ELENA ORTA

Cluster Exhibitor | Photography & Print Fair 2022

 
 

We know about love

 

Elena Orta (b. 1995, Naples, Italy) is a photographer currently living and working in Amsterdam.
For 5 years she developed her vision and her perspective by doing reportage and telling stories in Naples while studying Architecture.
She then started to focus more on creative portraits and fashion interwoven with the theme of intimacy. This brought her to Paris in 2019 exhibiting one picture in the gallery Joseph Turenne, in the heart of Le Marais(exhibition “Ethereal: A daily poetry.” , by ImageNation Paris, at Galerie Joseph Turenne). Later on, in October 2019, she moved to Amsterdam. This move changed her life completely. New visions were also generated by the encounter with communities she met and hung out with.

 
 
 

Music, arts, and critical theories are part of this transition. Elena has been selected for FRESHEYES talent 2020 (exhibition at Westergas, Amsterdam ), and in December 2020 for GUP New talent 2021 (exhibition at Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam). As a last involvement, the picture "Patricia & Eduardo", (taken during the pandemic in Amsterdam 2020) has been selected as one of 30 winning single images of Portrait of Humanity 2021 by British Journal Of Photography. The winning photos were displayed at different photo festivals across the world: Melbourne Photo Festival, Belfast Photo Festival, Indian Photo Festival.

 

Patricia

 
 
 
 

The dancers

 

The dancers

 
 
 
 

What I truly want is to remember the beauty and the experience of this human body through the arts. Photography helped me to channel this will.
What comes out of my photographs is something very familiar, soft and intimate (oneiric / dreamlike). Lately I've also been experimenting with describing the state of the soul through details found in what I call my "inner landscapes".
(As seen in "Lost in transition", 2021, born from a collaboration with Arkna Project in Amsterdam.)

 
 

Quello che resta

Lost in transition