I was not aware of the energy a group of female friends could generate, the spontaneousness of nudity, the joy of sharing our own beauty. It felt like an epiphany.
Artist: Zoe Natale Mannella
Project: Taxídi
Book published by Witty Books
https://www.zoenatalemannella.com/
“Taxídi” is greek for trip and my personal journey through women’s body and expression. It was born in 2018, I was on holidays with some friends in Puglia, in the south of Italy.
I was not aware of the energy a group of female friends could generate, the spontaneousness of nudity, the joy of sharing our own beauty. It felt like an epiphany. Since then, I investigated that same lightness and strength in every woman I portrayed. Since then, every year in summer I get the chance to capture those same bodies changing, interacting, with new perspectives and new points of view.
Despite the passing of time I like to keep these pictures together, like my never ending diary, adding pieces of summer, climbing on my closest bodies.
© Zoe Natale Mannella
curator : Noemi Carrara