The following portraits are Series Winner of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, 2021.

“Women in my family have always been strong figures, hard workers, feral, outspoken, pillars to the family. I became a photographer when most of the women I looked up to and grew up with were no longer in this world. I decided to honor the women of my past by honoring the women in my present. I occasionally include garments or pieces that belonged to my grandmother, great aunt, and great grandmother. This work balances past and present, desire, and memories.”

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"Citrus fruits, delicate daisies, vivid green savoy cabbages and slices of ripe, succulent melons, among many other things, form the rich imagery of Mexican photographer Daniela Constantini's latest photographic project, Still Life.

Her photographs derive much of their stylistic qualities from the still life traditions of Western painting — in particular, those developed in the 16th and 17th centuries by the likes of Dutch Golden age painters like Pieter Claesz, as well as those in the Spanish Baroque tradition of Juan Sánchez Cotán — yet the inclusion of female subjects, personal acquaintances of the photographer, adds an intimate dimension to her highly stylized images. Beyond the photographic series' root in traditional artistic conventions like the still life, Constantini attempts to convey a sense of nostalgia for her hometown of Mexico City — now residing in Bern, Switzerland, her photographs endeavor to fuse the bountiful inspiration she draws from the medieval city of her current place of residence with the poetic identity of her hometown, synthesizing past and present through the photographic medium [...] Constantini makes ample use of historical motifs, reappropriating them for the modern context in contrast with the motifs of today. The symbols are subtle, and easy to miss at first glance: the red nail polish, the cigarette, the hoop earring. The choice of clothing for her subjects suggests a repudiation of modern styles, favoring more classical silhouettes, yet their material quality betrays their origins in the contemporary..."*

*Sophie Beerens for FRESH EYES PHOTO Powered by GUP Magazine.

"...The Latinamerican and the European merge in the portraits and still lifes of the Mexican photographer and writer Daniela Constantini, who lives and works in Bern. Her photographs are reminiscent of classical Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. Constantini is a master of contrasts: the dark colors in the background give the images a depth and a touch of melancholy, but the bright colors of the fruit or clothing break with this. She captures the mood of the Golden Age with her camera, but the modernity can be recognized by the fact that mainly women are depicted, and at a second glance one discovers that they wear nail polish and earrings. The images seem meticulously staged, but the insects make it seem like a snapshot"*

*Maike Salazar Kämpf for AGAVE Magazine.