Elisa Villa, born and bred in Milan, citizen of the world. Literary translator, passionate photographer. I love books, travelling and playing basketball, going to the theatre and to the mountains. I love dogs, cats and singing birds. I love to share my time with friends and cook for them. I love sunny days and rainy days. Influenced by Giuliana Traverso, Nick Giordano and Francesco Cito, my favourite subjects are people, portrayed either in snapshots or in broader reportages, and I consider every photographic project a way to go deeper into a topic I am interested in. In 2015 I joined the Circolo Fotografico Milanese and later on the group PhotoMilano. Shortlisted for Trieste Photo Days in 2022, in 2023 one of my pictures is chosen for the last volume of Mythology and in 2024 I am a finalist in the Concorso Internazionale Città di Latina. Recently, I also started looking for a way to create purely aesthetic 'paintings' with my camera and I invented a technique that allows me to create what I call "Flowing still life". Part of this project was presented in a solo exhibition at La Corte degli Artisti in Milan, in 2023; shortlisted for LensCulture Art Photography Awards and Siena Creative Photo Awards and selected by Fondazione Malerba. With a spin-off of it, "The Greengrocery Project", I won the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2023 MPB Award for Innovation and, in January 2024, the Special Selection of FPA Professional Food Photography Awards 2023 in Japan.
