https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/women-of-kashi daily 0.75 2021-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446289756137-SD0GHOWT7TW5ZN52INJL/AD_WK_01.jpg Women of Kashi Varanasi, Kashi, City of Light. Home to many elderly Hindu migrants that come to the city with the hope that when they die their bodies will be cremated on the banks of the river Ganga and when their ashes merge with the muddied water they will be closer to receiving 'moksha', liberation from the cycle of reincarnation. In the past in India, the loss of a husband stigmatized a bereaved wife. Widowed women were not welcome to participate in religious ceremonies, considered a bad omen; they were treated as untouchables and often cast away from their communities. This adopted belief common to Hindus in India is also predominant in Nepal and Bangladesh, with many widows from the neighbouring countries traveling far from their homelands closer to the Hindu holy cities. Ostracised from their families, their culture and society, many women were left to fend for themselves living in extreme poverty. Child marriage, a common tradition meant child brides were isolated at a young age, unable to remarry and left without resources and family. Many women that I met in Varanasi had been widowed at a young age, as young as 10, abandoned from all they had known, alienated and alone they made their way to Varanasi to live an ascetic life. Some eventually found shelter in the ashrams strewn throughout the city whilst others were forced to live on the streets and around the Ghats. I wanted to create a project that portrayed these women in the light that I saw them, surrounded by their daily rituals, specifically moments of prayer where I sensed they found some peace. An instant lifted from the reality of the present, to show a little of the strength that I witnessed helped them to go forward from day to day. This story, which I began in 2013, is a small glimpse of a larger long-term project following the daily realities of women in India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446289756137-SD0GHOWT7TW5ZN52INJL/AD_WK_01.jpg Women of Kashi Varanasi, Kashi, City of Light. Home to many elderly Hindu migrants that come to the city with the hope that when they die their bodies will be cremated on the banks of the river Ganga and when their ashes merge with the muddied water they will be closer to receiving 'moksha', liberation from the cycle of reincarnation. In the past in India, the loss of a husband stigmatized a bereaved wife. Widowed women were not welcome to participate in religious ceremonies, considered a bad omen; they were treated as untouchables and often cast away from their communities. This adopted belief common to Hindus in India is also predominant in Nepal and Bangladesh, with many widows from the neighbouring countries traveling far from their homelands closer to the Hindu holy cities. Ostracised from their families, their culture and society, many women were left to fend for themselves living in extreme poverty. Child marriage, a common tradition meant child brides were isolated at a young age, unable to remarry and left without resources and family. Many women that I met in Varanasi had been widowed at a young age, as young as 10, abandoned from all they had known, alienated and alone they made their way to Varanasi to live an ascetic life. Some eventually found shelter in the ashrams strewn throughout the city whilst others were forced to live on the streets and around the Ghats. I wanted to create a project that portrayed these women in the light that I saw them, surrounded by their daily rituals, specifically moments of prayer where I sensed they found some peace. An instant lifted from the reality of the present, to show a little of the strength that I witnessed helped them to go forward from day to day. This story, which I began in 2013, is a small glimpse of a larger long-term project following the daily realities of women in India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491231687381-NUHWMNTHYO9X1ZMHOHJ2/WomenofKashi_AD_01.jpg Women of Kashi In the past in India, the loss of a husband stigmatised a bereaved wife. Widowed women were treated as untouchables and often cast away from their communities. This adopted belief in the Hindu community is also predominant in Nepal and Bangladesh. Many widows seek shelter in Hindu holy cities such as Varanasi, also known as Benares, Kashi, the City of