Federica Cocciro was born in 1989 and raised in Milan. She has degrees in Italian literature and Publishing, at University of Milan. As a self-taught and freelance photographer, she creates personal projects and authorial reports about social issues, publishing on national newspapers and international magazines.
About Wild strawberries – words by Federica Cocciro:
What connects a human being to a place? How much can a place influence who I am? Is it possible to bring to life an ended time? I’m looking today for what remains. I collect metonymies of an unrepeatable past. I’m trying to pin down the people who make this time and place perfect, wild strawberries growing in a terrible and beautiful land. When I think of this personal and long-term project, I always remind a Wordsworth’s sonnet:
“…Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind…”
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