Lara Ciarabellini
© Lara Ciarabellini
Silentium
One hundred years ago, following the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914, the First World War started. For almost one year, the Kingdom of Italy maintained the state of neutrality: only on 23rd May 1915 the Kingdom declared war to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, enlarging the already vast territory involved in the First World War.
“Silentium” talks about places related to one of the two front lines between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the one along the river Isonzo/Soča on the Kars Plateu in Venezia Giulia/Julijska Krajina, the extreme north east of Italy. It investigates what remain of places, such as peaceful cemeteries, silent lines of trenches, invisible frontiers between the Empire and the Kingdom, still battlefields, after one hundred years.
Biography
Lara Ciarabellini is an Italian photographer currently based near Trieste (Italy). In 2012 sheI received a Master degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of Arts.
Lara I participated in the mentorship program LOOKBetween - part of the LOOK3 festival - for emerging photographers, in Charlottesville, USA (13-15 June 2014).
In June 2014, she presented a paper titled “Collective memory and social landscape photography” in the framework of the conference “Museum of Memory” at Plymouth University, UK.
Recently, she received the second place in the portfolio review during the Month of Photography in Bratislava and received the award for Humanistic Photography at the Phodar Biennial 2015.
Lara Ciarabellini is represented by Anzenberger Agenc, Vienna, Austria.
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