Born in Italy, Clara Giaminardi lives and works in London.
One of the youngest female photographers to be commissioned for Italian Vogue, her photography explores the female body and its expression within fashion.
Her vision of femininity is informed by feminist literature, performance art and contemporary dance, combined with a love for texture and the unique beauty of imperfection.
Clara’s project is mainly focused on film tears, on the emotional elements of the public-film relationship.
The concept originally came from the scene of Godard’s “Vivre Sa Vie” in which Anna Karina is moved to tears by Dreyer’s Joan of Arc, as she views it in a dark cinema.
Within this project we see the face of a woman covered with tears, with an afflicted expression all this with the intent of spurring people not to hide their strong emotions and not to regard them as a taboo. This “obligation” to be ashamed of our emotions is mainly due to the distorted depiction that media and art give to female emotion.
We asked Clara three words that could identify as “Tomorrow” and we replied: Unpredictable, exciting, powerful. Unpredictable just like emotions, which are uncontrollable; exciting as a state of mind; powerful as the tears, which are able to speak without sound.
