Animal lover

This project started in 2015 trying to express the special relationship that some people establish with what she would call “unusual pets”. It surprised her to discover how much feeling and intimacy can be shared between people and animals and how many are the people who really care. So far, she has been working close to her own town, in Northern Italy. She came in contact with animal sanctuaries, vegan activists or with people who were just people who are fond of animals. Many of them have an interesting story to tell, some of them entered in a factory with a balaclava in the middle of the night to save a pig, others have described their character, over the years they have learned how to communicate perfectly. She has also discovered a big community of people who are involved in the unexpected world of insects. According to FAO reports we all will eat insects sooner than we think, it’s already common in certain cultures but the western people still have a kind of repugnance toward them. So she has focused this story also on insect breeders (or simply, insect lovers). These people - who often have a personal and even tender relationship with them – could explain how important bugs are for our planet, their beauty and character. Every portrait should speak by itself a personal story, it should show an unexpected connection that human could have with different species. The picture of the animal could be with or without including the physical presence of the human but they all suggest an interaction and a sort of “comfort feeling” with the human world.