Artist Bio
Daniela Rossi is an Italian photographer and filmmaker based in Brussels.
She has been working with analog photography since 2011. She shoots with a fully manual Minolta SRT 100x (50mm lens), using Ilford HP5 black-and-white film. Her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in Belgium and Italy.
In 2025 she published the photo book “En Pièces”.
In parallel with her photographic work, she wrote and directed a short film, Welcome to Cley, produced by Manomètre Films, selected by « Le Court en dit Long » Film Festival (Paris 2025), and Fayetteville Film Festival (USA 2025).,She also makes short horror videos shot with Super 8 camera. “Analog photography allows me to depict the world as I perceive it: vulnerable and poetic, but also raw and elusive. Black and white is an essential part of this pursuit, adding a timeless, suspended quality to each frame. In my approach, I aim to develop a kind of magical realism, inspired by the work of Francesca Woodman, Roger Ballen, Imogen Cunningham, and Sally Mann. The idea of magic is deeply rooted in my perception of the world, where nothing is fixed, and the boundary between the rational and the irrational is never clearly defined. Places, objects, and bodies are all vulnerable, shaped by memories, emotions, and encounters. Each image is therefore the result of a process of introspection and development”.
Statement
SAN MICHELE DI PAGANA
The selection I am presenting consists of ten photographs taken in San Michele di Pagana, on the Gulf of Tigullio (Liguria, on Italy’s northwestern Mediterranean coast), between 2019 and 2024, all during the winter months. At this time of year, the tourists have gone, allowing the landscape to reveal its true nature: raw, narrow, stony. The trees stand like ancient cathedrals, the sea is often restless, human presence seem suspended. Silence is broken only by the endless rhythm of the waves. Through these photographs, I intend to convey that sense of timelessness but also of the fragility of human presence.
