Giorgia Bellotti is an Italian photographer based in Bologna. She had always been exposed to the arts from a young age, delving into the disciplines of drawing and painting. Photography came to her much later with her fully throwing herself into the artistic avenues that the medium offered to focus on documenting herself and her inner universe. Giorgia uses the self-portrait to see herself, heal herself, seek herself, without ever revealing her face.
Enveloped in an atmosphere of silence and melancholy, the artist’s portraits always seem suspended in time. Her presence often bleeds into her choice of backdrop, be it out in nature or against a nondescript corner in her own home. But it’s actually her fascination with the unremarkable that makes her photography so intriguing, there’s an irresistible appeal in her desire to blend, disappear and hide.
“The environment that surrounds me”, she explains “becomes the focal element to describe my emotional sphere through an intimate and profound journey that starts from the unconscious to get where everything has started, or ended. The point that made me who I am. A therapy, a cure.”
“The memory of my first encounters with photography takes me far back in time”, she tells. “When we were children, my sister and I used to celebrate our birthdays at my grandmother’s house, and at the end of lunch, we always took a photo with a Polaroid. Magical was the moment when the image was revealed on the black film. I still keep it, and I still keep all those photographs, they are a beautiful memory.”
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