Recently I received the following idea  from Sergio Garbari.

In case you didn’t know who he is, Sergio is a professional photographer who has worked for the Uffizi gallery in Florence and is well-known through his remarkable pictures. One of Sergio’s exhibitions was a highlight in the season of shows that were held in our much lamented Shelley House at Bagni di Lucca, Villa.

You can read about Sergio’s experiments with infra-red photography in that exhibition at:

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/infra-red-at-bagnis-shelley-house/

More recently, and in honour of the fallen on the hundredth anniversary of the Great War, Sergio went around our villages in the Lima valley photographing, both lyrically and tragically, their war memorials. You can see some of his results in my post at:

https://longoio3.com/2018/11/06/for-our-valleys-fallen/

Sergio has proposed the following project:

Despite the untimely end of the ‘Borgo degli Artisti’ the members of the former cultural association have stated that they will present an exhibition at the Casino on the occasion of ‘Women’s week’ which opens on the 8th of March. Sergio has in mind to put together a small series of black-and-white photographs, similar to what was done last year, and presenting portraits of English women who reside, either part or full-time, in the comune of Bagni di Lucca.

Sergio is looking for twelve ladies (it is, after all, going to be women’s week!) who have come to stay in our area. I can think of several ladies who fit the bill perfectly . I will not mention their names here but I know them through their contribution to the arts and in entrepreneurship.

Realising Sergio’s brilliant photography I am quite sure that there will be many ‘signore’ who will be interested. All they have to do is to contact me via my email address at fpettitt@gmail.com.

I will then relay the information to Sergio who will arrange a photography session. Incidentally, this is similar to Kevan Halson’s photographic and interview project. The main difference is that Sergio’s project specifically concentrates on women and will be presented as part of Bagni di Lucca’s women’s week celebration at the casino of Ponte a Serraglio.

I am sure, ladies, you will agree that this is a very worth-while project and that you will be happy to take part in it.