Marina Ballo

Marina Ballo Charmet is one of the most important living Italian photographers. After earning a degree in philosophy, she specialized in psychology and child psychoanalysis and worked as a psychotherapist in Milan, the city where she has always lived. From the mid-1980s, she dedicated herself to photographic and artistic research. Her preferred subject is the everyday, the "always seen," which she defines as "the background noise of our minds. " She adopts a perspective characterized by perceptual mobility and an out-of-focus, lateral, or low-angle approach—typical of a child’s viewpoint—that conveys a fluctuating vision and peripheral perception linked to our preconscious. Her work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence, the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, the Triennale di Milano, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, MAXXI in Rome, CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and the 47th Venice Biennale. In 2022, she was awarded the "Strategia Fotografia" grant by the Italian Ministry of Culture.