Rita Puig Serra Costa is a documentary photographer who lives and works in Barcelona, in which she combines personal projects based on events in her life, such as her 2014 work 
‘Where Mimosa Bloom’ which is a project that focuses on the life of her late mother and how her death effected the people closest to her, this project won her numerous awards and was published in the ‘Ruby Star’ magazine. She studied Humanities at Ba level and after completing a degree in Comparative literature she studied photography at CFD School of Photography.She is now working on a project with Salvi Danés and David Bestué with the support of Terralab.cat.
‘Where Mimosa Blooms‘
Dealing with the grief that the photographer suffered following the death of her mother, Where Mimosa Bloom takes the form of an extended farewell letter; with photography skillfully used to present a visual layout of her life and the people who played a part in it. Where Mimosa Bloom” is the result of over two years of work that Rita spent collecting, curating materials and taking photographs of places, objects and people that played a significant role in her relationship to her mother. In my opinion Rita skillfully avoided giving the impression of grief’s self-pity, isolationism, world-scorn and vanity. 
In this image taken from the book, a tiny baby bird can be seen tucked up in a person’s hand for protection, as baby birds are not able to do much by themselves are are very easily to be attacked. Which may be a representation of how Rita felt in regards to her mother, that Rita was weak and was just learning about the world and the way it works but want ready yet to be left by herself. And that her mother would always be there for her to protect her, take care of her and comfort her. But not that she is gone she is weak. In the image the bird is huddled up in a human had but normally baby birds are left in the mother nest while they wait for the mother to come back from hunting. This might suggest that she is having to relay on mother people and not her mother ‘nest’. The images looks as if was taken inside due to the dark background, but the main source of light is natural light which looks as if is coming from the left hand side of the image. The depth of field looks high as only the bird is in complete focus, this may be due to the fact that Rita wanted to be the main focus of the image, rather than the tattoo on the person wrist.
Responses to her work
