// A N N A D I P R O S P E R O //
Anna di Prospero is an Italian photographer who has been working on a self-portrait series called With You, where she appears alongside family members and friends. i like that even though it’s a self-portrait series she isn’t necessarily the star of the images – but the focus if rather about her relationship with these important people in her life. however you may interpret it, the images themselves are absolutely beautiful – with an amazing rich colour palette that runs through the entire series.”
Anna’s images pair rich landscapes with intimate portraits in a bid to form both aesthetically pleasing and contextually thoughtful images. Many of her images make use of the double exposure technique which combines multiple layers of photos to create a final composition. Often this process makes use of landscapes and textures overlaid with forms and figures as seen below in Anna’s own work.
Much of her work is shot though a window such as the above creating a seemingly natural double exposure which makes use of reflections occurring within the image. This photographic technique and style creates a double image within a single frame where two photos can be seen together rather than separately. The landscape above shows an urban garden and swimming poor reflected onto herself and her family member. Perhaps by linking each part of her family to a particular area or setting an emotional link is created between person and place. 
Other examples of Anna’s work feature what could be seen as ordinary double exposure techniques such as digitally – or manually – layering two images over each other with a difference in opacity rather than relying on natural reflections and lighting. In the two photos above, flowers have been overlaid across the figures forming unusual compositions. The muted colour palette in Anna’s work helps to carry her aesthetic and supports her overall theme of identity and confusion within the midst of reality. Using her family as models within each of her tableau images, Anna finds herself in the people who mean the most to her.
Water plays an important role in many of Anna’s images representing a different reality which she tends to be being pulled out of or falling into. The second image here has a strong symbolic reference of the help and support given to her by her family and friends who literally pull her out of the deep water she is trying to escape from.