Light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491230565849-ZY74FS5OAAE72OALXR9S/WomenofKashi_AD_02.jpg Women of Kashi A woman rings a temple bell during evening Aarti. Bell ringing has an important significance during Aarti to welcome the gods into the idol so that devotees may be able to see his or her holy image in the ritualistic light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415782526333-O7C7UKNSUOMLW6PYZ7JA/Ceiba1_select_D%27Addario.jpg Women of Kashi This image is a preview from an upcoming small book project focused on women in Indian society. This section focuses specifically on widowed women who ostracized by family and society and often by choice, come to the cities of Varanasi and Vrindavan to live an almost completely ascetic life. Some of the women I spent time with were widowed as young as ten years old. Around the 11th century based on Vedic interpretations, a role assigned to Brahmin males in Indian society together with the current head of state, 'Sati' the religious act of a woman immolating herself, burning herself alive on the flames of her husband's funeral pyre was commonly practiced throughout India. A woman did this, or was coerced into the act of Sati to show her utmost faith to her husband and receive god-like status but also to free herself from a life of social ambiguity, sexual violence and poverty. Widowed women in India were believed to be bad luck; they were not welcome in certain religious ceremonies and weddings and were treated as untouchables. Despite a 150-year-old ban, isolated cases of Sati are still reported. The status of widowed women is changing slowly in contemporary Indian society but the majority still live below the poverty line, on the streets or in ashrams. My project is focused on the incredible sense of faith and strength that these women have, to deal with their role in society. The series is a part of a larger continuing project in Greater India focusing on myth and identity and the reality for widowed women living in the Indian cities of Varanasi and Vrindavan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491230613989-I01GJSNF60UH0OKHG870/WomenofKashi_AD_03.jpg Women of Kashi During evening Aarti after a period of prayer ceremonial fire is passed around to allow devotees to raise downturned hands to the flames to receive the flame's power, which they then press to their eyes and head, a purification and a blessing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491230606630-9MX66SRWFDNS28I0N5GQ/WomenofKashi_AD_04.jpg Women of Kashi Women and children attend evening Aarti performed by young Brahmin priests. The Aarti ceremony, it has been said, descends from ancient Vedic fire rituals, often referred to as a ceremony of light, flames of fire used in the ritual are reportedly infused with the deities’ energy love and blessings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491565224043-TPD8P5I3R1ZF4X10KW2T/Women_of_Kashi_AD_06.jpg Women of Kashi Lord Shiva and consort Goddess Parvati with their son Lord Ganesh. According to ancient Hindu beliefs, Lord Shiva founded the city of Varanasi, also known as Kashi, Benares or the City of Light; one of the oldest living cities in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491230670613-M4FUN2GS498I0YNF32ER/WomenofKashi_AD_05.jpg Women of Kashi Women gather for evening prayer on a popular Varanasi Ghat by the River Ganga, in Uttar Pradesh India.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491230670290-YL745CYW3G2MFMJ4QZBU/WomenofKashi_AD_06.jpg Women of Kashi A woman silently prays while she waits for evening Aarti to begin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1445783236610-PDS5YNGJCQM80TXT8BKI/AD_WK_00001.jpg Women of Kashi An antique print from a book about the River Ganga, the Goddess Ganga is the female personification of the sacred river. The river is often depicted streaming from the hair of Lord Shiva, legend states he broke her fall to Earth by letting her flow down in small streams from his hair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491230714133-A1LMV2ZP4PL9CJV92GBM/WomenofKashi_AD_07.jpg Women of Kashi A devotee meditates in front of a small temple near Assi Ghat a cremation site overlooking the Ganga River. Thousands of devotees and pilgrims flock continuously to the holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491230709777-2NLT97VE1APB0P1QK6LY/WomenofKashi_AD_08.jpg Women of Kashi A silent moment of prayer after evening Aarti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1420746671854-WHCGA49Y6CH2Z0C1NU5O/D%27ADDARIO_AMA_WK_08.jpg