Photographer
Vanessa Lucrezia Francia (1994) is an Italian Photographer. Her personal research employs a reflective and playful approach to address questions of identity, roles and intergenerational gaps.
Photographer and editor
Italian
Paprika as a symbol of cultural and familiar reappropriation of east European culture. An observation on how habits, tastes, memories, personalities and similarities can nevertheless persist and be passed down through the generations.
THIS IS MY MANUAL ON HOW TO BECOME A GOOD GIRL, OR AT LEAST HOW TO SURVIVE UNTIL 30 AS A WOMAN IN A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY. WHILE OBSERVING MY FAMILY ARCHIVE I STOP TO OBSERVE ON HOW THE HAND GESTURES CONSTANTLY UNDERLINE THE DAILY RELEVANT SITUATIONS.
A project born as a provocation is becoming a reconnection to my familiar environment, through a playful process, trying to bring to light the unspoken words, the silent dreams, everything that accompanied us both as a family and as single individuals.