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

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.

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.

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

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

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
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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