Songül | 2014-2017

A long-distance reportage about a 22-year-old Turkish teacher sent to work by the Erdoğan government on the Syrian border, in a village where girls are not allowed to attend school. The project explores her attempt to undermine what is established and sanctioned by those in power.

The words are drawn from emails that Songül wrote to me over the course of three years; the photographs are taken from miniature models created by me and theatre set designer Alberto Nonnato.

In 2017, the project became the first photographic book published by La Grande Illusion.

 

 

Here are some pieces of the hand-made miniatures.

 

 

Here is the project scale model exhibited at the Mirabilia |The sign of contemporaneity in the works of artists under 35 | exhibition at the Diocesan Museum, Padua in 2017.

 

 

Here is the layout for the exhibition Eyes on Tomorrow, young Italian photography in the world, organized by the Farnesina and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, curated by Ilaria Campioli and Daniele de Luigi, which took place in Maputo, Mozambique, in 2022.

Here is a page from the catalogue of the Altre Visioni exhibition at Palazzo Moroni, Padua, which took place as part of the Photo Open Up International Photography Festival, curated by Carlo Sala in 2019.

Press

 

 

 

 

Here is Loredana De Pace’s article Rerpotage a distanza on FOTO Cult, Anno XV, Numero 157 | Dicembre 2018 – Gennaio 2018, pp.32-33.