Andrea Frongia
Italy
Biography
Andrea is a photographer specialized in historical analog photographic techniques, with a particular focus on late nineteenth-century processes. Her work is grounded in deep research into photography as a physical, slow, and unrepeatable experience, in constant dialogue with time and memory. Through a faithful reproduction of an 1890 minute camera, she makes instant portraits using a late nineteenth-century technique, offering sitters an authentic and immersive experience of photography's origins. Each image results from a completely manual process in which gesture, waiting, and human relationship form an essential part of the work. Defining herself as a “nostalgic photographer from another era,” her practice stands in contrast to the speed and immateriality of contemporary photography, recovering the ritual and artisanal value of the photographic act. She lives and works in Fuerteventura, where she develops her artistic and educational practice. Within the Experimental Photo festival in Barcelona she will lead two workshops dedicated to 1890 minute photography, sharing the history, technique, and practice of one of the most fascinating processes from photography's beginnings.







