Desert flower


  • Photographer
    Viola Vagnozzi
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2015-16

Lina left Benghazi young, she barely could remember her childhood house. It was the time of WWII, and her family decided to relocate in south Italy: close to Libya, but far from the war. She grew up in a small rural village, surrounded by arts and music, in a very open minded family. It was logical that she has to became soon the most exotic attraction for the local community: the tanned painter, with raven-black hairs and sensual smile, became a sort of common dream. A black swan, a desert flower. Nowadays she preserve her feminist way and her dreams. She is fighting against cancer, without giving up to her unique way of life and her womanliness. There is still a particular flavour in her tea, in her gestures, in her flowers, in her strength. Some of her friends use to say it is due to her Libian childhood; I want to believe it's the black

Story

Desert flower
Lina left Benghazi when she was young, she barely could remember her childhood house.
It was the time of WWII, and her family decided to relocate in south Italy: close to Libya, but far from the war.
She grew up in a small rural village, surrounded by arts and music, in a very open minded family.
It was logical that she has to became soon the most exotic attraction for the local community: the tanned painter, with raven-black hairs and sensual smile, became a sort of common dream. A black swan, a desert flower.
Nowadays she preserve her feminist way and her dreams.
She is fighting against cancer, without giving up to her unique way of life and her womanliness.
There is still a particular flavour in her tea, in her gestures, in her flowers, in her strength.
Some of her friends use to say it is due to her Libian childhood; I want to believe she's the black swan that still wants to fly, teaching last lesson to all the women she has met in her life. I'm trying to learn at my best from her teachings, from her story of resilience.

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