My name is Petra Dessanti and I am a 24-year-old girl living in one of the small villages in the hills around Florence, Italy. I attended the Liceo Artistico di Portaromana in Florence, graduating with a focus on fashion and costume design. I took all the courses in the Set Design program at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, though I did not complete the program, and recently I have been studying programming at the innovative school called 42. For the past six months, I have been working as a set assistant at the photography studio of the well-known e-commerce company LuisaViaRoma.
When I was a child, my mother always bought me disposable cameras for school trips, during which I began to enjoy documenting the beautiful moments and things I found interesting. Meanwhile, a relative gave me a digital camera, and that’s how I started experimenting and playing with it. That camera no longer works, but for my eighteenth Christmas, I received my first DSLR, with which I still enjoy experimenting and taking photos, even if still at an amateur level.
Being more versatile and always ready to use, my habit of documenting the surrounding reality has shifted towards my phone. I also enjoy documenting through videos, and so I often find myself searching for representative images from the video by taking screenshots of the frames I find most interesting.
