Since the beginning, Federica Landi has perceived photography in a perspective of construction: just like a painting is a group of signs and a poem is a set of words, so photography is an ensemble of shots. Every single shot must be perfect and in harmony with the others in order to express the concept and tell the story behind them all.

Federica's initial projects investigate the body, often naked and portrayed in the form closest to nature, and the identity matter that arises out of the comparison with the natural entity made up of fragments more than a unique answer.
She also utilized the technique of self portrait a lot and performative strategies in front of the camera as devices to explore identity issues.
The project Root marks an important stage in Federica's practice where the main focus shifted from her body and persona to her mother's.
This work, which is a collaboration with Federica and her mother Paola, wants to explore and question the rigid role and status of the mother.
The project is articulated in three series of pictures each of whom is developed through a different photographic techniques: Polaroid Transfer, Cynotype and Silver Emulsion of wood.
For each technique corresponds a fragment of Paola's identity: her memory as a girl, her desires as a woman rather than a mother.
Her recent works investigate the complex relationship between the man and his environment with a particular focus on the symbology contained into the Mediterranean landscape. Working around concepts such as affect and desire, absence and reminiscence, she creates a visual language that turns the space into an allegoric dimension where colours and lights build new and intimate dialogues.

Federica Landi is an Italian visual artist working mainly in photography.
She spent three years in Florence where she got her BA in Visual Art with a specialization in etching at the Academy of Fine Art and, at the same time, she attended courses of photography at the America institute Santa Reparata International School of Art.
In 2009 she left Italy for London, working as freelance photographer and attending an MA in photography at London College of Communication.
Beside participating in several group shows in Europe, USA and Uk, Federica was part of the selected artists exhibited in the London Underground during the Diamond Jubilee 2012 and her work has been published by the online PhotoVogue Italy, and on-line magazines such as F-STOP, DUST and SOURCE.
Federica joined the photographic agency Millennium Images one year ago as manager of the fine art /print sale division; she also covers the role of curator and organizer of fine art exhibitions (London and Paris) .
Federica's pictures are represented by Millennium Images.

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The Agony Project

The Agony Project is one of the main works by the Italian photographer Giulio Asso. The project was born while researching a way to reflect in an single picture a specific feeling, trying to go beyond the “portraiture standards”.

The images show the interior uneasiness of the photographer, represented by a female body bond to the dark surrounding. The purity of her white and smooth skin fights with the black ribbons, symbol of the "soft" denial, that refers to a psychological suffering. The bondage doesn't allow to the subject to move away from the scene, rather she is stuck in position like a statue. There is no one else controlling the bondage in the scene, symbol of the chains that our brain make up on its own.

The texture project

Abandoned places and decadent location are the main subject for these pictures. The harsh surrounding hits the purity of the soft and smooth skin, which eventually becomes part of it. The meaning is the inner decadence of people, victims of society, and their slow decay until they became a perfect match with their landscape of wrecks.

The pictures are done mixing together different photography techniques.

The images are done on location, putting real ribbon over the model (agony project) or posing against the walls (texture project). Further more there are several postproduction techniques in order to achieve a dark and gloomy look and the over detailed effect.

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