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Calabria Upon Return is a collection of poetic impressions in photographs and words gathered over a number of years on visits to the artist’s home-region of Calabria in southern Italy. The unbound book is held together, physically and metaphorically, by a poem that weaves through Alessandra’s melancholy portraits of friends and strangers and photographs of dry, sun drenched landscapes.

Alessandra’s beautiful photographs and frank text are a moving personal reflection on the physical and psychological state of abandonment Calabria finds itself in; – economically and culturally sidelined and subsequently left behind by the many who, like Alessandra Kila herself, have chosen to emigrate.

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Alessandra Kila is an Italian born photographer, living and working in London, UK for over 15 years. She graduated from the University of Westminster with a Master’s Degree in Photographic Studies. Her work spans elaborate atmospheric still life and documentary projects.