portfolio
mixed season
blue season
red season
manifesto strappato su un muro di Berlino e particolari di una foto (manifestazione di moda, Londra)
omaggio ai Rem: Lexington avenue dietro un graffito della 57esima
yellow season
veduta notturna dalla stazione (Warschauerstraße) e scritta su un muro
ragazze che passeggiano, incorniciate in una fessura del Muro originale a Bornholmerstraße
la ruota del millennio (Londra) compie un giro in un graffito di Berlino (zona Friedrichshain)
vetro rotto nella U-BahnHermannplatz e scritta su un muro
un bar di PrenzlauerBerg invaso da “un muro” di ricordi
vista dal ponte della S-bahn in un muro di Moabit
demolizioni e costruzioni in Brunnenstraße e vecchia scritta su un muro
black&white season
portrait of a woman in a detail of a mur peint from Lyon
rain at the exit of the U-Bahn Karl Marx straße and old signs on a wall in Brunnenstraße
heavy rain on the bridge and an almost bombed-out wall of Viale Monza
bio
A mixed-race Milanese journalist, Anna La Stella began photographing in 1972. From her first black and white portraits, her lens gradually pointed towards glimpses of urban life and, in particular, the harsh and irreverent landscape of the suburbs. His favourite subjects, in games of wide-angle and zoom lenses, become the walls: places so exposed that they are no longer seen. Networks of denunciations and utopias that, in their being everyone’s and no one’s, recount anonymous revenge against homologation.
Writings, graffiti, explosions of colours chase each other in the shots. Proclamations of vitality and anger, offered by the city walls, which La Stella transforms into a starting point on which to propose new stories and possibilities.
On a sort of large canvas – made up of cracks, excrescences and hollows in the walls – the author in fact carves very personal virtual brushstrokes: overlapping words, memories, images, until she achieves an effect of rarefied and suspended works.
