Alice Ciocci is an Italian photographer whose digital and analog work focuses on a wide range of styles, techniques, and perspectives.
Ciocci’s portfolio comprises liminal and motion street photography, dynamic documentary photography, and portraiture, among others. “I selected three photographs from different projects, because together they reflect my photographic identity,” she explains. In this sense, the same conceptual overlap can be easily traced within Ciocci’s work itself, where a stringent, even direct approach seems to combine perfectly with multiple-exposure shots that enhance an atmospheric, old-school view of life.
Whether the artist catalogues the range of human emotions or the nostalgic view of a sunset in the urban skyline, there is a pregnant sense of no beginning, no end, as if we are dropped in the middle of the scene.
Ciocci’s portfolio seems fragmented, with a certain dose of incidentality. The blend of analog and digital techniques, as well as a variety of subjects and objects, creates a sense of distracted, yet carefully distributed, attention. What links her street photography is the air of the loneliness of the individual in the vastness of the city, a certain nostalgia that fills the frame beyond the photographed scene.
“There is often a cinematic atmosphere in my images, not as a fixed intention, but as a natural tendency in the way I observe and frame reality,” says Ciocci. She indeed displays a particular kind of visual sensitivity. The photos tell the story of life itself, sometimes exciting and colorful, but more often than not common and mundane. It is this part of life that needs the most of our attention and time, and it is exactly this part that Ciocci chooses to frame with her camera.
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