love, sex and relationships

video gallery​

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love, sex and relationships is a collection of intimate conversations between myself and others. It is a video and photography documentation project that includes questions to myself, couples, and individuals who live or have lived in a relationship involving love, sex, and relationships, mixed with photographs, reflections, thoughts, emotions, and poems.I collected 40 hours of interviews that I used to create a six-hour video documentation. I then captured black-and-white analog photographs with a medium format camera, a Mamiya 6x7.

After six years, the video and photography project of love, sex and relationships has evolved into a book project, which is still in production.

The project was born in London before Brexit and Covid-19, while I was in a love relationship with my ex-boyfriend, who later became violent. To escape the pain and violence, and the sense of helplessness and confusion, I sought out couples and individuals with whom to have intimate conversations about love. I interviewed 25 unknown people using a digital camera, a Canon 5D Mark III.

I visited them in their homes or wherever they preferred to meet.

I wanted to explore what being in a relationship meant to others. I aimed to understand how much each of them could love themselves.

Photography and video documentation also became a journey of self-observation, discovery, and awareness and, in the long term, therapeutic.

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PEOPLE INTERVIEWED

Filiz, single mother

Ganga, divorced after ten years of marriage

Gill and Richard, married for thirty years

Giulia and Edwin, together for 18 years, married for 4

Esperanza, married for 30 years, separated with a daughter

Agnese and Virginia, married for two years

James and Joakim, in a loving relationship

Toni King, single, divorced, with a teen that he can’t see

Robert and Sarah, married for 30 years, with three children

Chris, single

Wen Wei and Valeria, getting married soon after six months of engagement

Giulia and  Diana, in a relationship for two years

Robin and Paola, married for four years

Mum and Dad, married for 45 years with four children

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Each video has a duration ranging from 25 to 50 minutes, for a total of almost six hours.

The video documentation was recorded in London and is in English, with English subtitles.

Through this project, I hope to inspire others to reflect on their own experiences with love and connection.

Visit the Photo Section to explore the black-and-white images that capture the essence of these conversations and emotions.

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