1863/1963

• Photographer
  Raffaella Castagnoli, Italy
• Website
  http://www.raffaellacastagnoli.it

I started this project thinking of the year of my birth, to my name and being a woman. Pre-Raphaelitism found itself poised between nostalgia for the past and excitement about the future, showed in their paintings a return to nature with an accurate, almost photographic representation of reality. Their works focused on atmosphere, female beauty, death and an aesthetic vision of art among other things. So I choose some famous paints of woman done in 1863 or done by painter born in 1863 (100 year before the year of my birth) or made by Pre-Raphaelite' painters to be superimposed on my selfie.

My works belong to the world surrounding me and I use everyday experiences as a starting point. Often these are extrapolated fragments from my daily life that would go unnoticed in their original context, moments that exist to find poetic meaning in everyday life and through them I try to lead the observer to ask himself questions, into a world of ongoing equilibrium between what articulates the stream of daily events and what could be different. I try to establish a link between the reality and what is imagined by me through aesthetics and the neverending searching of beauty.

Awards 2018 Winner "3° Portfolio sul Po” Torino

2014 
Winner Premio HF – Rosignano Foto Festival – Rosignano Marittimo
Selected for “Codice MIA” Milano Fair Art
Winner “Creatività e speranza” Galleria Spazio23 Genova

2013 
Selected for “Codice MIA” Milano Fair Art

2012 
Winner “IX Seravezza Fotografia” – Seravezza – Lucca

3° ex-aequo “11° Portfolio dell’Ariosto” – Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
2° place “12° Spazio Portfolio”64° Congresso Nazionale FIAF, Garda

2011 
Winner ex-aequo 11° “Spazio portfolio” – 63° Congresso Nazionale FIAF, Torino

2010 
Winner ex- aequo 4° “Penisola di luce”, Sestri Levante
mentioned “10° Spazio Portfolio” 62° Congresso Nazionale FIAF Carrara
selected “1° Portfolio dello Strega” - Sassoferrato – AN