Lights and shadows, contrasts hide faces and reveal emotions, the most intimate feelings. This is the essence of Cristina Altieri‘s shots, originally from Policoro, a small town in Basilicata overlooking the Ionian Sea, which now lives and works in Milan. 

In her live different personalities, different facets that we can find in her work. Cristina Altieri’s photographs are suspended in time and space, showing us bodies whose faces are hidden from us, whose glances we will never meet, but it is not important to know who they are. They are a means. Through their shapes, the lines of their backs and legs, through the most illuminated points and those left in the shadows Cristina reveals something more important. 

We have to go beyond appearances and discover new emotions and new feelings that would only last a second if Cristina did not print them on film forever. Not to be underestimated, in fact, the effect given by the analogical to the final result: perfect shots in their imperfection. 

Here below you can find a selection of Cristina Altieri’s works, to discover more of them go on her website and on her Instagram profile.