Born in Verona in 1982. She graduated in Law at Statale University of Milan, and in Venice with a master in Photography and digital imaging.
Her photographic research focuses on “the defining moments”, either through individual stories of life, and through collective stories of people who have been faced directly or indirectly some of the main events of the twentieth century.
Her meditation is about the interlacements between history, memory and the function of photographic representation; an open search, which continues with the help of her teacher, the photographer Ivo Saglietti.
She travelled in Central and South America and in East Europe.
In 2010 she won the INAIL Prize and in 2011 she had a Special Mention at Giovanni Tabò Prize – Roma Fotoleggendo. Her work has been shown in Rome, Milan, Trieste, Palermo, Genova, Turin, Florence, Venice and Verona.
She published on D La Repubblica delle Donne, L’Espresso, Gioia, Vanity Fair, Corriere della Sera, Cosmopolitan.
She lives in Verona.
ANASTASIA (AND A DIFFERENT MEMORY FACTORY)
by Diambra Mariani. Verona, Italy. 2010. Anastasia is 12 years old and lives in Verona. Daughter of an Englishman and a Friulian woman, both street performers, she lives in a quite large apartment that the owner Vincenzo, a physics professor, has … Continue reading
MEMORY TRAIN
by Diambra Mariani. Torino/Auschwitz-Birkenau A/R. February 2011. For seven years the Turin association “Terra del Fuoco” have organized the “Train of Memory”, a one-year cultural journey for high school students. The core of the project is the journey that takes … Continue reading
FLOODED VENETO
by Diambra Mariani. Veneto, Italy. November 2010. On the 2nd of November a furious flood hit Veneto district. The areas in the provinces of Padua, Vicenza and Verona are the most damaged: rural houses, streets, cellars, cattle sheds, greenhouses, hangars, … Continue reading