Flipbook: Lucilla Bellini

Lucilla Bellini is an Italian born photographer, collage artist, and art-director. She graduated in Visual Anthropology and Cinema in Florence. She specialized in fashion photography, focusing on the female portrait in a poetic, emotional and strongly cinematic manner. She has travelled through Europe and Asia and lived in Italy, France and Spain, acquiring an eclectic and multicultural vision of the world that is reflected in her way of telling stories through any medium of photography: analog, instant or digital. Her work is characterized by a strong imaginative component and sophisticated use of color. She doesn’t just describe things in a plain way but instead with altered colors and doubled images. She drives reality to be open to different interpretations. As a portrait photographer, her style is very natural, and she focuses her interest on atmospheric elements such as air, water, wind and daylight— playing with her subjects to hold onto a moment or a memory forever. Her work examines the fragility and transience of beauty. She currently lives between Florence, Italy and Tenerife, Spain.

This series, “Bonjour Summer,” comes from the idea of portraying two friends, who have known each other for a long time, in a natural way to celebrate their friendship. It also considers the beauty of friendship in general, the confidence and the intimate bond that women build with each other.