The presentation of the first book by Serena Pea, a photographer from Brescia who travels between Venice, London, Rome and Milan, while feeding on photography and theater, will be in Milan at the Sozzani Foundation bookshop.
Next Thursday 11 October at 19 pm the author, accompanied by Guido Scarabottolo and Stefano Salis, will present the book entitled Songül, published by La Grande Illusion editions. The eighty-page volume is a story inspired by the true story of a teacher, in the book she is given a fictional name, who in 2014, at the age of twenty-two, left for compulsory civil service in eastern Turkey, on the border with Syria.
Serena Pea's is a short remote photographic report where the words of the protagonist, extracted from the emails that she and the author exchanged over the course of three years, take on, in sparse and simplified English, the telegraphic form of the caption accompanying a fairy tale for dreamlike images and, by contrast, extraordinarily realistic.
The photographs that illustrate this story were created starting from models specially created by the set designer Alberto Nonnato and laid out by Guido Scarabottolo who, with this first photographic book, inaugurates the "Kismet" series of the publisher La Grande Illusion.
