TITLE: SOUTHERN FAMILY

It is a look at a family from Southern Italy who emigrated to the North who in the summer returns to their home in their hometown in Puglia. In contrast to the hysteria of urban-centric society here on their terrace, the simple joys of life, rooted in long-held traditions, are celebrated at a slow pace, transforming into poetic lightness in daily rituals. This place, this small terrace becomes a precious reflection of life, of the ethics of sacrifice, of time lived day after day with simplicity and dignity. The genuineness of a southern family leads us to reflect on the indissoluble bond with one's place of birth, the awareness that despite the chaotic vortex of the present, one can return to the slowness of life.

Gioia del Colle, Bari, Italy

AUTHOR: anna marzia soria (Italy)

Anna Marzia Soria, alias --- Biba --- freelance photographer based in Bari, always interested in photography and art. He loves a type of minimal photography in which the approach to the representation of reality takes on a more anthropological and artistic slant, sometimes documentary and in which the interaction between the natural world and the human world, even in a more conceptual sense, are at the center of his photographic story in an almost dreamlike suspension dimension. Photography is for her a long-term dialogue with the soul. Reflections in the form of an image. In his shots he seems to forget the perception of time. Everything happens in a simple and slow way, with the rhythms of natural light.

Winner in 2008 of the international photo contest "Flowers by you" by Kenzo and then in 2015 of the photo contest "Contours Outlines" and of a workshop with the master of photography Uliano Lucas: identity of the metropolitan landscape, organized by the Metropolitan City of Bari. in 2015 at the workshop of the photojournalist Marcello Carrozzo, in portfolio reviews with Enzo Carli, photographer, journalist and university professor of Culture and Sociology of Photography at the Faculty of Architecture and Design in Camerino and with Manoocher Deghati, an Iranian-French photojournalist. In 2016 he participated in a workshop "the self portrait-experience" with the famous Catalan photographer Cristina Nunez.

She is present with a personal portfolio on PhotoVogue, the photographic platform of Vogue.it curated by Photo Editors of Vogue Italia and is represented by the famous and prestigious New York agency Art + Commerce. In 2020 she participates in the #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis opencall which sees the famous New York photographer David Campany protagonist among the curators, with the selection of one of his photographs, among over sixty thousand from all over the world, exhibited in an exhibition permanent at the ICP in New York with the other thousand selected shots. In 2021 she was selected by the CIFA (Italian Author Photographic Center) of Bibbiena (AR) for the exhibition "Quarantine Chronicles". In August 2021 she is among the finalists of the open call #callsifestoff2021 of the SifestOff - Photographic festival of Savignano sul Rubicone (FC), in October 2021 she is among the finalists of the exhibition "Fotografi per Ferlinghetti" at the International Center of Photography in Palermo,in December 2021 she was selected among the finalists of the “Oltre l'Immagine 2021” photo contest with the theme “Italian Street Photo Awards. In 2022 finalist at Siena International
Photo Awards with a photographer in the “journeys and adventures” section and finalist at the Fine Art Photography Awards in the photojournalism section with the series “Hic et Nunc”. In 2022 finalist in the Fine Art

She has published on Emc-Mag, C41magazine, Italyphotoaward, lensculture, Phest, Origine Magazine, Contrasto, Sifestoff, Yogurt Magazine, The Smartview, DocuMagazine, Rewriters, Seezeenphoto, Street Photography in the World, Storytelling and Street Photography, Edicola del Sud is also present on Leica Fotografie International in the official gallery with some photographs and the “Leica master