 

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

The deep south of Italy: Naples, Palermo, Taranto, the Sicilian coast of the Mediterranean Sea, these are the areas that I photograph.

Places with a strong soul, where the sea connects with the strength of women. In the South of Italy passion and dignity along with spirituality and suspension can be seen through the cracks of the walls.

 

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola

Ornella Mazzola was born in Sicily, near Palermo, in 1984. 
She studied Art History and Documentary Cinema at the University La Sapienza of Rome. The subject of her thesis was Visual Anthropology: an experimental thesis carried forward together with the documentarist and anthropologist Vittorio De Seta.

She has worked in the field of museum exhibits as multimedia image researcher, copywriter and photographer.

A scholarship at Scuola romana di fotografia gave her the initiative to continue to deepen, as self-taught, the passion for photography. In this way she started to explore the world of photography, naturally, from the visual research to socio-anthropological aspect inherent in it.

She carries out different kinds of projects: personal research, social photography, reportage, intimate stories.

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ARTPIL / Prescription .142
White heat. A Green River.
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Rencontres d’Arles 2023
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Edith Dekyndt / L’Origine des Choses
Feb 8 – Dec 12, 2023
Inspired by Bruno Latour’s “actants” Edith Dekyndt defines her compositions and her objects as “patient” because all these objects...
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Dorothea Lange. Tales of Life and Work
Camera / Jul 19 – Oct 8, 2023
Dorothea Lange's photography, now nearly a hundred years later, continues to resound in its portrayal of a time and...
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Momentum 12: Together As To Gather
Jun 10 – Oct 8, 2023
For the biennale, Tenthaus practices a gathering methodology. The intention is to begin from the practices of the artists...
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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Sep 28, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024
American Prospects has enjoyed a life of acclaim. Its pages are filled with unexpected excitement, despair, tenderness and hope. Its fears are expressed in beauty, its sadnesses in irony.
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REGENERATE
Jun 23 – Dec 10, 2023
With REGENERATE as its theme, the festival brings together works that explore the changes modern society must face, seeing...
+
The Unspoken Things
Photo Series
The Unspoken Things series is inspired by ethnographic texts that deal with the body as a cultural phenomenon, drawing...
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ARTPIL / Prescription .142
White heat. A Green River.
A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August. Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow
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Rencontres d’Arles 2023
A State of Consciousness
Every year, Rencontres d’Arles captures our world’s state of consciousness. Its photographers, artists, and curators help us to see...
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Edith Dekyndt / L’Origine des Choses
Feb 8 – Dec 12, 2023
Inspired by Bruno Latour’s “actants” Edith Dekyndt defines her compositions and her objects as “patient” because all these objects...
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