Le Donne di Picasso

The project was conceived to reveal the stories of 8 women, who were part of Pablo Picasso’s life and strongly influenced his work. Almost all of them were submitted by the power of the love they dedicated to the painter, often with dramatic consequences. Very attractive women, some belonging to the world of the artists, some others extremely young and ignoring who they were facing, they became in turns - but also more than one at a time - his muses, models, mistress, sacrificial victims. The locations were chosen based on the research of their psychological traumas and a study in depth of their personalities post-Picasso. The choice of the self-portraiture was moved by the necessity to identify with the personality of each woman. Although very different from each other, they stay linked by the same draining love they felt for the artist. The work has been done in analogue medium format film.

Cristina Vatielli (b. Rome) is an Italian photographer, artist and filmmaker. After graduating from the Scuola Romana di Fotografia in 2004 she came into photography first working as an assistant and in post-production for many prominent photographers, including Paolo Pellegrin, Robbin Hammond, Pablo Ernesto Piovano, Franco Pagetti, Emiliano Mancuso and went on to producing her personal projects. In her personal work Cristina is remixing documentary approach to historical and social issues with research and elements of staged performance to recreate historical events and characters.