Marina Berardi
http://www.marinaberardi.net
Università della Basilicata, Italy
I was born in 1983 in Grassano (Basilicata, Italy). Currently I live in Rome where I studied in Cultural Anthropology and where I started training in social photography at the Wsp Photography in Rome. The projects aim to have a connection with the formation anthropological and therefore the focus is on human
conditions, life stories, and ritual practices.
In 2013, a few photos of the workshop in Ethiopia are awarded at to Nikon Talents becoming overall winner of the contest and getting the first prize in the category Street and Reportage.
Also I receive, in 2017, first prize to the contest Metropolis Fest and mentions a to other international competitions such as IPA, Px3, Sony World Photography Awards, Human Photography Award. Moreover, in recent years I began to
follow an ancient rite arboreal in Lucania, the Maggio di Accettura, a marriage between trees, which is part of a wider reflection on The Circular Time, along with the work of St. Agatha in Catania, once in every a thousand ever, the rites of Holy Week and the Carnival of Tricarico, Prometheus and Carnival. The latter was published in the journal Erodoto 108 and then by the publishing house Casalta as a photo book. In 2014 in a residential therapeutic rehabilitation for the treatment of people with voluntary psychotherapeutic psychopathological disorders can not be
treated at home has made the photographic work The Polar Bear is not a star. It is currently engaged in a research project of anthropological Urban Studies in the district of La Magliana coordinated by the Department of Culture History Religions at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" realizing the photographic work Inner Places. This project was a photo exhibition by Fondazione Sassi, Matera in 2017.
In 2016 I completed a research of Visual Anthropology to Iraq with the Italian archaeological Mission of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". A few photos of the research in Iraq are published on the National Geographic Italia gallery. In 2017 I collaborated as an anthropologist to the project, New City Map, organized by the Order of Architects, Mibact and Siae together with a multidisciplinary team with the aim of investigating the relationship between migrants and public space.