In your place

• Prize
• Photographer
  Ludovica Bastianini, Italy

"According to estimates by the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), 13.5 million girls worldwide each year are forced to get
married before turning 18 years old with men that are much older
than them: 37,000 girls every day to whom, in fact, childhood is
denied". How can I interact with such a thing? I thought about what
would a mother feel while dressing her daughter to go away and
get married so young. I took some photos of very young models
from some fashion magazines and I dressed them, with a box of
old laces that my mother has always guarded. I tried to carry on a
process of identification, between models and small brides,
between me and their mothers. I wanted to transfer the idea of a
violated childhood on the advertising that we see on a daily basis,
that references to a completely different world.