Hello!
I’m Piera Fatibene, an italian photographer living between Italy and Czech Republic.
Graduated in Archeology and Arts at the University of Parma, since childhood I was fascinated and conquered by the photography, the magic of chemical development in the darkroom and by the power of visual communication, to which my father, Art teacher and photographer himself, started me at an early age.
At the age of nine, therefore, I grab my first camera, an analogue compact camera, to photograph the archaeological site of Herdonia (FG): it’s the beginning of two great loves, photography and archaeology.
My artistic interests have led me over the years to master the cultural background in which photography was born and spread, passing with full marks at the college the exam History of Photography, producing a thesis on analogic photo retouching. The study of ancient and modern techniques of image reproduction led me to develop a master’s thesis that analyzes and study in deep the applications and historical evolutions of photographic techniques in the archaeological field.
After academic studies, I followed a course in Photography for Art in Florence, examining the methods of photographic reproduction of artworks for the purposes of restoration, cataloguing and publication of the artistic heritage.
My passion for archeology and photography pushed me to obtain three underwater patents, among these, the one in underwater archeology and allowed me to investigate the field of underwater photography and its use in the archeological and scientific fields.
Winner of the photo contest “FAI na foto” sponsored by FAI fund – Fondo Ambiente Italiano – in the Urban Section with the photo “End of a doll“, event published in the online newspaper “Giornale di Puglia” of 26/03/2013 (the complete list of winners for each section HERE).
“The end of a doll”
I continue to this day my experimentation in the artistic and photographic field, plumbing themes and techniques such as hybrid photography, the restoration of ancient photography and the craft techniques of image replication, such as serigraphy, cyanotype, tintype, albumin print.
I love doing portraiture, especially that of newborns and children.
In 2023 I’ve created a personal exhibition of restoration and digital coloring of ancient photographs, with great public success, a work started from photographical glass support with dry gelatin from the end of the 19th century.
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