Staying closed at home for months due to repeated lockdowns and being able to go out, as a photojournalist, to photograph my completely deserted city (Venice) made me think a lot. The sense of loss (of the people around, of my friends and fellow citizens, the shops closed permanently), the absence of life, I perceived it similar to the sense of pain and absence of all my relatives and relatives who died in recent years . A deep sense of loneliness that I tried to fill by making COLLAGES starting from the photographs of Venice empty due to the covid combined with old family photos .
Barbara Zanon (b. 1979, Venice) is an Italian photojournalist and portrait photographer whose work explores intimacy, identity, and the complexity of human experience. Working professionally since 2004, she combines a documentary approach with a deeply personal visual language. Since 2009, she has been a contributor to Getty Images. Her work has been widely published internationally, including in The New York Times, TIME, The Guardian, El País, Financial Times, Vogue, CNN, and Der Spiegel, among others.
