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She started carrying a camera around with her at any time when living abroad and, ever since, it has been her major form of both introspective and external exploration. Being a feminist, she began following feminist photography as a synthesis of concern, passions and ideas.

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NEITHER VIRGIN NOR WHORE

Chiara Fazzone +November 19, 2019

The classification of women according to men’s needs or experiences is something so deeply rooted in our culture that some women themselves, even realizing ho...
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‘They hired me to do my job, but this seems irrelevant at times’

Chiara Fazzone +October 21, 2019

Foto Femme United has been talking a lot about sexism in the photography industry since its creation, bringing to the surface discrepancies in representation, o...
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The Misleading Use of "pro-life"

Chiara Fazzone +September 29, 2019

The shift to the extreme right that the world is living in these past years carries multiple threats to the hardly- conquered women’s fundamental rights. One ...
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Fighting abuse against models:

Chiara Fazzone +August 15, 2019

Models in the fashion industry are constantly exposed to make-up artists, hairstylists, photographers and others working behind the scenes like journalists betw...
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The Right to Choose is a Human Right

Chiara Fazzone +July 26, 2019

For women who led the feminist revolutions of the past decades and conquered liberation from laws that culturally erased women’s sexuality and their right to ...
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Bloody stigma!

Chiara Fazzone +June 14, 2019

Menstruation is a natural body function as any other. The average woman has her period for 2,535 days of the life, nearly seven years. Yet, women frequently fee...
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Can our voice have a colour? Ask a photographer.

Chiara Fazzone +May 14, 2019

The strength of colour is no secret. We associate it with feelings, phenomena and preferences, as we do to political fronts, movements and ideologies. Conventio...
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"You look unreal."

Chiara Fazzone +April 23, 2019

We all probably think of images from the 1950s and 60s when we talk about sexist advertisements, which is not wrong. We do however tend to neglect the pertinenc...
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Shooting against gender discrimination in commercial photography

Chiara Fazzone +April 22, 2019

It is no secret that photography has been a male-dominated industry since its birth. Historically, women have always been largely under-represented in the creat...
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Diane Arbus

Chiara Fazzone +April 22, 2019

Diane Arbus (born Diane Nemerov in 1923 to a wealthy Jewish family) was an American photographer of Russian origins, well known for her black and white images o...
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Intersectional Feminism and the Beauty Within Diversity

Chiara Fazzone +April 22, 2019

One crucial point that has to be clarified in order to fully appreciate Foto Femme United’s work is the idea of woman as perceived by this community. A woman ...