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Angela Lo Priore is an Italian photographer well known as a portraitist.

Her portraits of celebrities were collected in the book “One Hundred Portraits” – Skira (publisher) in 2014. She worked on a project “Manichini/Mannequins” in an abandoned factory in Montenegro in 2011.

In 2014, she published her book “Eat Me!” – Skira (publisher), and in 2021 the book “Stairs Obsession”- Prearo editore .

Biography
Angela Lo Priore lives and works in Milan. She lived for many years in Rome where she graduated in Literature with a bachelor thesis in Cinema from  "Sapienza University of Rome" and where her photographic career began. She graduated from the Istituto Europeo di Design with a degree in Photography. She is a professional photographer, who has experimented with multiple forms of photography: starting with architecture, to advertising, to fashion, and finally translating into portrait photography her true artistic talent: reportage and cinema. Her exhibit "Nel cinema", portraits of international actors, was inaugurated under the patronage of the "Rome Film Fest" in 2006 and was then displayed and applauded the following year at the "Tribeca Film Festival" in New York. In 2014 she published “One Hundred Portraits” with Skira (publisher), a collection of portraits of international actors. After which, Angela Lo Priore began focusing more on photographic exploration, in order to develop and investigate beauty in all its forms, in particular through feminine artistic nudity. Through her exploration of images which gradually progress toward other art forms, she created the installation “Manichini/Mannequins”, designed in Cetinje in Montenegro in 2011 and then presented in Milan during the Milan Fashion Week (showroom Isaia, February 2012) and MIA Photo Fair (May 2012). Also at the MIA Photo Fair in 2016 Angela Lo Priore presented her book “Eat Me!”, forty images of women in relation to food. In 2017 she starts her project "Stairs Obsession" presented at Paris Photo in November of that year and during the following three years at MIA Photo Fair Milan and at Fo.To. – Fotografi in Turin at the gallery “Photo & Contemporary”. The project became a book published by Prearo editore in 2021. In September 2020 Angela Lo Priore opened her own studio and gallery “A.L.P. Studio&Gallery” in Milan. In 2021, the photographer has embarked on a new project, as of now, still a work in progress, portraying Wadadli woman in a Caribbean island. She is represented by the Valerio Tazzetti gallery “Photo & Contemporary” in Turin.

Photography career
Best known for her portrait photography, she has photographed Al Pacino, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, and many other celebrities.

One Hundred Portraits
The book “One Hundred Portraits” is a compilation of 100 analog pictures taken in different years of many celebrities when she worked in the film industry. Behind these images there is a particular talent of capturing the humanity of each subject, who are the characters of the world of cinema. She captured it with simplicity and expressive freshness. Published in 2014 by Skira (publisher).

Manichini/Mannequins
In 2011, she made an installation entitled “Manichini/Mannequins” in Montenegro. Josip Broz Tito’s ex-Jugoslavia communist rules left deep scars in Montenegro’s geopolitical structures, so unnatural, as well as surreal, and which haven’t been able to be “healed” aesthetically: enormous abandoned factories, where once thousands and thousands of Yugoslavs used to work. Places where, within their silent walls, almost spectral, metallic, day after day the rust eats away at the immense labyrinth of abandoned production lines and where and occasional ray of light manages to filters through the wide opaque windowpanes, many of which still intact. Such is the place, which inspired her to write. A desire to express the strong contrast between this decadent location, long-ago forgotten, yet, which still maintains the allure of a time long gone. The models, which have exported their bodies around the world to be used and abused by the fashion system, which created (or builds) them, using them for basic consumption, and eventually demolishing these same bodies. This seriality of factory-customized beauty, is symbolically represented by the production line used to build cars, or similar. Just like this system continues to attract new generation of women from country only beginning to get a taste of the consumer society, is just like moths being attracted to light.

Eat Me!
In 2016, she made a second book, “Eat Me!” which Angela Lo Priore takes us with these images inside the heads of women who eat or dream of eating, to the heart of the relationship between their bodies and food, to the solitude of its truth. It is hardly a coincidence that the author should have signed the book ironically with the photo of herself in which the camera, her tool of expression, is turned into a food mincer. There are bodies of all ages, sizes, and colors, naked, and clothed. It should be noted that the subject are not professional models but students, stylists, managers, and film director. Her works is a collective experiment that relates bodies to individual foods. There is a discourse on the voluptuousness of certain foods and on the ineluctable and ineluctably symbolic powers of others. All this is happening while the culture of consumption, at least in our rich West, goes on using the hackneyed formulas of moldy stereotype to separate the sexes. In-depth analysis of the most widely shown commercials in the USA has revealed that everything is engineered to make us think that some foods are more suitable for males (hamburgers) and others for females (yogurt).

Stairs Obsession
In 2021, a new book was released, “Stairs Obsession”, started with Angela’s idea from deep within her subconscious, maybe that is why, its defined autobiographical. Vertigo has always been a constant part of life, she has always been hypnotized by that which represents a void. She chose to not use professional models, but rather she worked with “real” women. She let herself be inspired by their personality, each one distinct and she let them fall as they wished.

Exhibitions

 * 2006, October: Galleria 1/9 in Rome – “Portrait”
 * 2007, May: Tribeca Film Festival “Factory for Cinema” in New York – “Nel Cinema” photographs
 * 2012, February: ISAIA Showroom, Milan Fashion Week in Milan – “Manichini/Mannequins”
 * 2012, May: MIA Photo Fair in Milan – “Manichini/Mannequins”
 * 2012, July: Alta Moda Roma – Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande in Rome – “Manichini/Mannequins”
 * 2014, May: MIA Photo Fair in Milan – “One Hundred Portraits” book release
 * 2014, August: Venice Film Festival – Sina Centurion Palace in Venice – “One Hundred Portraits”
 * 2015, April: MIA Photo Fair in Milan – “Eat Me!” and “One Hundred Portraits”
 * 2016, April: MIA Photo Fair in Milan – “Eat Me!” book release
 * 2016, October: Festival del Cinema di Roma – Libreria NoteBook Auditorium in Rome – “Eat Me!” book presentation
 * 2016, December: Bubbles Lounge Bar in Milan – “Eat Me!”
 * 2017, November: Paris Photo in Paris – “Stairs Obsession”
 * 2018, November: Paris Photo in Paris – “Stairs Obsession”
 * 2019, March: MIA Photo Fair in Milan
 * 2019, November: Paris Photo in Paris – “Stairs Obsession”
 * 2020, October: “Eros Capitale”, Stadio di Domiziano in Rome – Exhibition of a nude photoshoot done in New York and “Manichini/Mannequins”
 * 2021, February: "A.L.P. studio&gallery" in Milan - Photography and cocktail with the artist

Awards

 * 2014, October: "Premio Afrodite 2014" in Rome
 * 2021, September: "Venice Edition Award" for Successful Celebrity Photographer in Venice

Books

 * "Manichini/Mannequins", 2011
 * "One Hundred Portraits", 2014 - Skira (publisher)
 * "Eat Me!", 2016 - Skira (publisher)
 * "Stairs Obsession", 2021 - Prearo Editore