In 2023, Carla Sutera Sardo gained The Claire Aho Award for Girls Photographers. This class, launched in 2021, goals to encourage and rejoice girls photographers and is in reminiscence of Claire Aho, Finland’s biggest girls photographer.
Carla gained the class with a robust portrait. “There may be a lot power and depth of expression on this stunning 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 pictures journey and the story of that charming profitable {photograph}.
Photographer, Carla Sutera Sardo, gained The Claire Aho Award for Girls Photographers in 2023
How did you first get into pictures, Carla?
I approached pictures as a ardour throughout my College years, learning between Palermo and Rome. After my first method to self-portrait pictures, 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 specific my imaginative and prescient of issues by way of the digital camera. In my pictures there are feminine our bodies that dialogue with usually uncontaminated nature. I really like creating dream-like photographs, suspended in time. I prefer to create imaginaries removed from actuality, a bit of absurd if you happen to like.
‘Adua’s Kitchen’, winner of The Claire Aho Award for Girls Photographers, 2023. Taken by Carla Sutera Sardo at Adua’s house in Sicily
Inform us concerning the story behind the profitable {photograph}. Who’s the girl 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 all the time been fascinated by her life. She was positively an unbiased girl, she raised her 4 kids alone however she by no means overpassed the love for herself.
Inform us concerning 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 by way of her reminiscences. Each drawer emptied was a blast from the previous. I’m comfortable to have accompanied her on this typically painful section of her life. The profitable photograph was taken in her kitchen. After having packed some packing containers, we sat down and she or he instructed me about some comfortable moments spent inside these partitions. Afterwards I took the photograph and her face appeared melancholy.
What’s your recommendation for ladies who want to pursue a profession in pictures?
To not be afraid to decide on a path which will appear unsure, as a result of if you’re guided by love for what you do you’ll be able to by no means go mistaken.
You possibly can 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 Photograph and Movie Basis and in addition a member of our distinguished judging panel for The Claire Aho Award.
