Bellissima

''Bellissima'' follows the story of Rebecca, whom the photographer met on the stages of a popular italian beauty pageant.’’I was looking for a young girl who was not necessarily a professional model, but who pursued the dream of beauty’’. The project reflects on the photographic medium as a factory of dreams. By purposefully shifting perspectives on the photographic set and the interactions between subject, and through Rebecca’s dynamic symbiosis with the photographer, the work raises questions about how how images influence the dreams and aspirations of the younger generations of girls. The work aims to critique the photographic apparatus as a stage for performing beauty and to challenge the idea of it as a cult achieved through the attention of the camera. Would beauty still have meaning if no one could look at us?