The essay brings a journey through everyday life, through intimacy with things, inviting the contemplation of the extraordinary present in the trivial, using the imagination as a vehicle for a journey through universes created when one photograph joins another, and another, and another. Structured in polyptychs, always four in number, in an allusion to the lyric of sonnet stanzas, where the narrative and its rhythm take place within a poetic metric form. The polyptychs were created in 2023 from analogue photographs executed on films in 135 and 120 formats taken over the last three years.
Daniela Balestrin is a multidisciplinary artist. In her work, she seeks to engage with the web of events that intertwine her daily life, creating narratives that involve the movements of life and imagination, crossing memory and fiction, image and word. Her academic background is in Law [2007] and she worked in the field for 15 years while independently exploring photography. Since 2020, she has embraced photography as her professional pursuit, employing analog and historical techniques in image construction.
Awards 2024
Shortlist int the Professional Creative Category, Sony World Photography Awards.
2023
New Photography Award from the Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo/Brazil.
Finalist named for Discovery of the Year of The Lucie Awards.
Analog/Film Photographer of the Year Non-Professional, IPA - Internacional Photography Awards.
First Place, Analog/Film, Other, Non-Professional, IPA - Internacional Photography Awards.
Gold Winner, Portfolio-Personal, TIFA - Tokyo Internacional Foto Awards.
