In 2023, Carla Sutera Sardo received The Claire Aho Award for Girls Photographers. This class, launched in 2021, goals to encourage and have a good time ladies photographers and is in reminiscence of Claire Aho, Finland’s best ladies photographer.
Carla received the class with a strong portrait. “There’s a lot power and depth of expression on this lovely older girl’s face,” says Caroline Kenyon, Founding father of the Awards. “She sits, as immaculate as a mannequin, in her kitchen, surrounded by beloved possessions. What tales can these 4 partitions inform?”
For our newest weblog, in celebration of Worldwide Girls’s Day, we interviewed Carla about her images journey and the story of that fascinating successful {photograph}.
Photographer, Carla Sutera Sardo, received The Claire Aho Award for Girls Photographers in 2023
How did you first get into images, Carla?
I approached images as a ardour throughout my College years, learning between Palermo and Rome. After my first method to self-portrait images, I devoted myself to larger experimentation, linked to what’s most uncommon and uncontaminated in Sicilian nature and I developed a private language that allowed me to precise my imaginative and prescient of issues via the digital camera. In my images there are feminine our bodies that dialogue with typically uncontaminated nature. I really like creating dream-like photographs, suspended in time. I prefer to create imaginaries removed from actuality, a bit of absurd in the event you like.
‘Adua’s Kitchen’, winner of The Claire Aho Award for Girls Photographers, 2023. Taken by Carla Sutera Sardo at Adua’s dwelling in Sicily
Inform us in regards to the story behind the successful {photograph}. Who’s the woman within the portrait within the photograph and what’s her story?
The story behind the {photograph} options Adua, a form girl, because the protagonist. I’ve identified her since I used to be a baby and I’ve at all times been fascinated by her life. She was undoubtedly an unbiased girl, she raised her 4 kids alone however she by no means overpassed the love for herself.
Inform us in regards to the strategy of capturing the picture.
I began photographing Adua throughout Covid at a time when she was pressured to maneuver from the home in Sicily the place she had lived for 40 years. We retraced her life collectively via her recollections. Each drawer emptied was a blast from the previous. I’m glad to have accompanied her on this generally painful part of her life. The successful photograph was taken in her kitchen. After having packed some containers, we sat down and he or she advised me about some glad moments spent inside these partitions. Afterwards I took the photograph and her face appeared melancholy.
What’s your recommendation for girls who want to pursue a profession in images?
To not be afraid to decide on a path which will appear unsure, as a result of in case you are guided by love for what you do you possibly can by no means go mistaken.
You may see all of the earlier finalists of The Claire Aho Award right here.
Discover out extra about Claire’s life in our weblog interview together with her son, Jussi Brofeldt. Jussi is Chairman of Aho & Soldan Picture and Movie Basis and in addition a member of our distinguished judging panel for The Claire Aho Award.
