Exhibitions/AwardsPaola Favoino is an italian photographer based in Rome. She graduated in Sociology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with a thesis about Albanian immigrant workers in Italy. She also specialized in migration and refugees studies with a master’s degree. In 2012 she graduated in photojournalism in Rome. Since 2011 she has committed herself to a long-term documentary project concerning sworn virgins in Albania. To tell about their life’s stories she uses photography, audio recording and video. In 2019 this project became a book A JE BURRNESH published by Edizioni d’ottobre/Balter.
Solo 2016 A Je Burrnesh – De Chirico Art Gallery, Turin, Italy 2016 A Je Burrnesh – Rizoma – Ex Pretura, Trebisacce, Italy 2014 A Je Burrnesh – AOC F58 Galleria d’Arte, Rome, Italy 2013 A je Burrnesh – Il Punto Einaudi Library – Rome, Italy
Collective 2023 10 March – Birds are not allowed to cross the border (postcards from Kiev) – Goethe-Institut, Rome 2022 White Blossoms – Rucka Artist Residency exhibition, Latvia 2022 L’isola – Festival Castelnuovo Fotografia X ed. – Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy 2020 A Je Burrnesh – Collettivo 2.0 – Antico granaio, Roseto Capo Spulico, Italy 2018 A Je Burrnesh – Il Mostro – Tevere Art Gallery, Rome, Italy 2018 A Je Burrnesh – ENDorFINE – Tevere Art Gallery, Rome, Italy 2017 A Je Burrnesh – MIA PHOTO FAIR / THE MALL, Milano, Italy 2017 A Je Burrnesh – TAG Factory Exhibition, Tevere Art Gallery, Rome, Italy 2016 A Je Burrnesh – “Sex is confusion – Corpi, Generi, Identità” – Teatrofficina Refugio, Livorno, Italy 2015 A Je Burrnesh – Tumbleweed – Il Cantiere, Rome, Italy 2014 A Je Burrnesh – The Darkroom Project Exhibition 4 – Muro Leccese (LE), Italy 2013 A Je Burrnesh – “Festival Kalidoscopio # 1: féminité en (de) construction à travers l’Europe” – Nantes, France
Awards 2022 Athens Photo Festival – A JE BURRNESH – selected 2022 Rucka Artist Residency, Latvia- selected 2022 BlowUpPress Book Award – L’ISOLA – shortlisted 2021 Premio Marco Bastianelli – L’ISOLA – Honorable mention 2021 Copenhagen Photo Festival – A JE BURRNESH – selected for ROOM 2020 Balam N°6 Mestizx – selected 2020 PHC Capalbio Fotografia – A JE BURRNESH – Honorable mention 2020 Premio Marco Bastianelli – A JE BURRNESH – shortlisted Photographic contribution 2022 “The poetic solution” – Appercezioni – Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark 2022 “The poetic solution” – Appercezioni – IIC Copenhagen, Denmark 2022 “The poetic solution” – Appercezioni – IIC Paris, France 2015 “Burrnesha” by Valbona Xibri – Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark
2022 talk on A Je Burrnesh with EFFE Collective, Gioiosa J. and Lamezia Terme 2020 talk on A Je Burrnesh with Leporello, Parco Egeria, Roma since 2018 Member of Collettivo Appercezioni 2017 Speaker with “L’identità negoziata delle burrneshe albanesi” during “Rifugi della società – L’accoglienza e la protezione dei diritti dei rifugiati in Italia” – Coges Don Lorenzo Milani, Mestre, Italy 2014 Curator for “Telling about ancient lands” a photographic journey and workshop held by the photographer Lina Pallotta in Calabria Italy 2013 Photographer member for the Committee of “Punctum” Contest, Chiostro S’Anna, Ortona (CH) Italy 2013 Curator for “Tirana a nudo” Students final works Exposition, Italian Institute of Culture – Tirana (Albania) 2013 Creator and teacher of “Tirana a nudo” Reportage photography workshop at the “J. Misja” School of Art – Tirana (Albania) |