Face of our Time

"Face of our time" is an anthology of portraits of people of the suburbs represented as microcosm and synecdoche for the whole world. Behind each and every subject there is a unique, significant and peculiar story of COVID and resilience.

"Face of our time" is a project based on posed portraits that takes shape in 2021 as a reflection about the alienating effect of face masks on our perception of "the others".
Intrigued by how my brain was constantly trying to re-construct an ideal image of those strangers I was meeting in my everyday life, creatively filling that "square void" caused by the face masks, I began collecting studio shots of noses, cheeks and mouths of people around me.
But the deeper I went into it, the stronger I felt the urge to tell the stories of those women and men I was meeting and talking with during the studio sessions.
As an evolution of the initial idea, I decided to shoot them again, in a place having a strong relationship with their COVID stories, holding a framed print from our first encounter in their arms.