Italian version
Fatima Abbadi a Jordanian-Palestinian / Italian freelance photographer , born
and raised in Abu Dhabi. She moved to Padua (Italy) in 1997 for her university studies, where she works and lives now. Since 2005 she started a complex BW photo documentation reserch about women in varoius enviroments. This project consists in a continuous research of
femininity in everyday life, seen through the eyes of a photographer who belongs to two different cultures, European and Middle Eastern.
Her work strives to "capture" and extract nuances of expression and sensitivity in the female face. All her works is photographed with an analogic camera with a 35 mm film and then developed in the old tradtional way in the darkroom.
Since 2009 in Italy she's a member of MIGNON group (http://www.mignon.it/) which is cultural association that promotes a
photographic project directed towards investigating the every day, man and his environment. this research is called Street Photogrpahy.
Here is the list of her exhibitions done in Italy:
Solo exhibitions :
1 "Ritratti" - Padova June 2008
2 "Punti di Vista" - Roma Dicember 2009
3 "Rotondità" - Roma January 2010
4 "Ritratti" - Sherwood OpenArt - Padova June 2010
5 "Ritratti" - SolarExpo Verona May 2010
6 "Ritratti" - SolarExpo Monaco June 2010
7 "Women Through My Lens" - Amman, Jordan in January 2011 under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Amman
8 "Portraits" – Padua (Italy) March 2011
9 "Women Through My Lens" – Rome(Italy) October 2011
10 "Women Through My Lens" – Tolentino(Italy) November 2011
Exhibitions with Mignon :
1 "Calendario Mignon 2009" Castelfranco Veneto ITALY
2 "Le nuove vie di Porto Marghera" - VEGA Parco Scientifico Tecnologico, Venice March 2009
3 “PONTEGGIANDO” - Centro Altinate Padova October 2009
4 “SOGNARE DI DONNE” (Libro edito da Polyorama) - Caltagirone September 2009 - Roma April 2010 - Gemona July 2010
5 “Interagire con scatto: sette fotografi e un dipinto del ‘700” - Cà Cornera Rovigo Dicember 2009
NewsPapers
- "Veneto & Veneto"
-"ilmediterraneo"
Works an projects accomplished in 2010 / 2011
• Short Film Festival “Corti a Ponte” May 2011
Took part at "Corti A Ponte Short Film Festival" as a member of the jury. I was responsable of the photography selection. http://cortiaponte.it/
• Kamal Musallam Photo Session and album release 2011
Took part with the musician Kamal Musallam (www.kamalmusallam.com) with his recording photo session pictures inserted in the leaflet of his latest album "Songs for Seung-Eun"
• Story Book for Punto Ottico 2011
Took part with a female group of Bassano and Verona (Punto Ottico) in creating a sort of photo-story book. This book aims to promote various brands of eyewear in the form of picture story / history, advertising, and various optical tips for healthy sight.
Women Through My Lens Project
is a first collection of a large photographic project which consists in a continuous research of femininity in everyday life, seen through the eyes of a photographer that belongs to two different cultures, European and Middle Eastern. This work strives to "capture" and extract nuances of expression and sensitivity in the females face.
This first selected works represent women in various everyday life situations, in the street, and in portrait. It evokes the essence of femininity through the camera so that smiles, reactions and spontaneous situations are unexpectedly locked in time. These locked moments communicate emotions and personal life story which are unique in every shot, and which only a woman’s imagination or a sensable soul could be aware of.
About her
Fausta Genziana Le Piane
http://www.wandamontanelli.it/CdD/artecr/2011/wom.htm
Comune di Tolentino
http://www.comune.tolentino.mc.it/?p=32125
PaeseSera.it
http://www.paesesera.it/Cultura-e-spettacolo/Arte-fotografia/Women-through-my-Lens-Le-donne-di-Fatima-Abbadi
