WITH DIFFERENT EYES

MAURA MILETTA

//Maura is originally from Italy and now based in Dresden, Germany. After leaving her job in economics and finance in Italy two years ago, she decided to start from scratch and above all with something that could excite her. She chose photography. We present images from her artistic photo series “With different eyes”.

About her photographic trajectory, Maura says, “Photography has always been there in my life, but it has always been a travelling companion. I travelled and photographed strictly for my private albums. All my life I studied and worked in a field other than visual arts and creativity had to do with numbers. With time I realised that I didn’t want to spend my life doing a job I wasn’t enthusiastic about and I left everything. So I asked myself: what excites you? What makes you feel good? Photography was the answer. My choice. So I quit my job in January 2020, moved to Germany in July 2020 and started studying German and photography.”

Maura is self-taught through books, workshops (online), tutorials, and a lot of experimentation. She joined an Italian photography association where she participated in a number of portfolio reviews to get feedback on her work. She has also been doing cyanotypes, to her great satisfaction. Furthermore, she had her first photographic exhibition at the “KulTournacht” in Neumünster, Germany.

“Look at the world with different eyes.”

Maura Miletta

What draws you to the arts?

“I like the possibility of visiting ever-changing inner worlds of art in general. And for me every inner world is a journey to discover new perspectives. Sometimes I go further, other times I linger and in turn create something new with photography. Photography for me is finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. it is an escape from reality. when I take pictures I have no rules, I feel free and above all I have fun. I enjoy creating surreal things from something that is real, tangible.”

What do you like most about this conceptual photo series?

“I like the necessity to stop and look, to understand what this new present is made up of.”

Maura made her series “With different eyes” by creating double exposures directly in the camera without digital manipulation in post production. She created new interpretations of common buildings and views in German cities such as Dresden, Munich, and Berlin. “Each image is a piece of the present, decomposed and recomposed,” she explains. “It is reinventing reality, starting from reality itself. It is putting dynamism into staticity. It is giving colour to concrete. It is seeing things with new eyes. I took these photographs to create something new, something that wasn’t there before.”

Without the help of post-production programmes, Maura enjoys seeing the world differently, playing with overlapping (in the case of double exposures) and with movement (in the case of ICM photography, which she also works with). If you are interested in her beautiful cyanotypes, you can find them in her cyano gallery. You might also enjoy looking at another of her double exposure portofolios, “Living Matter” here.

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