PHOTO-BODIES (Doing Time; A Love Story)

‘Doing Time; A love story’ is a 70 image piece. This is the story of Signorina F, how her body preceded/predicted the future, and how this “body of work” about her came to occupy a physical volume of memories. I started photographing Signorina F in 2013, and even if at any given moment life never seems simple, it was, looking back, a carefree time for her, when she was single and her tattoos of skulls and jail keys were just art. The shooting from that first afternoon, retrospectively was a predecessor, a prediction, a Tarot card kind of event. February 2014, the newspaper headlines read, “Taxi driver killed over an argument about pedestrian rights”. In 2016, Signorina F’s new partner and father of her two children was sentenced to prison for 10 years for involuntary manslaughter. She was alone now with a two year old and a newborn. With this multitude of images, I wanted to fill the corners of memory, occupy space, and reconstruct something for her and her family. A photograph is a piece of paper that fills in, takes up room inside of us, reconstitutes. We need a volume to construct wholeness, to feel completeness, and the more cumbersome the albums, the better.