ABOUT

Greta Stella is an Italian photographer born in 1992 and based between Genova, Milan and Turin.

Graduated in New Media at DAMS School in Turin, she started working as copywriter and photographer in the communication field, for art, culture and design realities.
Through storytelling and portraiture, her photos tell stories of women and men in their relationship with the roots and the changes of the surrounding ecosystem.
With the long term project “First, the language”, born in a Mik'maq reserve in Quebec (Canada), she has started investigating the revival of ancient and native languages remitted and erased by colonialism and new modern politics.
In 2022 she began the long term project CEMENTUM, a visual research on the phenomenon of cementification in Liguria, one of the smallest Italian region, eaten up by concrete and saved by the last vegetable gardens. An ongoing journey born to collect visual testimonies of soil consumption and of those who guard it every day.

For her work "Volontaria Mente", a photo project realized during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, she has been awarded by Presidente della Repubblica as Cavaliere al Merito.

Her works have been published on BBC News, El Pais, Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Ansa, La Repubblica, Marie Claire Italia,  El Confidencial, 1854, C41 Magazine, Il Secolo XIX, IVG.it