Ludovica Anzaldi
Camera roll with Ludovica Anzaldi: a photographer, a mother, but most importantly – a woman.
Ludovica is a Roman native visual artist who studied in Paris, and later in life came back to live in her hometown. She’s a world navigated photographer who mainly points her camera at women, immersing herself in their lives, trying to capture each and every unique nuance through the use of her analog lens. She’s a proud feminist who truly believes in the power of storytelling – ‘Human Range’ is one of her ongoing, and probably most important projects yet. An intimate introspective in the journey of self discovery of women from different social rank, race, occupation…Women, captured in their heroic everyday normality, out of the spotlight of society’s judgmental boundaries, finally free to express themselves.
“I generally start conversations and work with people that need a voice for their stories. Through photography, I am able to create my own personal archive of ‘humanity’ – Listening to other people’s stories is what helps humanity the most, and it’s what uplifts me personally as well.”
Ludovica’s photography meets in the grey area between photojournalism and art photography, her point of view shocks the viewer with its bold rawness, mixing the right dose of social and political context.
‘My style is a mix of both photojournalism and art photography – following people and situations happening around me, I started pursuing the lost thread of unspoken voices. Soon enough this became my trademark.”
We had Ludovica under our radar because we share and collaborate with friends in common. Our first encounter with her work was thanks to Livia Lazzari two years ago. She shot the pictures we used in the BEA muse page dedicated to Livia – founder & owner of Voodoo Jewels. Finally, over the last month we were able to work together on our own projects: first for Ilaria & Margot’s pictures for our BEA mum story, and then with the self-portrait series she did for this article, which was the most natural next collaboration.
