2009, Beijing, China. In a conference center in the Northern part of the Fifth Ring Rd. white collars come and go through their daily routine. From my street photo series "Non Places", about the alienated spaces of our contemporaneity.

Sabrina Merolla

smerollaphoto@gmail.com +39 3332214230 Italy

Topics of Focus

social, cultural and human rights issues and events

Geographic Areas of Focus

China, Italy, Europe, Turkey, Armenia, Greece

Biography

Free-lance photographer, multimedia story-teller and sinologist living between Italy and China. Her previous projects have mainly focused on contemporary China and its multifaceted identities and displacements.

Originally a self-thaught photographer. After a PhD in East Asia Cultural Studies and a career as a Sinologist, she graduated at the  Bolton University M.A. in International Multi Media Journalism (U.K./China).

Her works have been exhibited, among the others, at: PAN-Palace of the Arts of Naples (Italy, 2010 and 2012), The Italian Consulate of Guangzhou (2010), Yin Photo Gallery (798 Art District: 2012, Beijing), Pingyao International Festival of Photography (China; 2012), Siena International Photo Awards (Siena, Italy: 2015), l'Asilo of Naples (Italy 2015; 2016).

2012 she was the first foreigner to win the Creative Commons Focus on China Award, with her project Roads.

2014 her photo essay All China's Fast Food Dreams earn a 3rd place and two honorable mentions for photojournalism at Mobile Photo Awards.

2015 here conceptual series on modernity, Non-Places was exhibited as a finalist at SIPA-Siena International Photo Awards 2015.

2016 she was finalist at Fotoleggendo festival (Rome), with My Blue Days with F., a personal storytelling about her own life with fibromyalgia and MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity). It was also featured on Lens Culture on World Fibromyalgia, ME and MCS Awareness Day (May 12, 2016).

Published on:

Asian Cha, Blow-up, Electru.De, Il Manifesto, La Lettura (Corriere della Sera), Laya Bozi, Lens Culture, Pagina99, Private Photo Review, Repubblica, Revista Pecado, Rockerilla, Rosa Selvaggia, Street Photography Magazine.

She writes for Private Photo Review.