TITLE: Landscapes in black and white

Landscapes in black and white is a long project carried out along 16 years of travelling, from 2006 up today. The photographs were taken with an analog Canon from the 1970s, by using exclusively black and white films.
This project is an excursus of images through places, sometimes remote and inaccessible, that the author has strongly sought during her explorations.
The anthropomorphic element is deliberately excluded from almost every image, the focus is primarily on the solitary force of the beauty of the landscapes.
Landscapes in black and white tell us about that constant pursuit of a place, no matter if near or far away, that we wish to capture and keep live for ever in a photograph.
Light, matter and composition are the elements that characterize Flavia Cortonicchi's photographs in this work.Like a pictorial sketch she uses black and white, with a dry, precise, essential stroke to immortalize the raw beauty of incredible landscapes

AUTHOR: Flavia Cortonicchi (Italy)

Flavia Cortonicchi was born in Rome in 1985. She attended the high school of Art and in 2007 she graduated at the European Institute of Design in Rome. Since 2008 she has been collaborating with the Corsetti Photographic Laboratory. She worked as music scene photographer and she portrayed the works of the Capitoline Picture Gallery for Zètema. From 2009 to 2011 she lived CLOSE TO some families from L'Aquila, telling about life after the earthquake through her images. In 2011 she moved to London, got to know the English photographic scene and attended a "professional practice" with the Magnum photos agency. In 2012 she made a photographic reportage in the Democratic Republic of Congo in collaboration with AMKA onlus. She worked as assistant to the photographer and artist Maïmouna Guerresi. In 2015 the "Lei" project, curated by Niccolò Fano, was presented at the Matèria gallery and at the International Women's House. In recent years she has made a reportage about Tamil women who are involved in the tea harvest in Sri Lanka and she embarked on a photographic and anthropological project on the connection between Shamanism and Buddhism in Nepal.