I am Ilaria Miani, an amateur photographer.
I don't remember the first time I held a camera in my hands, but I most definitely remember the two key moments when I experienced the magic of photography. The first time was in my brother's dark room, and I was really just a child, and then later, as a teenager, when my father took me to a National Geographic photo exhibition in Rome. After that, I had no choice, photography has definitely become my world. From that moment on I've had the opportunity to live very different experiences, and over the years I've tested myself, trying to find my personal feeling, my own sense of style in my photography.
Picture by picture one by one, I have acquired an awareness of how an image can be important because it has the power to provide documentary evidence of our lives, an instrument to inspect our common humanity. Much more powerful because each frame is a human being squared: in each image there is not just what I see, but how I see it with all my emotions, background, feeling, happiness, sadness, culture, knowledge, experiences, lack of experiences. This is why photography is unique. And it is with this belief that I took photos.
In recent years, I have focused myself in documenting places where there are ethnic groups which still maintain their traditional habits, but which are very much in danger of being lost, because of the increasing globalization. With my photos I hope to give those people a voice.
