Anima Animus

• Photographer
  Claudia Moroni, United Kingdom

Anima Animus is a long term project exploring the borderline of
gender.
The first part of this project is a series of black and white portraits
of trans* people living in the UK.
Each model has undertaken a journey, transitioning from the sex
they were assigned at birth to the gender they identify with.
All portraits have been shot on film with a large format camera,
taking advantage of the Scheimpflug principle to narrowly focus
on the models' eyes.
This stylistic choice is a visual response to the media's tendencies
to only focus on trans* people bodies, virtually erasing their
identities.

Claudia Moroni is an Italian award-winning portrait photographer, living and working in London.
Her photographs have been published on Wallpaper* magazine, The Guardian, 1883 magazine and Vogue Italia and exhibited nationally and internationally.
With a background in Fine Arts thanks to her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Claudia has a keen interest in the craft of analogue photography, shooting on film with a range of 35mm, medium and large format cameras and printing all of her work in a traditional darkroom.
At the moment, Claudia is dividing her time between commissions and a series of personal projects.
When she's not writing about herself in the third person Claudia likes cooking vegan food, daydreaming and jumping in waterfalls.

Awards Awards:

HumanKind 2010 (shortlisted)
Fujifilm Student Photographer of the Year 2009 (shortlisted)
AOP Student Photographer of the Year 2007 (shortlisted)

Exhibitions:

Occhirossi festival 2013 - Forte Prenestino, Roma (Italy)
Anima Animus - Vol de Nuits, Marseille (FR)
The Good Fashion Show - London House Studio 2454, London (UK)
HumanKind @ NY Photography Festival - The PowerHouse Arena, NYC (USA)
Helios VIII - The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle (UK)
13 Red Boxes @ Free Range - The Old Truman Brewery, London (UK)
CCAD Graduate Show - CCAD, Hartlepool (UK)
Migraction 2009 - Haxhi Beut Hamam, Peja (Kosovo)
Occhirossi festival 2009 - Forte Prenestino, Roma (Italy)