Women of Kashi A woman leaves the temple to return to the ashram after evening Aarti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1445764634136-6U5B02WLYJEK2ASBJZ2P/AD_WK_0021.jpg Women of Kashi An antique print of a Sanskrit blessing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446291065627-NJ164QODKIOMZ6PN4ZPD/AD_WK_MB_01.jpg Women of Kashi Morning bathers washing in the sacred Ganga River in Varanasi Uttar Pradesh, India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1445783571182-KG76MNJQ1XSQD02Z0CBA/AD_WK_HG.jpg Women of Kashi Hindu gods and gurus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1445737236245-R17SLFEGUJ2YX55M6GO4/AD_WK_00011.jpg Women of Kashi Pre-wedding celebrations weave through the streets of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh India. Belief in taboos meant that widowed women were not permitted to attend wedding ceremonies as their presence was thought to be unlucky for the new couple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446293107521-MLJQVEJZ1CVPXENB6LLE/AD_WK_020.jpg Women of Kashi Shadows of cows, two of many that populate the Varanasi streets and Ghats, on the way to the women’s ashram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491491840346-QFRER4LH9WEQRFZPWTWH/WK_N_01.jpg Women of Kashi Women relax together and watch television in the ashram after evening Aarti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446298603613-OVBK9Z8KOK12OMWPL6TS/AD_WK_N2.jpg Women of Kashi A woman walks upstairs to a communal area from her sleeping quarter in the ashram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1420746715439-UFFTWCF2T6L5J5KID5EU/D%27ADDARIO_AMA_WK_09.jpg Women of Kashi Widows from the Meera Sahabhhagini Ashram celebrate the Holi Festival in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India. Over the past years they have been encouraged to engage in celebrations by social organisations that are attempting to raise their status in contemporary Indian society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446641902804-8FVA96P1VYNN80C1R9DY/AD_WK_008.jpg Women of Kashi A textile piece from an Indian wedding sari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1491491437058-TL5NONOISGQC253UQ6Z2/WK_N_02.jpg Women of Kashi Manikarnika Ghat, one of the oldest and most sacred cremation sites in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh India https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/yolanda daily 0.75 2020-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784117559-JTJ9M1WRTLF1UPXOKD96/DAddario_Coron_OS_01.jpg Yolanda In Janaury 2014 I traveled to Coron in Northern Palawan to document the damage caused by Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda). I worked with independent local and national partners for aid distribution together with the Tagbanua community, the Traditional Custodians of Coron Island, who sought to reach and assist remote communities. across the island group. These isolated families had not received any form of support since Haiyan's landfall in November of 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784117559-JTJ9M1WRTLF1UPXOKD96/DAddario_Coron_OS_01.jpg Yolanda In Janaury 2014 I traveled to Coron in Northern Palawan to document the damage caused by Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda). I worked with independent local and national partners for aid distribution together with the Tagbanua community, the Traditional Custodians of Coron Island, who sought to reach and assist remote communities. across the island group. These isolated families had not received any form of support since Haiyan's landfall in November of 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784077046-VVVXTMOH4TCSP2HDU03Q/DAddario_Coron_OS_02.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784171481-Y81RKKPSWV9OELTJRV3R/DAddario_Coron_OS_03.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784155571-EUIL1E9E2FSYIN2U50WF/DAddario_Coron_OS_04.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784206779-WJGVZC9N6DMWXQDYV2UE/DAddario_Coron_OS_05.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784228924-JTY3Q93SG3MY86I03N58/DAddario_Coron_OS_06.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784328898-3PG73JZAWXT5XG771QNZ/DAddario_Coron_OS_07.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784280507-DX8Z1Y9XYO1UVUVV4ZIY/DAddario_Coron_OS_08.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784336997-XWOOX90Q9RE31N8O8SHQ/DAddario_Coron_OS_09.