Video Trailer: 'Love, Sex & Relationships', length (3mins 40 secs), a video & photo documentation by Loredana Denicola

Full video is 5 hours, 50 minutes and 45 seconds, 25 people interviewed.

Love, Sex and Relationships

BW film photography/ Mamiya 6x7/ FB Silver Gelatine fine Art prints / size 16" x 20"/17 black and white images/Arttbook / Photographed: 2015-2019

What is 'Love, Sex and Relationships'?

‘Love, Sex and Relationships’ is a series of portraits and videos, which include questions to myself, to couples and to individuals who are, or were, in love, sex and relationships.

Through interviews, I entered an intimate space of memories, thoughts and feelings.

I invited the people to represent themselves to the camera, any way they wished. Traditionally, a photographer searches for telling images of his or her subject. My approach has been, rather, to find out how the subjects of my project might portray themselves.

I wanted to explore what it is like for others to be in a relationship.
What is Love? What is Sex? What is a Relationship?
Do you love yourself?
Does education, culture, religion confuse us?
What do we fear? Are we free?

I began this project in July 2015, while I was in a nine month abusive relationship.
I didn’t love myself.
I used the photographic process as a therapeutic tool, that helped me to understand that what I was missing was, indeed, self-love.
I interviewed each individual or couple, and made video and sound recordings of our conversations - in which I asked them the same questions, collecting more than 40 hours of conversations and pictures.
I was there to listen.

The video photography project includes photographs in black and white, a video (total length 5 hours 50 mins with English subtitles) and a photography book project.