Instagram takeover: Sara Palmieri

Sara Palmieri, contributor to the Photoworks Annual, Issue 22, takes over our Instagram account for a week in February 2016.

To follow be sure to visit instagram.com/photoworks_uk

Sara Palmieri, born in Rome, Italy. She approached photography at the ENSAPVL in Paris in 2003. She graduated in Architecture in Rome, La Sapienza, focusing on set design.

This is my last post, Sara Palmieri @sarapalmieri1 for @photoworks_uk Instagram take over. I leave with another note from my work in progress 'memory is not a photography'. I had a great time, thank you @photoworks_uk! #sarapalmieri #photoworks_uk #pwannual #instagramtakeover #womeninphotography #hair #memoryisnotaphotography

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Feb 7, 2016 at 2:01pm PST

Since 2009 she attended several masterclasses and workshops, including Leonie Hampton, Vanessa Winship, Lina Pallotta, Anders Petersen, 3/3, Camera 21.

With the collective RVP, founded in 2013, she has commercial commissions.

Since 2009 her photographs has been exhibited on several occasions and published online and on paper.

Sun is gone, @sarapalmieri1 for @photoworks_uk. I'm sharing with you some of my visual world and secrets. Pic 2 from my collection of old family albums. #sarapalmieri #photoworks_uk #pwannual #instagramtakeover #womeninphotography #oldalbumfound #memory

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Feb 6, 2016 at 9:33am PST

In 2013 she received an honorable mention at Fotoleggendo Festival for her work M. The same year M was selected for the Obbiettivo Donna Festival and recently has been shown in the collective exhibition Domina 23 at Palazzo Ziino, Palermo and at the S.Salvatore in Lauro Museums, Rome. M is featured in the Photoworks Annual, Issue 22, out from Nov. 2015.

hello @sarapalmieri1 posting for @photoworks_uk Instagram this week. I'm sharing pictures from my work 'la plume plongea la tete'. Hair for me is a metaphor of identity and human vulnerability; it is the part of our body that survives for longer time, but apparently so fragile. They represent the thin connection between the human search of the absolute invisible to the eyes, and the reality as we see it. #sarapalmieri #hair #photoworks_uk #pwannual #instagramtakeover #womeninphotography #photobook #plume #Mallarmé

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Feb 3, 2016 at 3:56am PST

Recently Between two lungs has been published on Witty Magazine#4 issue Wittykiwy, and has been part of the ‘Hidden/Intimate’ Slideshow at the Obscura Festival 2015.

In February 2015 she was selected for the first one-year ISSP International Masterclass, that includes three Residencies: March 2015 Kuldiga Latvia, September 2015 Braga Portugal, March 2016 Kuldiga Latvia.

Hi day 4 Sara Palmieri @sarapalmieri1 posting for @photoworks_uk . I've been obsessed with this portrait my whole life. This woman has never left her small village until her death, at the age of 98. But her hair travelled across the world, from Italy to China, and back. She won a competition for the most beautiful tresses in the world: the cut hair went to Peking and came back with the money she won. She was my grandmother. When she died, I found a box with her hair and I knew this story. Through the journey of her hair, I retraced mine. M. is featured on the Annual of @photoworks_uk. #sarapalmieri #hair #photoworks_uk #pwannual #instagramtakeover #womeninphotography #photobook

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Feb 4, 2016 at 7:08am PST

She is author of the art-books: M. (First english edition, self published, 2015; book selected for the Nopx International Artist’s book contest & exhibition), ‘La plume plongea la tete’ (First edition, self published, handmade, 2015; book selected for the shortlist of the 50 books in the Encontros da Imagem PhotoFestival Call for Books and for the shortlist of the 20 books in The Book’s Space exhibition at Fotografia Festival 2015 in Rome).

@sarapalmieri1 for @photoworks_uk Instagram. Third pic from my work 'la plume plongea la tete'. #Mallarmé #sarapalmieri #hair #photoworks_uk #pwannual #instagramtakeover #womeninphotography #photobook #plume

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Feb 2, 2016 at 8:31am PST

She lives and works in Rome as an architect and photographer.

To follow be sure to visit instagram.com/photoworks_uk

For more of Sara’s work click here.