Maela Gaggero, class of 1984.
Born and lived in Voltri (Genoa), adopted by Turin for more than ten years.
Photography has always been part of my life. The first memory I have is related to my dad, his Olympia Camera, his photographs hanging in the house and the attic where he had set up his darkroom. My first photographs are born on vacation with millions of films taken and printed when I return home. For years I kept on immortalizing my travels but without a precise purpose, I felt that my photos were missing something. A few years ago, I accidentally enrolled in a course of narrative photography where I discovered the incredible power of serial photography. At that moment I felt that this was my way: to tell myself through photography through my way of seeing and perceiving the world.
