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Patrizia Casamirra was born in Rome, Italy . She started her career as a photographer in the fashion world, advertising, music and show business. She later moved onto portraits and social documentaries. Her report and portraits have been published by major Italian Publishing Houses, such as Rizzoli and Mondadori, in their weekly and monthly magazines. Her work has also been published in English magazines.
She has carried out research projects in cooperation with Amnesty International and other Human Rights Organizations. These projects were published in her book “Women in Wartime”. They were also the subject of various exhibitions in Italy, Holland, Germany, Spain , England, USA and Japan.

Her work as a photographer and her tireless will to get to know different places and people drove her around the world. Her passion for art, architecture and archeology has led her to explore different forms of artistic expression.

“My goal is to be able to help women express their inner strength, beauty and passion by creating original pieces inspired by the wonder of the Mediterranean seas.”
Patrizia Casamirra

By experimenting in painting and sculpture, she has come to create jewels, which are made of silver, her favourite metal, and bronze, using the lost–wax casting process.
She followed a course in Crystal Healing and Gemmology and has invested that knowledge in her jewellery creation.
Jewellery making has become her profession and her jewels are sold in various Italian cities and abroad.
During her extensive travelling, she has developed a wide knowledge of different cultures and styles but her main source of inspiration lies in the Mediterranean area.

Born in Rome she starts working with fashion (mostly in Japan), advertising, music and show business later switching to portraiture and photo journalistic essays. She has numerous projects and portraits published by weekly and monthly publications of the Rizzoli and Mondadori groups and by British magazines. In 2000 her work Water is published by the British Journal of Photography and a selection of images was chosen by Bibliotheque Nationale Paris. In 2002 Mater-Materia-Natura has been screened to Photo Espana. In 2004 and 2006 she participates to Fotofest in Houston,Texas and to the Festival de la Luz 04 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She collaborates with various magazines: Io Donna, Marie Claire Italy, Marie Claire UK, Marie Claire U.S.A., Marie Claire Greece, Marie Claire Germany, Marie Claire Taiwan, Max, Carnet, Internazionale, Gambero Rosso, A Tavola, Viaggi e Sapori, Gente Viaggi, Gulliver, Panorama, D Repubblica.

In 2009 works with The L.A.F. Project in Czech Republic.
In 2010 collaborates with Amnesty International in a new project to combat violence against women.
In 2011 works with Rwanda Project Onlus in Rwanda.
In 2013 works with “Abitare”
In 2014 Works with “Chatelàine” Canada
In 2020 Works with Gambero Rosso
In 2021 Works with Gambero Rosso
In 2022 Works with Gambero Rosso, Premio Minerva Campidoglio, Rome, Italy


EXHIBITIONS
Solo
Her show Women in Wartime is exhibited in 2007 Amsterdam, Holland
in 2009 Arezzo, Italy and In 2010 Carrara, Italy.
2010 Women in Wartime – Carrara, Italy
2009 Women in Wartime – CIFA Bibbiena, Arezzo, Italy
2007 Women in Wartime – Melkweg Gallery Amsterdam, Holland
2000 Behind Glass – Online show @ Hofer-Photo.com-England
1997 Tango and Patagonia – Argentinian Embassy, Rome, Italy
1992 Facce d’Avanzi – Portraits of the TV shows characters – Rome, Italy
1990 Calendar Nudes – Tokyo – Osaka, Japan
Groups
2010 Io mi vedo così – Selfportraits, CIFA Bibbiena, Arezzo, Italia
2010 Traces . Photographersnetwork, Siegen, Germania
2009 Traces- Maximum Dimension 10×12 cm
Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, Rome, Italy
2007 Women in Wartime
Photographers Network, Siegen, Germany
Human Rights Watch, Los Angeles, California
2004 Tango
Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 Mater-Materia-Natura
Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, Rome, Italy
PhotoEspana 02 Madrid, Spain
1998 Istituto Europeo di Fotografia, Rome, Italy
1989 Istituto Superiore di Fotografia, Rome, Italy
1987 Galleria Ferro di cavallo, Rome, Italy

COLLECTIONS
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France

BOOKS
Women in Wartime – Witnesses of Love and War
Monografie Fiaf-Scentia Ars lumen Publishing

1946-2006 – Eyewitness Stories
60 years from the achievement of the right to vote for Italian women
House of Commons – Leonardo International Publishing