Loredana Mantello

“Photography is like a therapy for me, it’s food for my soul. It’s my homeland, my friend, my paradise, my harmony, my peace, my happiness. My thoughts look for a refugee in it. I’m so curious that I can’t wait my black and white photos to be printed, just like I couldn’t wait when I was in the dark room. I examine them, I caress them just like a child’s face, I can feel them under my nails, it’s a wonderful sensation. I observe them from afar, and then watch them closely to catch their essence, their feeling, their spirit: and I find them there. I admire them for some minutes, then put them in a drawer, to watch it again later; and I feel it’s still alive, and I fall in love with it once more.” Loredana Martello is an Italian free lancer photographer who has decided to concentrate on Middle Eastern countries. Her works have been exhibited both in Italy and abroad. To fulfil her wish to catch moments her eyes and mind record, but that are difficult to be painted, or told, she uses her photo camera has her mean of expression. All her images express how she felt, her perceptions, her emotions, her world. Loredana is an explorer of souls and of Middle Eastern people. In her collection “Ballet in Monochrome”, she has tried to fix the appeal and elegance of human body, sensuality of veiled women’s black eyes and delicate details of henna draws painted on their skin, that all evoke something mysterious. Loredana’s exploration goes on the collection “Water, wind, waves”, where she explores the dramatic visual and physical interaction among cloth, wind and water and whatever surrounds them. “Look in depth and you’ll find hidden answers, but here they are…for those who know how to see them.”

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