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ILARIA MIANI italy
Photo © ILARIA MIANI
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Q'Eros: the last Incas
I don't remember the first time I hold a camera, but I do certainly remember the main two moments I had the experience of the magic of photography: the first time it was in my brother's dark room, and I was really a child, and then later, as a teenager, when my father took me to a National Geographic photo exhibition in Rome. After that, I've got no choice, photography has definitely became my world.
From that moment I've got the opportunity to live different experience, in years I've test myself, trying to find my personal feeling in photography.
Picture by picture I have acquired the awareness of how an image can be important because has the power to provide documentary evidence of our life, an instrument to inspect the humankind. Much more powerful because each frame is a humankind squared: in each image there is not just what I see, but how I see it with all my emotions, background, feeling, happiness, sadness, culture, knowledge, experiences, lack of experiences. This is why photography is unique.
And It is with this belief that I took photos.
In these latest years, I focused myself to document places where there are ethnics that still maintain their old habits, but that are in very danger to lost them, because of the upcoming globalization.
With my photos I hope to give to those people a voice.
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entry description
Q’ero people lives in remote villages located at an altitude of up to 4.500/5.000 mt above the sea level, and they are known as the last living direct descendants of the Incas. Their main source of sustenance consists of potatoes, and raise alpaca, but due to the climate changes that has altered the cycle of the seasons, surviving has become harder than ever since crops are subject to violent storms just as to great drought.about the photographer
I am Ilaria Miani, and I am an amateur photographer.I don't remember the first time I hold a camera, but I do certainly remember the main two moments I had the experience of the magic of photography: the first time it was in my brother's dark room, and I was really a child, and then later, as a teenager, when my father took me to a National Geographic photo exhibition in Rome. After that, I've got no choice, photography has definitely became my world.
From that moment I've got the opportunity to live different experience, in years I've test myself, trying to find my personal feeling in photography.
Picture by picture I have acquired the awareness of how an image can be important because has the power to provide documentary evidence of our life, an instrument to inspect the humankind. Much more powerful because each frame is a humankind squared: in each image there is not just what I see, but how I see it with all my emotions, background, feeling, happiness, sadness, culture, knowledge, experiences, lack of experiences. This is why photography is unique.
And It is with this belief that I took photos.
In these latest years, I focused myself to document places where there are ethnics that still maintain their old habits, but that are in very danger to lost them, because of the upcoming globalization.
With my photos I hope to give to those people a voice.
back to gallery