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784475724-IGBC430Q9ER9UOSKK8KZ/DAddario_Coron_OS_10.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784379128-8UAMLI1AR9NYGGNC5FRL/DAddario_Coron_OS_11.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784449956-MMACXYVM1NZ1R6MKNOOW/DAddario_Coron_OS_12.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784511142-ORM079ESVR45RCIZ4W8W/DAddario_Coron_OS_13.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784611120-ROA8JC6L45IWYCOD2W7J/DAddario_Coron_OS_15.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784622863-JZA6J88U00HB7CR8RMCB/DAddario_Coron_OS_16.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784652749-RXHBEVIIETO334CY2J09/DAddario_Coron_OS_18.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784688511-P5REXZQJ0DZDIQ2DY8LH/DAddario_Coron_OS_19.jpg Yolanda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1415784729083-INWSCMNJDGM8D9XBD06Q/DAddario_Coron_OS_20.jpg Yolanda https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/facing-displacement daily 0.75 2022-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446122059104-Z63IL2MDH8EEK0GP88UA/Tacloban_N8_1_AD.jpg Facing Displacement Children play in the ruins of a building in the tent village near San Jose airport, Tacloban City, Leyte in the Philippines on November 8, 2014 one year after the destruction of the landfall of Typhoon Haiyan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446122059104-Z63IL2MDH8EEK0GP88UA/Tacloban_N8_1_AD.jpg Facing Displacement Children play in the ruins of a building in the tent village near San Jose airport, Tacloban City, Leyte in the Philippines on November 8, 2014 one year after the destruction of the landfall of Typhoon Haiyan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121711440-E5CCUHTQUHAZ25NKAP3N/DAddario_Coron_OS_02.jpg Facing Displacement A house ripped in half by Typhoon Haiyan in the Coron Island group, Northern Palawan in the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121737100-K3DCES8U3MRDTAP48YNP/DAddario_Coron_OS_01.jpg Facing Displacement Coron Island, Northern Palawan in the Philippines. The ancestral domain of the Tagbanua people. Currently the Tagbanua of Coron Island have ancestral claim not only on the territory of Coron Island but also in the surrounding waters, rich in biodiversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121794827-7ZML01TPEDFJCQIJ3YX6/DAddario_Coron_OS_13.jpg Facing Displacement The main jetty on Coron Island in Northern Palawan, the Philippines destroyed by the storm surge from Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446473444567-YO3AE73Q6Z5RMAMAI1IJ/AD_AM_006b.jpg Facing Displacement Children play in the waters around the floating village in an unexpected midday rainfall in Agusan Marsh in Mindanao, the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446376747289-VPSL341BUC423XJ5T3PI/AD_AM_003.jpg Facing Displacement A woman from the Monobo community of Agusan Marsh washes the family dishes outside her home at sunset in the floating village. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446302500644-B8EGZ6CUEL2TGZLYKHU2/AD_Monobo_AM_01.jpg Facing Displacement A young Monobo boy guides his canoe through an unexpected rainfall in a community floating village in the middle of Agusan Marsh, Mindanao in the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121840830-R2VX3EMK006L7ER7G69C/AD_Coron_2.jpg Facing Displacement A Tagbanua elder walks home after meeting with aid groups and the Coron Island committee helping to distribute aid to indigenous communities cut off from help after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446380933938-A8TPAN58F0QZKADH03CM/AD_AM_004.jpg Facing Displacement A woman and child sit on the front step of their floating home in the floating village in Agusan Marsh in Mindanao, the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121741770-WW1UL618T7O8LXWYIGLV/DAddario_Coron_OS_03.jpg Facing Displacement An Indigenous migrant from Culion living on Busuanga Island in Northern Palawan stands in front of a building leveled by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121768972-X2YB6SMW0V4C2JSLC9JL/DAddario_Coron_OS_04.jpg Facing Displacement A migrant from Culio living on Busuanga Island in Northern Palawan stands in front of her house that was destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446374137339-NTV0L1NKW55AA29BWAUH/AD_AM_002.jpg Facing Displacement The sun sets in the Monobo floating village in Agusan Marsh in