FRANCESCA TODDE

Italy

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A Sensitive Education

Biographie

Francesca Todde is a photographer and editor living in Milan and working between Italy and France. Her research focuses on the invisible elements of relationships, sometimes crossing stories of sharing with animals. Her work is distributed by Contrasto.
His first book A Sensitive Education, a research on the possibilities of empathy between different species, was published in January 2020. It was awarded the Pon-chielli Prize for the best photographic book 2020/21 and received the special mention at the Marco Bastianelli Prize for the best Italian photographic book 2020.
Together with the artist Luca Reffo, she is co-founder of the publishing house Départ Pour l'Image, which deals with experimental publications on the border between photography and contemporary art.

Publications: The British Journal of Photography, 6Mois, Le Monde, M le Magazine du Monde, DLui di Repubblica, Fisheye, Zadig, Granta, Yet magazine, Phases Magazine, Domus.
Expositions: Cortona on the Move (IT), Circulation(s) (FR), PVF Festival of Political Pho-tography, Helsinki (FI), 10x10 Photofestival (IT), SiFest (IT), Officine Fotografiche Milano (IT), BYOPaper ! Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie (FR), Looking On MAR, Raven-na (IT), Reflexions, CAMERA, Torino (IT), Festival In_Cadaques (ES), Festival Les Nuits de Pierrevert (FR).

Présentation

“A Sensitive Education“, follows the work of Tristan Plot, a trainer of birds, to explore the possibility of an empathy between different natural species. The series, far from being a nature documentary, is turned towards the emotional sphere and the sensibility of birds and humans.
The photographic research is developed in tune with the delicateness of this dialogue without words.