Emme Divi

Emme Divi, born Marcella Dalla Valle in 1971, is an Italian movement photographer whose works are characterized by a conceptual and abstract approach to the human being and the landscapes that surround her. After graduating in Modern Literature from the State University of Milan, she began her self-taught journey into photography, driven by her passion for poetry and the reciprocal influence between the two languages. In her works, the image is a word, and the idea of photographing words inevitably translates into the subconscious, which becomes a visual experience. The consciousness of photographic time, on the other hand, translates into a final rendering that wants to be visual literature, the poetic image. The choice to shoot in black and white together with the use of long exposure (Blur, Intentional Camera Movement) is a thoughtful but also instinctive and necessary choice in this context of her research. Emme Divi is obsessed with time, but with her images, she snatches fragments of life from the oblivion of time to represent them, yes in the real, in space, but above all in their possibility of being. In 2023 she received the Gold and Silver recognition at the Prix de Photographie de Paris and the Silver and Bronze re-Focus Awards, NY. Short list at BBA Prize, Berlin. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and Japan.