Woman, Caucasian, brown hair

• Photographer
  Una Fotografa, Italy
• Date of Photograph
  online
• Website
  http://www.unafotografa.com

The photography project Donna Caucasica (Caucasian Woman) aims to give a an ironic profile of the modern Western woman by combining each image with an extract taken from 'The Woman's Encyclopaedia', a 20 volume work published in 1963 by Fabbri Editori. Borrowing from the language of stock photography (practically the only type of images featured in magazines), the project traces the stereotypical representation of femininity and, through the use of the self-portrait, gives a nod to the 'profile pic generation.'

• Biography
  Milan based photographer was born in Mantova, Italy in 1977. After graduating in Psychology she studied photography on her own, also following workshops with Larry Fink (with scholarship), Eugene Richards and Mario Cresci. She has been working as assistant of Stefano De Luigi and as adv-producer for Paolo Franco. Since 2007 she is a freelance photographer and her pictures have been published on different magazines. In 2010 she was shortlisted in the Architecture category of the Sony World Photography Award, with her project on the Socialist monuments in Bulgaria and was featured in the Photo of the day blog by PDN's editors.