Lina Pallotta dresse un portrait personnel et intime de la communauté trans napolitaine.
Lina Pallotta's Voce 'e stommache is born out of a close collaboration with Loredana Rossi, founder and vice president of ATN – Associazione Transessuale Napoli, an NGO committed to supporting trans people and protecting their rights, health, and dignity.
The title, derived from a Neapolitan saying, signifies that self-expression and affirmation emerge not solely from the intellect but from a profound, visceral place, and this is the ethos that also inspired Pallotta to venture for the first time into the use of color photography, to capture the many facets of the search for and expression of identity. Portraits, street scenes, domestic interiors, and snapshots of everyday moments–from applying makeup to shopping and sharing drinks–Pallotta's images bear witness to a sense of trust and understanding which breaks down the barriers between artist and subject. Voce 'e stommache thus stands as a heartfelt tribute to the transformative power of friendship and self-expression, a celebration of identity and community, and a poignant act of advocacy.
Photographe documentaire née en 1955 à San Salvatore Telesino (Italie), Lina Pallotta s'est installée à New York à la fin des années 1980, où elle a obtenu un diplôme en photojournalisme et en photographie documentaire au Center of Photography. Sa volonté farouche d'explorer la différence l'a amenée à s'intéresser à la scène underground, aux sous-cultures, aux femmes mexicaines, aux outsiders, pour raconter des histoires qui ne sont habituellement pas racontées. Ses œuvres les plus connues comprennent Porpora e Valerie (2013) et BASTA – To Work and Die on the Mexican Border (1999), sur la vie des femmes mexicaines qui travaillent dans les usines frontalières. Son travail a fait l'objet d'expositions personnelles et collectives en Europe et aux États-Unis et a été publié dans divers magazines internationaux.