Mindanao, the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121769032-MBPACD59AQ509YVA74SR/DAddario_Coron_OS_05.jpg Facing Displacement A migrant living on Busuanga Island in Northern Palawan, the Philippines stands in front of his house that was partially destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, he and other temporary residents living on the island had received no aid or assistance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121821204-LA8LIWNNVKYDVZHQKZOS/DAddario_Coron_OS_08.jpg Facing Displacement A young Tagnbanua boy looks out at Kayangan Lake on Coron Island, a popular tourist destination in Northern Palawan. The Tagbanua have ancestral domain rights on Coron and surrounding waters but they are at risk of development and pressure from the government who wish to profit from the popular tourist site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446122135446-HQRE8VPO5WHUETIZQ0DJ/AD_T_N_TC3.jpg Facing Displacement Children play by the water, on a wall torn apart by Typhoon Haiyan in the tent city near San Jose airport, Tacloban Leyte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121800420-01Q4TBKFST3ECHZ1Z7AA/DAddario_Coron_OS_20.jpg Facing Displacement Children play in a the skeleton of a boat wrecked by the storm surge that passed by Busuanga Island in Northern Palawan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446121871242-1ZQS4NW78N3GU90CU23I/436A5720.jpg Facing Displacement A family in the Tula-Tula community sit together in the light of a battery powered lamp and oil lamp outside their family home. In 2011 they were fighting against mining explorations in the area. Currently their area is safe but the issue of mining remains a major threat to their homelands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446122077626-IA7QNSB1CWT8J4BHG8D4/TB_B_N6.jpg Facing Displacement People wait patiently in a traffic jam whilst construction continues on the bridge between Tacloban City and the San Jose airport, one year after Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1446122026280-YEPZHE21SDYQITM1RUFJ/AD_T_P_1.jpg Facing Displacement A man lights candles for loved ones lost on the one year anniversary of the landfall of Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Leyte, the Philippines. https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/farewell-angelina daily 0.75 2020-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550860103376-7XY3G16DQ2M2X9BGKKR4/AD_FA_w_02b.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550860103376-7XY3G16DQ2M2X9BGKKR4/AD_FA_w_02b.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550829038092-TUD1RUSSKXA08HVMKJIM/AD_FA_w_4.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550830514235-X4EGV79DWG3DIED1263E/AD_FA_w1_tb.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593523599108-E467QNJGLZJ8RM04Y4JD/AD_FA_LM3.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550859952139-44PS43JLKQ64U1XAI6W5/AD_FA_w_044z.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593523777701-IH5P7GM5V594K10PMGYX/AD_FA_LM5.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593523779226-PCQ9Y9CUGF6T09FBWQO0/AD_FA_LM6.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550837345425-1AKH1WLEJBZ3WLPN4AW2/AD_FA_w_6.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550854941635-XUF05ASALBL50OS42WN4/AD_FA_w_06.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1552368296259-GNTDJ99BOWLIWEH6VH7E/AD_FA_E_06.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550854713199-EXB5R83YRN4U9NRYJ85P/AD_FA_012.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550856020067-AMF6DWD4CWTW1QH2R9AX/AD_FA_wtb.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550864329548-NMFTSW5N8BWU2UH8B1NA/AD_FA_wt4.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550854301394-MQG72UYMVV7DFTD79XIS/AD_FA_E_099.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550829798570-EIAE4U421MGW59RU8DAZ/AD_FA_w1_tb.