To me Photography and Philosophy are two sides of the same coin. Both are rooted in a deep interest in the human understanding of life.
I use photography as a performative and introspective tool to explore the narratives that occur on the threshold between the human inner world and the outside world. Therefore, I see photography as a therapeutic way to investigate both personal and social matters.
The Greek intended representation as metaphor, as allegorical image, as displaying of something that refers to something else or hidden. In my photographic practice I often adopt metaphoric performances, the surreal and the oneiric to tell and visualize untold thoughts, feelings, states of mind and unseen stories.
I always take my own self and intimacy – conceived as personal space(s) and perceptions, as personal relationships and experiences – as starting points to deepen and to explore both visually and emotionally, in order to widen the horizon to other realities with a different awareness.
Photography means philosophy to me, a love for the knowledge – of ourselves, of who and what comes across our way – that needs to be shared as part of the conversations about contemporary matters.
Greta Lorimer is an Italian artist and social educator based in Switzerland. Her practice sees philosophy and photography deeply intertwined. Her research focuses on the social and introspective potentialities of conceptual, social and performative photography.
She graduated with a BA in Philosophy from University La Sapienza of Rome. During the years in Rome, she combined the university studies with professional courses of documentary photography at CTS in collaboration with Società Geografica Italiana and National Geographic Italy, and of portrait photography at ISFCI, the Institute of Photography in Rome. Upon graduation from the course, she joined ISFCI as a teaching assistant in Portrait Photography.
She then moved to the United Kingdom where she pursued a Master’s Degree in Photography at the University of Brighton. After attending a professional course in PhotoTherapy at Istituto di Fototerapia Psicocorporea of Bologna, she moved to Switzerland where she works and study in the social field.
She has been selected as one of the graduates emerging talents UK 2018 by Barbican Curator Alona Pardo at Source Magazine that published one of her pictures. Greta has been selected for “30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2021” and is one of the artists featured in the Fast Forward research project @womeninphoto and in the online gallery Musée Magazine and LoosenArt. She has been selected by Revolv Collective to be part of a printed and digital publication around the theme “Homeland”. The book has been also presented at Sofia Art Week Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has exhibited in Rome, Brighton, London and Paris as part of Paris Photo Off collective show.
Greta has been part of “Carry Me Homeward” exhibition during the Brighton Photo Fringe Festival 2020. The exhibition has been shortlisted for the Photo Fringe Danny Wilson Award 2020 Professionals’ Choice.
For any enquiries feel free to contact the artist.
2021 Selected for the “30 under 30 women photographers 2021″ https://artpil.com/30under30/2021/
2020 Shortlisted for the Photo Fringe Danny Wilson Award 2020 Professionals’ Choice with “Carry Me Homeward” exhibition.
https://2020.photofringe.org/latest/photo-fringe-2020-danny-wilson-memorial-awards-winners
2020 Winner of the open call C*NSORSH*P curated by Foto Femme United https://www.fotofemmeunited.com/article/163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9rUnF1KeDA&feature=emb_logo
2020 Winner of the “Portrait Submission Call” curated by The South West Collective UK
https://thesouthwestcollective.co.uk/portrait-submission-winners/
2019 Selected by Lucy Soutter to be part of the collective exhibition “Salon 19” at Photofusion UK https://www.photofusion.org/exhibitions/salon-19-photofusion-annual-members-show/
2019 Selected by Revolv Collective to be part of the printed and digital publication “Homeland”. Date of the launch: 20th of July at Take Courage Gallery London.
The book has been also presented at Sofia Art Week Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is possibile to order the book at this link: https://revolvcollective.bigcartel.com
2019 Selected to be part of a collective exhibition as part of Paris Photo Off at Galerie Joseph Turenne in Paris on the 8th, 9th, 10th of November
2019 Selected for the Fast Forward conversations on the Instagram page @womeninphoto (4th-9th February 2019)
2018 LoosenArt Gallery – Selected to be part of the group exhibition “Bodies in movement” at Spazio Millepiani (Rome) from the 1st of February to the 11th of February 2019. https://www.loosenart.com/pages/news-bodies-in-movement-exhibition-1
The selected picture has also been chosen to be the background of the poster of the exhibition.
The same picture has been selected to be part of the official online gallery of LoosenArt.
