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BARBARA GUSSONI

PHOTOGRAPHY

I was born in Italy and I live in Marseille, France since 2010.

I am a writer and a photographic artist.

At the end of the nineties I worked as the assistant of the photographer Rinaldo Capra and for the A2 agency in Brescia, Italy. I attended the basic photography course at The Ken Damy Museum.

At that time, I contributed to the 'Alzheimer, conoscere chi non ricorda' project, which was the first multimedia exposition on the Alzheimer disease in Italy.

Since 2017 I take pictures with a digital camera and in July 2019 I published my first portfolio 'The places of meetings' on the online revue 'The eye of Photography'.

I exhibited my works in Parma, Barcelona, Budapest and Marseille.

Trained in art-therapy, I wrote and realized a photographic project with children who experience multiple disabilities and their families in a specialized centre in Marseille with the aim of raising awareness of polyhandicap.

In 2024 I collaborated with the CNRS and the ‘Fabrique des écritures’ in Marseille on a sociological research on foreign-documented hospital staff in the South of France.

Since 2018, I cooperate with the theatre company 'Gruppo Elettrogeno' in Bologna, Italy.

Photography has always been a surprise to me: I wait until the image reveals itself to my eye without imagining neither creating it before.
I work on my availability to capture the unexpected, the instant when the light enters silently through the window and touches a surface in an unfamiliar way, when the colour of a door, at a particular time of the day escapes from the banality of what is around, when forms, lines and colours draw an harmonic composition beyond human noise.
I do accept to know nothing about the world to let the invisible appear, suddenly arise.
I like taking pictures of the silence of certain places, of ordinary people and their extraordinary lives.
It is only recently, during the Covid-19 crisis, that I began to imagine stories, to create sets with things I had at hand and to invent some uncertain plots that I fixed through the home light on a precarious support of time and space.

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