A beautiful photographic exhibition about women.

An happy Saturday to all hivers here! It's a very wam sunny day here in my city and so this morning I decided to break my usual routine going outside to enjoy the air walking along the alleys in the center of my city. Just few minutes far from my home, but it looks like very different from the street where I live. So I imagined myself like a tourist who is visiting this places. I took a lot of pics around, while my hubby @paolobeneforti was waiting me sitting in a beautiful corner of te main square and working on a drawing about the view in front of him. Inside the ancient building called Palazzo di Giano there is a very interesting photographic exhibition and so I went there.

The opening there was days ago, but usually I prefer to visit the exhibitions after the opening, when there are less people around and so I can enjoy the visit in a more comfortable way.

The Anna Alberghina's photographic exhibition called “Donne in bilico” (Women in the Balance) is really interesting to watch, because it's a sort of journey all over the world. A lot of wonderful portraits of women of different countries tell us about many different lives and stories to tell. As I read on a flyer there, "Through faces, gestures and landscapes, Alberghina captures fragments of communities far removed from our cultural references, offering an intense and topical view of the present."

There are 40 different portraits of women in traditional dresses, little girls, moms with newborns from countries like the Guinea, Tibet, Guatemala, africa and others.

Anna Alberghina, as I read googling her name, is a doctor and a globetrotting photographer.Since around 40 years she travel to search of “intact” peoples to preserve a trace of them from oblivion thanks her photographs.

Along the years she took pics of many many women in villages and places so far, like the Aftar women between Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, to the Maya women in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in Guatemala. I think this is a way, for us, to know a little more the different cultures and the life of women who lives so far from us, but also a way to preserve the memories and the stories of people.

See ya soon and stay safe, Silvia

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