LIFE BEHIND CURTAINS
2022
ICP e Camera Torino Masterclass
ICP Intensive Course in Visual Storytelling - Final Project
I am very grateful to all the teachers and people who encouraged me in the realisation of this project, it was a very formative experience that encouraged me to pay attention to details.
Special thanks to Marco and Flavio who shared their sweetness and passion for theatre with me.
Annibale Ruccello at the young age of 24 wrote his first independent work. The two transvestite protagonists, Anna and Jennifer, live in loneliness and fear, waiting for the phone call that will turn their lives around. For Jennifer it is Franco, a man who has promised to marry her.
There is something ancestral in the air, ancient yet modern thoughts that resonate within us every day, whether on a stage or in the alleys of the city. Jennifer is the devil and holy water, Anna is her mirror. They are eternal contradiction and paradigm of Neapolitan ambiguity.
"Life Behind Curtains" is the project I realised during the ICP (International Center of Photography - NY) Masterclass in collaboration with Camera Torin (Centro Italiano per la Fotografia).
I tried to document the process of preparing for the rehearsal of a play, trying to capture all the nuances of what it means for an actor to step into the shoes of the character they have to play and how they eventually become one person. The project is about transformation and a sense of marginalisation, but also about love and despair and the search for meaning in human existence.
