2014 Sony World Photography Awards - 2nd Place, Arts & Culture, Professional Competition
Elisa Sturaro discovered her interest for photography after her graduation in Economics in 2000, when she asked for her first analogical reflex as a present.
After gaining some experience in using the camera and in printing my pictures, Elisa decided to give consistency to her passion with a course on photography technique and fine art dark room printing at the Istituto Eurpopeo di Design in Turin while she was there for working reasons during 2003. As part of her career, she moved to Rome and spent some years working on her photography projects and on dark room printing. Elisa Sturaro then decided to invest in her education by taking a master of photography at the Istituto Superiore per la Fotografia e la Comunicazione Integrata in Rome, during the AA 2006/2007. The master included disciplines of reportage and photojournalism, history of photography, still life through the use of optical bench, fashion photography, fine art printing and digital photography. At that time, Elisa couldn’t afford to quit change her professional path, but she had always continued to use her passion for photography as a powerful tool to deeply know the reality of her personal life.
Elisa Sturaro is mainly involved in street/documentary photography trying to recount something about lifestyle and peculiar situations in the different countries she has the chance to go due to her job or in her everyday life while performing the regular daily activities, the latter often making her digress from street to fine art photography sounding emotions and feeling of my inner life. In both cases, Elisa always consider photography as research: research on world surrounding me everywhere she has the chance to go, research on her personal life and on people belonging to it and, as a consequence, research on inwardness: scanning life situations helps her deepen her generic knowledge as well as her self-knowledge, trying hopefully to achieve the latter to better understand the human nature.