ABOUT

Martina Morini was born in Carrara in 1985 and graduated from the University of Padua with a degree in International Relations and Human Rights. In her university career, she studied and lived between Rome, Venice, Brussels and the Azores islands. She worked as a project manager in projects related to water rights within international NGOs that took her from Congo to Mongolia via Palestine and Iraq. It is during this period that she approached photography alternating her work with personal research projects.

In 2020 she attended a master’s degree in documentary photography with Giulio di Sturco.

Her themes revolve around rights violations and human and non-human migration. The crossing of borders, whether political, social or imaginary, is a common thread in her research. Photography in his works, is almost never pure but is a hybrid with other communicative languages that she inheritated from work experience or personal passions.

In 2021 the project “ALIEN” in which she tackles the issue of an alien species, the fig’s black weevil, won the Italian Photo Award and was exhibited at the International Month of Photojournalism IMP in Padua. In 2022 her project “A place to call C.A.S.A.”, a ‘family investigation on job loss, was exhibited at Fondazione Studio Marangoni.

Since July 2022, she has been working intermittently as a photographer on rescue ships and planes in the Mediterranean trying not to trace the usual narratives around this theme.