2016 Sony World Photography Awards - 2nd Place, Staged, Professional Competition
Born in Rome. After graduating from the Scuola Romana di Fotografia in 2004, she came into photography first working as an assistant for Paolo Pellegrin. Over the years she has specialized in photo post-production collaborating with several internationally renowned photographers; then she began her personal projects. Cristina is remixing documentary approach to historical and social issues with research and elements of staged performance to recreate historical events and characters. In 2016 she produced Le Donne di Picasso, a series of reenacted portraits that give a voice to the suffering of eight women who had loved Pablo Picasso. For the past ten years she has been working on Exilio de dentro, a project exploring historical memory of the Spanish Civil War. She was represented by Prospekt agency in 2006-2012 and her works have been published in major international magazines like Time, Newsweek, L’Espresso, Le Monde, Marie Claire. She is recipient of Sony World Photography Award, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, PX3 and IPA among others. She is currently rappresented by Galleria del Cembalo, Palazzo Borghese, Roma.