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550816455433-MKU1QZ5N8BVKA4980FMV/AD_FA_w1_.jpg Farewell Angelina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550826249172-GOG0F0C3JDNMZHMCJQKT/AD_FA_w2.jpg Farewell Angelina https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/exhibitions daily 0.75 2020-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1581257566604-4E4RKDHL94S8VCGHM49T/3_AD_DITR_E_436A2588.jpg Installations Year: 2019 Location: Ex Cavallerizza Lucca, Italy Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light, exhibition, 2019 Photoboox Award at Photolux Festival International Biennale of Photography. Medium: Photomedia, sound, retro projected single channel video through fabric panels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1581257566604-4E4RKDHL94S8VCGHM49T/3_AD_DITR_E_436A2588.jpg Installations Year: 2019 Location: Ex Cavallerizza Lucca, Italy Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light, exhibition, 2019 Photoboox Award at Photolux Festival International Biennale of Photography. Medium: Photomedia, sound, retro projected single channel video through fabric panels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1581257558287-U1MMXLJCLUS3OG395K1D/2_AD_DITR_E_436A2477b.jpg Installations Year: 2019 Location: Ex Cavallerizza Lucca, Italy Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light, exhibition, 2019 Photoboox Award at Photolux Festival International Biennale of Photography. Medium: Photomedia, sound, retro projected single channel video with sound through fabric panels, artist’s book and book making documentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1581256381541-3LT0WIO4J92X3Y6QSO6D/AD_DITR_Exhibition436A2618c.jpg Installations Year: 2019 Location: Ex Cavallerizza Lucca, Italy Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light, exhibition, 2019 Photoboox Award at Photolux Festival International Biennale of Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1581256990022-KYDTJNRERZ0YYOM5G6CD/AD_DITR_Exhibition436A2520.jpg Installations Year: 2019 Location: Ex Cavallerizza Lucca, Italy Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light, exhibition, 2019 Photoboox Award at Photolux Festival International Biennale of Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550861474354-AI913XDUNHRUJ90741U1/AM_FA_L1000116.jpg Installations Year: 2018 - 2019 Location: Art Gallery of Ballarat Farewell Angelina installation space, part of group exhibition, Echoes Medium: Photomedia, sound, large format single channel video, artist’s bookwork. Image: Alessandro Marsina 2018 Exhibition supported by Pholpo, The Harold and Gwenneth Harris Fellowship for the Medical Humanities and HIgh Res Digital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1551982123218-KMR7WVRB9D5U94EH4J24/AD_436A5511.jpg Installations Year: 2018 - 2019 Location: Art Gallery of Ballarat Farewell Angelina installation space, part of group exhibition, Echoes Medium: Photomedia, sound, large format single channel video, artist’s bookwork, archival pigment prints.. Exhibition supported by Pholpo, The Harold and Gwenneth Harris Fellowship for the Medical Humanities and HIgh Res Digital. wship for the Medical Humanities and HIgh Res Digital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1550862459139-68WL0ZHE0YQ83CMKS1CX/FA_ArtGalleryofBallarat2018.jpg Installations Year: 2018 - 2019 Location: Art Gallery of Ballarat Farewell Angelina installation space, part of group exhibition, Echoes Medium: Photomedia, sound, large format single channel video, artist’s bookwork, archival pigment prints.. Exhibition supported by Pholpo, The Harold and Gwenneth Harris Fellowship for the Medical Humanities and HIgh Res Digital. https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/deep-in-their-roots-all-flowers-keep-the-light daily 0.75 2020-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593522802520-H4Z7G6Q9IUFUGETYJC2N/AD_FA_3_1.jpg Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593522802520-H4Z7G6Q9IUFUGETYJC2N/AD_FA_3_1.jpg Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593522800393-OBDUX8UJK0TEVGD9EI4N/AD_FA_3_2d.jpg Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593523067360-IPW06KMRINBCX9Q6JNM0/AD_FA_4.jpg Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593523238987-PIFTX7A2LKPBMM0JOOSI/AD_FA_5.jpg Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1593523372292-5XA22DNGK8OZVNROO4ZU/AD_FA_6.jpg Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/mice-plague-australia daily 0.75 2021-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623226829408-6N9W526YNLI37VQIAWLG/AD_OZMice_62_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia - Plague of Mice in Australia Overruns Farms, Shops and Bedrooms The New York Times - Yan Zhuang & Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario For half a year, rodents have been chewing their way around the country’s eastern grain belt, leaving economic and psychological scars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623226829408-6N9W526YNLI37VQIAWLG/AD_OZMice_62_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia - Plague of Mice in Australia Overruns Farms, Shops and Bedrooms The New York Times - Yan Zhuang & Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario For half a year, rodents have been chewing their way around the country’s eastern grain belt, leaving economic and psychological scars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227843682-8C1PDJNHNEO60FVHR05L/AD_OZMice_52_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia A blue tarp covering wheat grain infested with mice at the Fragar family’s farm seven hours west of Sydney, Australia. Farmers throughout the region are seeing their stocks of grains being eaten by mice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227869435-NWC6HSHK82PN66R4SEAC/AD_OZMice_67_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia Annalise Klante playing near an empty grain silo on the Klante farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227830339-EC6INLH081QMU4NQUNN4/AD_OZMice_30_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia Mice in a grain silo on the Fragar farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227852450-YEOQO5MAS06MQT55V8RL/AD_OZMice_60_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia Terry Klante, center, discussing his strategies for getting rid of mice with George Greig, left, another local farmer. Australia suffers a mouse plague every decade or so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227869386-9IGKWGIGA1ZN2440AJUW/AD_OZMice_72_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia Mr. Greig’s dachshund hunting for mice under a tarp on the Greig farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227879557-OPR26TO6HMPVMHA3W887/AD_OZMice_153_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia A dance class in Tottenham, a source of fun for young people who have been dealing with the effects of a drought, the pandemic and the mouse plague. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227829358-LHU2EGF3D6KD062EGCOP/AD_OZMice_01_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia Ploughed fields outside Tottenham. Changes to farming practices have created more sources of food and shelter for mice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227878091-S0IMPFVEZRO6F2OFAB86/AD_OzMiceE_30256368A_01.jpg Mice Plague Australia Matt Randall’s sons, Austin and Riley, playing on a tractor at their farm. The Randalls have used baiting and burning to keep the mice out of their fields, but the rodents have slipped into their home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623227841306-KSEZQC3WE7TSUMH2EBJA/AD_OZMice_33_30256368A.jpg Mice Plague Australia Hay piles infested with mice on the Fragar farm. https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/faraway-nearby daily 0.75 2021-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772014313-DKYKP14UL25AXOJK8MPL/AD_Faraway_Nearby_01.jpg Faraway, Nearby During Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season, thick smoke covered Sydney for months. We sought refuge indoors, but smoke followed through cracks. As the fires eased and the smoke dissipated, once again we were forced inside and into isolation by COVID19. The pandemic meant a new fracture, another destabilising moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772014313-DKYKP14UL25AXOJK8MPL/AD_Faraway_Nearby_01.jpg Faraway, Nearby During Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season, thick smoke covered Sydney for months. We sought refuge indoors, but smoke followed through cracks. As the fires eased and the smoke dissipated, once again we were forced inside and into isolation by COVID19. The pandemic meant a new fracture, another destabilising moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772013905-A4N6GOQ2RLU7VCKOFX88/AD_Faraway_Nearby_02.jpg Faraway, Nearby The country, still dealing with the effects of the fires, had no time to collectively mourn the loss, to contemplate the trauma. I captured details of nature that expressed the psychological impact of the time. An attempt to document, record and witness, but also evoke invisible trails of memory, emotion and place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772025998-PQD3GKYCU8VDX51KV73H/AD_Faraway_Nearby_03.jpg Faraway, Nearby In a time, kept apart and alienated from each other, portraits allow a moment of close proximity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772031981-EWQF5YML6YOA60BW2EOS/AD_Faraway_Nearby_04.jpg Faraway, Nearby Nature plays an important role as a catalyst by which we can ‘place ourselves,’ to give us, as Rebecca Solhnit states, ‘continuity, something to return to, and offer a familiarity that allows some portion of our lives to remain connected and coherent...’