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love, sex and relationships

a project in documentary video and photography

​​love, sex and relationships is a collection of intimate conversations between myself and others.

It is a video and photography documentation project that includes questions posed to myself, couples, and individuals who live or have lived in relationships involving love, sex, and connection, mixed with photographs, reflections, thoughts, emotions, and poems.

I collected around 40 hours of interviews that I used to create a six-hour video documentation.

I then captured black-and-white analog photographs with a medium format camera, a Mamiya 6x7.

After six years, the love, sex and relationships video and photography project has evolved into a book project, which is still in production.

The project was born in London before Brexit and Covid-19, during a romantic relationship with my ex-boyfriend, which later became violent.

To escape pain, violence, and the overwhelming feelings of helplessness and confusion, I reached out to couples and individuals for intimate conversations about love. I interviewed 25 strangers using a Canon 5D Mark III digital camera, meeting them in their homes or wherever they felt most comfortable. My aim was to explore what being in a relationship truly means to others and to understand how deeply each person could love themselves. Through photography and video, this project also became therapeutic: a personal journey of self-reflection, discovery, awareness, and ultimately, healing.

People interviewed: Filiz, (single mother), Ganga (divorced after ten years of marriage), Gill and Richard, (married for thirty years), Giulia and Edwin (together for 18 years, married for 4), Esperanza (married for 30 years, separated with a daughter),  Agnese and Virginia (married for two years), James and Joakim (in a loving relationship), Toni King ( single, divorced, with a teen that he can’t see),  Robert and Sarah (married for 30 years, with three children), Chris (single), Wen Wei and Valeria (getting married soon after six months of engagement),  Giulia and  Diana (in a love relationship for two years), Robin and Paola (married for four years), Mum and Dad (married for 45 years with four children), Erica (a six-years-old female child), Laszlo (my ex-boyfriend).

Each video has a duration ranging from 25 to 50 minutes, for a total of almost six hours. The video documentation was recorded in London and is in English, with English subtitles. Through this project, I want to inspire others to reflect on self-love, on how much they truly care for and respect themselves, and on their own experiences in relationships.

Visit the Photo Section to explore the black-and-white images that capture the essence of these conversations and emotions.

Trailer of love, sex and relationships'

The trailer of love, sex and relationships 

video and documentary photography project

Filiz, single mother | extract from love,sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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Giulia and Diana, from friendship to love  | A queer story of intimacy and activism | extract from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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Laszlo, my ex-boyfriend | A story of pain, healing and self-love | extract from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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Agnese and Virginia, married since 2012 | extract from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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Robin and Paola, married for 4 years | A story of timeless love \ extract from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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Gill and Richard: 30 years of love, intimacy and connection \extract from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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James and Joakim | Exploring Love and Identity | extract from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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Sarah and Robert: married 13 years with three children | Extract from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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Wen Wei and Valeria, together for six months and soon to be married | extraxt from love, sex and relationships | Loredana Denicola
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