ARCHIVIO F.

After years working in fashion and creating campaigns for Dior among others, Laura Sciacovelli turned her attention to something that stands in contrast to the controlled image-making of the fashion and advertising world. She sought to leave space for accidents, mistakes, imperfections, and traces of truth.

Polaroids have become her language of choice. Each image is a journey, an unpredictable apparition. The photograph does not appear immediately—it emerges slowly, as if from a secret interior. Colors shift, edges blur, and shadows linger where she does not expect them. Imperfections appear like scars, like traces of another reality. To work with Polaroid, for Sciacovelli, is to accept fragility as part of the process—to recognize that beauty is never fixed.

It is an act of surrender: to embrace impermanence, to welcome accident, delay, and mystery. It is to allow chance to speak louder than intention, accepting that every image carries within it the possibility of loss. What is fleeting can also be infinite; disappearance and presence are two faces of the same truth.

For Sciacovelli, this project is not only an archive—it is a meditation on cycles, on light and shadow, and on the many forms of femininity that inhabit and surround her. It is an act of preservation against oblivion, a surrender to the inevitable passing of all things.

Forma is what holds the ephemeral together, what allows matter to become visible. It is the frame defining a gesture, a curve, a shadow, the fleeting architecture of a body or nature itself. Form is never fixed—it shifts, dissolves, and is continually reconfigured by time.

Flora discloses the truth of impermanence, the insistence that what is delicate can be powerful precisely because it does not last. They embody both abundance and disappearance, offering themselves in cycles, as nature does, mirroring our own transformations.

Femmina is not a definition but a constellation. Strength woven with fragility, tenderness with force, vulnerability inseparable from power. The feminine is not a role—it is an energy, a rhythm, an unending source of inspiration that guides me through my own becoming.

Laura Sciacovelli was born in Bari, Italy, in 1976. She lives and works between her native Puglia and Paris. For over twenty years she has built an international career as a fashion photographer, and she continues to collaborate with leading brands and publications while pursuing her personal artistic projects.

Inspired by her native land’s rich and luminous natural light, Sciacovelli is renowned for her insightful and empowering portrayals of the “iconic woman.” Employing a cinematic style, she captures the spirit, power, and sensuality of female beauty, while reimagining the traditional narratives of the feminine subject.

Working with Polaroids as her chosen medium, she embraces unpredictability and imperfection as essential to the process, allowing fragility, chance, and transformation to shape her work.