FIORELLA BALDISSERRI
Cracking the Monolith

Collaborative work with Isabella Franceschini.

Sometimes a consonant is enough to discover a revolution and a hope. From Bar Mitzvah to Bat Mitzvah there is only one R that becomes a T, but what happens in Bologna IT in 2021, is something much more powerful: it is the access to adulthood of young girls from Jewish families belonging to the reform movement. It is them who read the Torah in a religious context that for four centuries has pursued a possible change. Inclusion and preservation of tradition.

The scenes of this quiet Bolognese jewish liturgy speak instead, have a voice. Feminine and plural. The voice is the centre of redemption. Voice is integration. It is equality.

And so it is. The voice that drags the Bolognese reformist community is the voice of a progressive Sephardic Jewish mother who wants equality in front of God and men for her children, through one of the oldest and most important moments of worship. And here the Bat Mitzvah in Reform Judaism becomes the future and hope for Noa, the daughter, who carries the sac

Author
Fiorella Baldisserri, with a classical education background and a passion for art in all its forms, is a freelance photographer based in Bologna. Since 2016, she has attended courses on the history of photography and completed a one-year masterclass in photojournalism in Rome. She has been published in various national and international magazines: L'Inkiesta, Il Reportage, Stern, Eltern, Photovogue, Famiglia Cristiana, Corriere, Elle, Erodoto108, Il Fotografo, SDN, ND, MC Magazine, Witness Journal, Eye of Photography, Repubblica, Il Resto del Carlino. She has exhibited her work in Olbia, Bologna, Rome, Lodi, Trieste, Palermo, Barcelona, Tbilisi, Sofia, and Tokyo Casale Monferrato . One of her projects was included in Cortona On The Move - The Covid-19 Visual Project. Since 2017, she has received several awards in international competitions: Julia Margaret Cameron, BIFA, Fotografia Etica, TIFA, PX3, IPA, Phodar Biennale, Kolga, MIFA, Musa Fotografia, Roma Fotografia, ASA Project, ND Awards, Annual Ph.A, Belfast Ph, Refocus, Closer, Bresciani Visual Art, Belfast Ph.A.She currently exhibits a long term project “ Cinema on the Road “at the Biennial photography MonFest in Casale Monferrato (AL).
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