Teresa Letizia Bontà

My photographic research originates from the body as the primary place of vision. I do not photograph to represent what I see, but to understand what moves through me. The body, with its memory and tensions, becomes the first perceptual space from which the image emerges. Photography is, for me, a process of listening and crossing: each project unfolds over time, as a stratification of experience, memory and vision. The image is never an endpoint, but a threshold connecting the visible and the invisible, the intimate and the collective. My work investigates themes of identity, belonging and transformation, often using black and white as a deliberate linguistic and symbolic choice. To photograph means to assume responsibility: to remain present, to resist simplification, and to allow the image to retain complexity and ambiguity.