The Photographer Never Turns a Blind Eye

Authors

• Ivana Barbarito

  Ivana Barbarito, curious, observer of reality, passionate about hand drawing, researcher of the poetry of everyday life, architect, photographer. She was born and studied in Bari. The landscape and the yellow light of the South still influence her way of looking at the world. Since the beginning of her architectural studies, she has been interested in photography as a tool for observing and analysing reality. She has attended different workshops with Italian photographers – Gianni Berengo Gardin, Guido Guidi, Giovanni Chiaramonte – to deepen her reflection on the representation of architecture and the natural and human landscape.
  In 2003, she took part, with Alessandra Chemollo, in the photographic campaign on the complete works of Fernando Távora and Eduardo Souto de Moura in view of the relevant monographs published by Electa and edited by Antonio Esposito and Giovanni Leoni. From this experience she began to collaborate, as a photographer, with several architecture magazines (Casabella, D’A, Domus, Architectura and Vida) and at the same time developed personal research on her vision of landscape.
  In 2006, in Venice, she collaborated on FSE (European Social Fund) photography courses at the IUAV on the theme “La visione. La fotografia tra percezione e rappresentazione’ (Photography between perception and representation). After moving to Paris, she tackled small-scale projects in Italy and France, from their spatial organisation to the design and realisation of custom-made furniture.
  In 2011, with Benjamin Bancel, he set up the BarbaritoBancel studio where different life paths and complementary outlooks are united by the common desire to renew with each project the pleasure for architecture, for the reflection of spaces designed by light, for design, teamwork, meeting with clients and craftsmen, experimenting with new techniques and materials. A continuous transformation in search of its own balance between rigour, imagination, sensitivity, method, discussion, listening – and many designs.