love, sex and relationships

video and documentary photography project​

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​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.

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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 relationship for two years

Robin and Paola, married for four years

Mum and Dad, married for 45 years with four children

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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.​​​​