It is unsurprising that, as her hometown continued to shape her personal imagery over the years, her debut book, \u201cUn Mondo Proprio,\u201d brings her distinctive vision of the people and places of Naples to the fore, starting from the young women who, she argues, still hold secondary roles in its representation\u2014a portrayal set by \u201crigid gender norms and expectations.\u201d Comprising some 100 images between intimate portraits, domestic still life and electrifying, nocturnal action shots, the volume, printed in June, allows us a nuanced glimpse inside the lives of Zagari\u2019s closest girlfriends, also directing the attention to those of the women she serendipitously made along the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, Naples is a city of extremes: peace and chaos, wealth and poverty, breathtaking beauty and stark reality,\u201d the photographer says of the setting of her first monograph. The intensity, the rawness and the omnipresent life that make her love it are, at the same time, what frustrate her most about it. \u201cNaples is unpolished, imperfect and undeniably real, and the emotions it stirs are just as raw: here, love and hate, joy and pain, never separate, but always intertwine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is unsurprising that, as her hometown continued to shape her personal imagery over the years, her debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,4596,19,17,432,40680],"class_list":{"0":"post-136582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-identity","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-photography","19":"tag-selects"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}