Elena Veniani

I'm passionate about human beings. I try to tell the world through my eyes, to capture the many faces of humanity and document the universal expressions of life which also include social injustices, gender inequalities, without losing the focus on courage and smiles, reflecting on what surrounds me. For me, photography is a subjective expression-interpretation of an emotion. The photographer chooses the subject, the point of observation, the cut and the perspective. A "good photograph" is being able to convey the feeling that one has experienced and that sometimes escapes hasty eyes. Our photographs are the sign of who we are, they tell the story of our life, they are an emotion of love, of happiness, of fear, sadness, surprise, joy, hope, disgust and acceptance. A photograph tells a story, time slips away, photographs are our memory, when our memories begin to get lost in the passing of time. There are facts, pieces of history, which exist only because there is a photograph that tells them.