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Hidden Beauty Brought To Light By Cristina Coral
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- Name
- Cristina Coral
- Project
- Hidden Beauty
- Words
- Anna Dorothea Ker
Self-taught Italian photographer Cristina Coral captures “traces of the internal dialogue” in her ‘Hidden Beauty’series.
“My female figures are closed in their intimacy almost in self-analysis of themselves.”In featuring women with their facial features hidden – behind curtains, draped over furniture or simply turned away from the camera – Coral teases out the complicated relationship between presence and absence. Her figures appear “closed in their intimacy almost in self-analysis of themselves, in introspection and research,” she explains. Coral’s work has been featured in a wide range of publications including Vogue and Art Tribune, exhibited throughout Italy and Europe, and won several photography awards.
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All images © Cristina Coral