Mirrors and Windows is a portrait series by Italian
photographers Gabriele Galimberti and Edoardo Dilelle that draws insight
into the lives of women across the world based on their intimate living spaces.
Like the work of
Rania Matar, this collaborative effort
presents a number of young women from different countries and social standings
who have invited the photographers into their bedrooms to capture them in their
personal space. While some have countless possessions, living in the lap of
luxury, others are clearly not as fortunate.
The project states: "In a world that is increasingly
shaped by global standardization and IKEA aesthetics, this work explores the
rooms of the conventional and the eccentric, the rich and the poor, the mother
and the single, the pious and the unbelieving, the sports-obsessed and the
shopping-addicted, the tomboy and the girly-girl, the tidy and the shambolic…
These bedrooms are the mirrors of the history, personality, culture, obsessions
and social status of the girls that occupy them, but are also unique windows
into these young women’s worlds."
How this is relevant to my project
Each image tells us a lot about the person by looking into their bedroom environment. In my studio shots i want the viewer to know his/her job through the prop that will be held in the image.