Francesco Pennacchio
Unlike Flowers, She won’t come back with Spring
'Dad. Will Mum come back with Spring like flowers do?' After 30 years, I opened the closet where I confined the memory of my mother Emanuela, who died of a cancer when I was two. The project portrays my journey through the traces she left on Earth. I juxtapose the renovating natural world against the fragments of her life captured on film. I choose polaroids as physical building blocks for the reconstruction of her memory, and the prosperous family archive acts as their counterparts, to find a meeting point between us - halfway - and ultimately demonstrate that Emanuela was and is more than the mere narrative I have been told.
Leah Band • Nick Goring • Francesco Pennacchio • Alina Saranti • Louise Taylor •
Arts University Bournemouth
MA Photography
University of Brighton
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University of Derby
MA Film and Photography
Falmouth University
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London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
University of Portsmouth
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Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography