Viví. Women with a present life.

Viviana was my wife. She died due to breast cancer when she was 35 years old. She lived her final years with intensity, connected to the people she loved and to the present, leaving us a wonderful example of tenacity, courage and love. The series of portraits "Viví. Women with a present life." is a homage to her, her struggle, and to all those women who put up a fight, and who continue to do so, against this illness. At the same time it wishes to generate a thinking space and an awareness that for the time being, the most effective weapon to fight breast cancer is early diagnosis. The portraits are strong and provocative. These women, looking into our eyes, tell us who they are, and how they live today, they tell us of their fears and their phantoms. But at the same time they courageously exhibit their breasts, in some cases mutilated, in a clear attempt of acceptance of their new reality, helping us to discover and value the existence of a different beauty, a more authentic one, more profound.