Photographs That Self-Cure
Interview with Monica Silva
I'm not very good at talking about myself, but to be honest, I feel like I'm a more of a reflective woman today, although I'm full of dreams and energy. I feel that I have a strong responsibility on my shoulders because I cannot afford to betray my dreams and those who trust me. The greatest joy is being able to do my work in a way that is free of constraints. I am a very strict photographer with myself, who has always given herself strict discipline so as not to lose her goals. As a rule, I take photographs for my own pleasure, without asking myself what the public, the curator or the critic on duty want: it is a rule that I have set myself to carry forward my ideas without fear of being misinterpreted or of disappointing someone. After all, there is no harsher critic than ourselves!! I have a wonderful son, born in Italy from an Italian father, who I raised with great difficulties and who represents everything in my life. The lack of a real family, of a father and a mother, of roots, weighs me and to fill my voids I use photography in the therapeutic field, the basis on which I carry out all my work.