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772037068-Y62WR4NB2GDDJ2I7D1EG/AD_Faraway_Nearby_05.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772044103-ESGJ5SA6AMQNRW0KTFEW/AD_Faraway_Nearby_06.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772044528-LAX5JYOO21A2I7UHASN9/AD_Faraway_Nearby_07.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772056150-M6SR22KSCYFLN8PNWNSF/AD_Faraway_Nearby_08.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772063924-HZ0ZXCDSQH2EJHBE0F5Y/AD_Faraway_Nearby_09.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772072264-WUFO7M58EMZW7KOPV6DN/AD_Faraway_Nearby_10.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772070859-XS1LGF8XTVWFGC55IOAF/AD_Faraway_Nearby_11.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772086071-IBIJCFH6OCX6XOZY31R5/AD_Faraway_Nearby_12.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772086920-CFEDT9XY4AKDBZD8HGCS/AD_Faraway_Nearby_13.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772096793-ZBW98Q6LGMJ1TNBBKQN9/AD_Faraway_Nearby_14.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1634772102074-C908GHL1EH2RSJISP00B/AD_Faraway_Nearby_15.jpg Faraway, Nearby https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/f3e9eae3-0312-4860-8e25-69f3b23493c3/AD_Portrait.jpg About - Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario is an Italian-Australian photographic artist, writer and book maker exploring forms of storytelling combining documentary modes with photographic art practice. Her work revolves around the investigation and resurrection of memory and our emotional connection to place. Anna has received various nominations and awards for her work, specifically for her book projects such as the 2019 Photolux Photoboox Award for her artist’s book project, Farewell Angelina, that led to the publication of her second bookwork, Deep in their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light with Italian publisher ceiba Editions. She holds a MFA in Fine Art, Sydney College of the Arts, and is currently undertaking a PhD Candidature at Monash University in Fine Art. Drawing from family and public archives using photography, montage, collage, thread work and counter-mapping in book work, Anna is currently working on a long form expanded documentary project as a means to remember differently, rework and reimagine belonging and nonbelonging on unneeded land. https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/motion daily 0.75 2019-02-22 https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/artistsbooks daily 0.75 2022-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1551252720045-O3MOPKRPCC6T6GVEML2U/AD_FA_w_02b.jpg Artist's Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1615019733234-HNP7MCZ0J8LF87XCBARM/1_AD_DITR_436A3104.jpg Artist's Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1580819908372-WFM6FUH5WXBL7V6J0L10/2_AD_DITR_436A3002.jpg Artist's Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1546353097625-JTA7S4XE3ADEFKTS6FR4/AD_FA_4_436A2266.jpg Artist's Books https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/home daily 1.0 2025-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1577364555330-NBT9VKYYSCST2GRCVCPJ/AD_FA_3305.jpg Home | Anna Maria Antoinette D'Addario https://www.annamariaantoinette.com/tearsheets daily 0.75 2021-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623228642775-HIJC49KGXVIA7SVIJ6PR/MicePlagueAustralia-c.jpg Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623230024891-OZUU6MP7DH9YU0K67J6I/BP.jpg Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623229949192-C3ORAYF4KU53MBTU7UBS/BP_4.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623230124783-106HRA71KOQUYOGVDQQJ/OZ+MICE+tearsheet+4.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623229736795-WP2PE1HJL18AV950WDVB/BP_1.jpg Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623230375017-OFP1157OYI1CF24B18J2/Oz_childcare+tearsheet+%282%29.jpg Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623229856253-QB2C9ZTB278EE0KHWI0Q/BP_2.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623229907472-EI1KIWLORH605BPK5M2D/BP_3.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5116798ae4b0c59967a8bb87/1623229073043-XJA1SWVSLFCCRQDEEW39/OZ+MICE+tearsheet.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.