Make-up, creativity, a conceptual view of things and a unique personal style, these are the four key ingredients in the self-portraits of Nassia Stouraiti, a young, self-taught photographer from Greece.
Nassia is 22 years old, she studied law and communication at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and has always been passionate about photography. In her shots she is the protagonist of the scene, using herself as a blank canvas, immortalising her face like a painting and enriching it with different make-up and colours.
Her aesthetic vision of the world takes inspiration from cinema and from great European directors such as Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Pedro Almodóvar and Paolo Sorrentino.
Although she works and experiments extensively with photography, Nassia Stouraiti dreams of working with the seventh art. So, just like these great directors, she too, in her own way, seems to want to dig deep into her inner self and analyse existential concepts with photography. Her shots carry a profound message about identification, the image of women, the relationship with others, dreams and reality.
After all, her art is conceptual and should therefore be looked at, appreciated and interpreted personally.
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See a selection of her shots here, follow her on Instagram and visit her personal website.
Words by Federica Cimorelli
