Giovanna del Sarto is a London-based Italian photographer specialising in documentary photography.
‘She typically looks at the margins of societies and the aftermath of catastrophes, tracing experiences of precarious living to tackle her own ignorance and import stories, faces and voices seldom represented.
Her practice is strongly embodied and situated: each project is a direct response to specific situations; there is a mutual import of meaning between the situations addressed and what she chooses to capture on site(s). The outcome is ultimately the creation of an interruption, a space to stop and think, to see things differently, watch how spaces are inhabited and the diverse ways in which everyday life unfolds within specific socio-cultural and political economies.’
Del Sarto is currently undertaking her long-term project, A Polaroid For A Refugee (ApfaR),which depicts points of transition in the lives of individual refugees. ApfaR has been exhibited in UK, Berlin, France, Switzerland (where it won the Lugano Photo Festival Women open call), Georgia, and Italy, and published in worldwide media. Since completing an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, in 2008, she has been working as a freelance documentary photography and digital postproduction retoucher.
Publications and commissions include National Geographic, L’Espresso, La Repubblica, Il Sole24Ore, Usbek & Rica, The Guardian, Amnesty International, Traces London, Swiss Federal Commission on Immigration (FCM), NHS, Huffington Post, The Post Internationale (Inside Foreign Affairs), Wonderland Magazine, and Italian VICE-ID magazine amongst others.
