Senise
My grandmother Antonia Retta left her hometown Senise, in Italy, at age 30. I went back to the town 55 years later to understand through photography the reasons of the her emigration, the power of the memory and rediscover my personal history.
Senise is a project developed with a scholarship by The Danish School of Media and Journalism during the “Visual project workshop”.
A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands in a town near Senise, Italy, February 2016.
My grandmother, Antonia Retta, looking for old pictures between her belongings in her room in Banfield, Argentina. Her postcards were my letter of introduction in Senise, a little town of five thousand inhabitants.
A letter that my grandmother received from her family in Senise, Italy.
A woman walks with an umbrella in Senise, Italy, February 2016.
A fallen flower vase in the cemetery of Senise, Italy, February 2016.
Draw of the genealogic three of my family in Senise, Italy, February 2016.
An old picture of my grandmother, center, with her sisters in Senise, Italy, February 2016.
" I love you" written in a wall in Senise, Italy, February 2016.
My cousin holds a picture frame with a portrait of Rosa Amatatelli and Genaro Retta, my grandmother's parents in Senise, Italy, February 2016.
A picture that I found in Senise of me as a baby with my grandmother Antonia Retta in my grandparents’ house in Banfield, February 2016.
A picture of my grandmother and my father before they left Senise, February 2016.
An abandoned house, many people leave their home to migrate, Senise, Italy, February 2016.
A funeral coffin leaves the church of Senise, Italy, February 2016.
The funerary vault of my grandmother's family in the cemetery of Senise, Italy, February 2016.
A picture of me as a baby, with my father and my mother in my grandparents’ house in Banfield, Buenos Aires at 1990´s. I discovered this picture for first time in an old album in Senise, Italy.
Birds fly during the sunset in Senise, Italy, February 2016.
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