Silvia Peronetti_1970

I begin photographing in 1987 with my father's NIKKORMAT.
Since then, I've never stopped, alternating between prolific periods and long breaks.
It's the summer of my first year in Classical High School, and I embark on a long journey by sea starting from Liguria and touching all the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea up to Ventotene. And back.
It's in this wandering dimension, filled with the richness of all senses, that I start using the camera. Every shot is a long and exhausting search for a frame that satisfies me. And most of the time, I give up, much to the disappointment of those accompanying me.
At the end of a very long vacation, I've only taken 2 rolls of color slides. It's a foundational process of synthesis in which I still recognize myself today.

In 1989, I attended Professor Claudio Marra's Photography Course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. The following year, I enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture, and in 1993, I attended Professor Piero Pozzi's course at the Polytechnic University of Milan. In 1996, after graduating, I took an extracurricular course in "Photography and Representation of the Territory."
Subsequently, I continued my journey "solo."
Since 1997, I've been practicing as a freelance architect.
Since 2018, I've been participating in various workshops and portfolio readings, including those with Joackim Eskildsen and Hannes Wanderer, Tim Carpenter, Jason Furford, and Mark Steinmetz.

My photographic work moves on two levels.
One is dreamlike and intimate, while the other is documentary.
The first arises from a more free and spontaneous creative process.
The second is born out of my curiosity and professional training, out of the passion for observing social and territorial changes with great attention.