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love, sex and relationships
documentary video and photographic project — selected interview extracts

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love, sex and relationships is a long-term video and photography project built through intimate conversations with couples and individuals reflecting on love, sex, emotional dependency, intimacy, and human connection.

​Developed in London before Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, the work emerged during a period marked by personal instability and relational violence.

 

The project combines video interviews, black-and-white analog photography, fragments of writing, reflections, and personal notes. Over 40 hours of conversations were recorded using a Canon 5D Mark III digital camera, later edited into a six-hour video archive. The photographic work was produced separately using a Mamiya 6x7 medium format camera and black-and-white film.

 

To escape violence, emotional confusion, and a growing sense of helplessness, I began reaching out to couples and individuals for intimate conversations about love.

I interviewed 25 strangers, meeting them in their homes or in spaces where they felt most comfortable.

 

The project emerged from a need to understand what being in a relationship truly means, and how deeply individuals are able to love, confront, or recognise themselves through connection with others.

Through video, photography, and conversation, the work gradually became not only a documentary archive, but also a process of personal reflection and confrontation.

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Participants spoke openly about relationships, desire, separation, loneliness, marriage, identity, vulnerability, love and self-perception.​ Rather than constructing fixed conclusions about love, the project functions as a fragmented archive of voices, contradictions, emotional structures, and lived experiences.

​Over time, the project evolved into an ongoing book project currently in development.

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The interviews range from 25 to 50 minutes and were recorded in English with English subtitles.

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The project includes:

  • 40 hours of recorded interviews

  • A six-hour video archive

  • Black-and-white analog portraits

  • Fragments of writing and personal reflections

  • An ongoing book project currently in development

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

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