Photobook project - identity by Arianna Giaggia https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9 Inspiration and development of my work en-us 2021-04-21 16:48:46 UTC 2025-10-21 02:23:45 UTC hello@padlet.com What is IDENTITY? (for me) agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1443521815 In my opinion identity is what defines us as individuals: our values, our beliefs, our interests and the people we interact with. I think we can build our identity by both spending time alone and with others, but particularly, I believe we are able to enrich ourselves more through the interaction with other people. 
Community and collectivity are core factors in the definition of ourselves: experiencing situations of everyday life with other people allows us to share our own values but also to listen to completely different perspective from ours. The latter is crucial because it brings us to challenge our own ideas and beliefs and therefore it offers an opportunity for personal growth. 
On the other hand, sharing values with other people makes us feel supported, empowered and members of something bigger than us as singular individuals.
Nations are based on the column of collective identity, in fact what distinguishes a state from a nation is actually the values that people share, their history, their culture and their language. Collective identities influence our own identity as individuals, the way we think, the way we act and the choices we make in our daily lives.
I personally think I wouldn't be who I am today without the people that have been part of my life and that still are, the people I've met and the people I've interacted with.
]]> 2021-04-21 16:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1443521815 Inspiration - GORDON PARKS (1912-2006) agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1460431232 American photographer, musician, writer and film director. He became prominent in the US documentary and photo journalism from the 1940s till the 1960s. 
He was particularly interested in issues of civil rights, racism and poverty.
He worked for local newspapers to explore and document Chicago's impoverishment. 
He once said: "I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapon against what I hate the most about the Universe: racism, intolerance and poverty" - this comes across in the power of his images. ]]> 2021-04-26 16:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1460431232 Inspiration - The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams - ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1478768677 For more than two decades, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been photographing the lives of Guillermina and Belinda, two cousins living in rural Argentina, as they move through childhood and youth toward womanhood. This volume, originally published in 2010 and reissued now as the first instalment of a trilogy, chronicles the first five years of their collaboration. Sanguinetti’s images portray a childhood that is both familiar and exceptional. The farmlands of western Buenos Aires province are a particular mix of the modern and traditional, where life is lived in consonance with animals and rugged landscapes. Against this backdrop, Guille and Belinda go through the childhood rites of dressing up and make believe, exploring and appropriating the world around them as they go. As they slip between roles, alternately performing for and being caught by Sanguinetti’s camera, the profound bond between the two girls is unmistakable. Approaching the precipice of early adolescence, their games are imbued with the poignant weight of their dreams and desires as the world of play meets that of reality. By depicting the lives of women and girls within the conventionally masculine world of Argentinan gauchos and farmers, Sanguinetti’s book interrogates the frameworks of mythologies of all kinds, honouring lives that are usually unseen. The Adventures of Guille and Belinda is a portrait of rural childhood at once quiet and poetic, in which the fantastic and the mundane are intimately entwined.

Embossed linen hardback with tip-in
28 x 28cm, 120 pages
ISBN 978-1-913620-13-4
May 2021
€60 £55 $70
]]> 2021-04-30 15:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1478768677 SHOOTING - 1st ROUND agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517627005 I'll be exploring the theme of identity in relationship to others:  how my identity is impacted and can develop through the interaction with other people (especially my family). I've started taking some pictures with my mom and my dad, trying to capture images as natural as possible (not staged). While shooting and while looking at the pictures taken afterwards I realised I really like photos taken when the subjects are moving, they give me a feeling of life, an authentic insight into who we are, they make me feel "in the picture" and they make me experience real emotions.
My goal is to take really natural and spontaneous pictures.
For the layout I think I'm going to realise something simple, but the dimensions of the pictures will vary in relation to the importance I want to give them and the message I want to convey to the viewers.
I'm still not sure about the title, but it will definitely be something related to love/family/insight into my life.

I will leave here the google drive link to see the pictures I have taken so far.]]> 2021-05-12 14:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517627005 SHOOTING - Inspiration agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517736447 LAUREN FORSTER
God Has No Favourites 
The Colonel 
Breast Cancer]]> 2021-05-12 14:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517736447 SHOOTING - Inspiration agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517760816 SIAN DAVEY
Looking For Alice]]> 2021-05-12 14:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517760816 SHOOTING - Inspiration agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517797147 SIAN DAVEY
Together ]]> 2021-05-12 14:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1517797147 SHOOTING - 2nd ROUND agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1540431626 My dad has been taking some pictures of me and my mom in our every-day moments, such as putting some make-up on and choosing what to wear.
The thing I like the most about this photobook is that it is not only going to represent me and my family but it's also going to be made by me and family, as far as I'm not the only one taking the pictures. It's going to be the essence of me and my family both in its content and in its realisation.

I will leave here the google drive link to see some more pictures I have taken.]]> 2021-05-19 16:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1540431626 PHOTOSHOP - My approach agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1540456853 My personal approach to Photoshop for this project would be not to overuse it because the idea I would like to convey to the viewers it's an insight into the everyday life of me and my family, so I would really like to make it as natural as possible.
So far, I have just been adjusting contrast, saturation, exposure and size of the pictures I have taken.]]> 2021-05-19 16:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1540456853 HEART & SOUL - Title agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1581456988 I chose this title because I think my identity is deeply bonded to my heart and my soul: it depends on them, it is built upon them and grows and changes because of them; and also because heart and soul is what is represented in the photobook: my family.]]> 2021-06-03 03:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1581456988 FONT and COVER/BACK COLOUR agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1581464143 Initially, I chose a quite childish font as well as a bright and playful red as cover/back colour, but the professor helped me realise that those wouldn't have fit with the idea and content of my project. So, I changed the bright red in a darker red and the font in a more minimal one: the final result was really elegant and it was perfectly aligned with the theme of my project. ]]> 2021-06-03 03:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1581464143 BLANK PAGES agiaggia0120201_2 https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1582204020 I left many blank pages in my book because I wanted to create pauses in order leave the viewers time to actually think about the moments represented in the pictures and reflect on them, I didn't wanted them to be overwhelmed by content. ]]> 2021-06-03 11:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/agiaggia0120201_2/hns5p201y8loyos9/wish/1582204020