We recently connected with Cristiana Motta and have shared our conversation below.

Cristiana, appreciate you joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Title: Home

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Where: Alzheimer’s Home Sanford, Florida

With the interest and more intimate relationship with Alzheimer’s, I wanted to get closer to people living the same as me, but close to me. I wanted to show and give them what I was still living with my grandmother.
I believed it was important to take the feeling that still exists within us
even with the disease and signal this to other people.
Believing that we know very little about this disease and that science struggles so much for a cure I think it’s due to the concern and time in it.
I learned that photography has great power at the beginning of the disease and can help memory in that faraway place that Alzheimer’s takes people.
I’m getting to know the families of the Home and their pains and loves, I’m receiving love from people with the disease and learning even more about it. It has been an exchange between them and my grandmother and an incredible experience that I intend to record in a book for 2023 with 4 stories that I have participated.

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This essay is a walk between the present
and the past where to understand it
it’s already confusing.
In the comings and goings from white to dark
we encounter fear, lost memory and the anxiety of belonging and not getting lost again.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Photography has been part of my routine since childhood.

I like to listen to people and move them. Show them my look and how I feel their story.
I believe the connection is important because it is a very personal work and full of feelings.
Not only about technique and equipment, this is just an obligation of a professional. And about respect for your visual baggage and interest in what you love to do.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

yes I would like to paint

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I really enjoy telling stories and working on processes.     

Contact Info:

• Website: www.crismotta.art
• Instagram: crismottaprocess and crismottaphotos
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/Crismottaphotographer
• Other: https://linktr.ee/crismotta.art?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=80673fa4-d537-45c7-8cb3-5b2c1117c7d0

Image Credits
Cris Motta