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my name is tiffany and i'm the nice of barbra. i would like to say this book did change her life. it also changed how i look at my aunt and family today see how they want through life.

As free-lance artist photographer I first met Andrea Modica informally during a workshop in Italy (Toscana Photographic Workshop)in 1998. I thought she could be an influent teacher to me because she was a very modern photographer and the fact she is Italian was further stimulating for me as I am Italian. I planned to start a photography workshop in Tunisia, so I informed her about this idea and we exchanged letters. Then, in 1999 I took the initiative to invite her in Tunisia and I offered her a ticket from and to the States.
When she arrived in Tunisia, I must say that at the begin she had the unique program to take pictures of inanimated objects and this deceived me alot. I discussed the issue with her and she was at the point to fly back immediately (just after 3 days) because of my critic point of view of her trip there. I pointed that the travel should allow her to photograph people and landscape too.. She finally worked on this matter, always with her dramatical and onyrical at the same time photographic style, using the big 8x10"inchs camera. She managed to travel during this time, in july the weather was untolerably hot, to some places of her choice. We left in Tunis after a week and she said to me she "spent a very hard time" there with me. I got the impression that in 1999 Andrea was at a turning point of her photographic carreer and in fact she did not publish a new book about people, but on inanimated items (as the skull series).

I do not know exactely, but I see this link with the death and exixtential desease a tracker
psychologically persistant in her photography.
I feel skeptic about a renewal of her photographic expression and even I question myself about the ultimate sense of this art..

I mean maybe it could be readen merely as mirror of individualistic anxiety, not a genuine form of research and investigation of other realities of existence as previoulsy the critics underlined..