2018 SOURCE Magazine – Graduate Photography Online 2018 – Selected by Barbican Centre London curator Alona Pardo as one of the best emerging talents graduate photographers UK 2018 with a series of the work Inner Rooms http://www.source.ie/graduate/2018/selection3_ma.html
Publication of a picture of the work Inner rooms on the Graduate Supplement in SOURCE Magazine Issue 95
2021 25th October – 30th October: “30 Under 30 Women Photographers” exhibition, at Artpil Gallery Rome Via Galileo Ferraris https://romeartweek.com/it/eventi/?id=3534
2020 10th October – 31st October: “Carry Me Homeward” exhibition, part of the Brighton Photo Fringe Festival 2020, at The Lock In Gallery Brighton, UK and online at https://2020.photofringe.org/exhibitions/tbc
https://2020.photofringe.org/exhibitions/tbc/view
2020 15th May – 31st July: collective exhibition C*NSORSH*P curated by Foto Femme United, Galerie &Co119, Rue Vieille du Temple Paris https://www.fotofemmeunited.com/article/163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9rUnF1KeDA&feature=emb_logo
2020 9th-26th February: collective exhibition “Visual Storytelling” curated by The South West Collective, Ground Floor, Fleetwalk, Highstreet Torquay UK
https://thesouthwestcollective.co.uk/portrait-submission-winners/
2019 5th December – 23rd January: collective exhibition “Salon 19” at Photofusion UK https://www.photofusion.org/exhibitions/salon-19-photofusion-annual-members-show/
2019 10th – 31st December: collective exhibition “Ideas are forms of life” at Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome
https://www.rossocinabro.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_2019/190_ideas_are_forms_of_life.htm
2019 12th – 30th November : collective exhibition “Be Rossocinabro” at Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome
https://www.rossocinabro.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_2019/189_Be_Rossocinabro.htm
2019 21st – 26th October : collective exhibition “Going and Coming” at Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome in occasion of RAW – Rome Art Week 2019 https://www.rossocinabro.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_2019/188_rome_art_week_2019_going_and_coming.htm
https://romeartweek.com/en/events/?id=2817&ida=926
https://www.rossocinabro.com/artist_bios/lorimer.htm
2019 8th, 9th, 10th November: collective exhibition Paris Photo Off at Galerie Joseph, Paris (the exhibition will take place at the same time of Paris Photo International Fine Art Photography Fair) https://www.imagenation.it/parishttps://www.imagenation.it/paris
2019 20th July: collective exhibition and launch of the book publication “Homeland” curated by Revolv Collective at Take Courage Gallery London http://revolv.org.uk/artists/homeland-publication-discussion/
http://revolv.org.uk/homeland-the-house-the-mother-and-the-state/
2019 27th June – 29th August: solo exhibition with selected works from the series Inner Rooms, Millennials’ Insights and An Ordinary Story at The Bee’s Mouth, Brighton
2019 1st May – 13th May: exhibition of selected works from the series Inner Rooms, Millennials’ Insights and An Ordinary Story as part of the collective exhibition “Photography Now” at The Brick Lane Gallery, London https://thebricklanegallery.com/abstract-exhibition-4th-14th-april-2-2
2019 22nd March: collective exhibition with the picture Room 102 at Jey Jazz Club, Rome – in occasion of Daniele Titta’s book presentation
2019 1st – 11th February: exhibition of a piece of the work Inner Rooms as part of the group exhibition “Bodies in movement” curated by LoosenArt gallery at Spazio Millepiani, Rome
2018 10th September – 20th September: exhibition of the work Inner Rooms as part of the group show “From the flow of appearances” at Grand Parade North Gallery, Brighton
2013 28th and 29th September: exhibition of the work “Two” as part of the collective exhibition “Prospettive Umane”
curated by Tortuga Display Association, at Complesso Ex Cartiera sala Nagasawa, Rome – Italy
http://www.associazionetortuga.it/index.php/social/33-social/tortuga-display/63-tortuga-display-prospettive-umane-2
2022 August: Showcase of “I was the one who chose you” as august Weekend Portfolio of Musée Magazine https://museemagazine.com/culture/2022/8/12/weekend-portfolio-greta-lorimer
2022 April: Online page on Photoworks UK website https://photoworks.org.uk/instagram-takeover-greta-lorimer/
2022 April: Instagram takeover of Photoworks UK account
2020 February: publication of an artwork by the magazine ARTIT (in the Photography Issue), UK
2020 9th-26th February: collective exhibition “Visual Storytelling” curated by The South West Collective, Ground Floor, Fleetwalk, Highstreet Torquay UK
https://thesouthwestcollective.co.uk/portrait-submission-winners/
2019 Publication of a picture as the front cover of the book “A sua immagine” by Jérôme Ferrari, edited by Edizioni E/O
2019 December: online publication of part of the portfolio edited by Matthew Hong at ArtPil https://artpil.com
2019 December: publication of the series “The colours of inner rooms” at OPENEYE Magazine France – Winter Edition 2019.
https://en.calameo.com/read/0051434053b9f2d65873d
2019 Printed and online publication the series “Fons et Origo” as part of “Homeland” book curated by Revolv Collective at Take Courage Gallery London http://revolv.org.uk/artists/homeland-publication-discussion/
http://revolv.org.uk/homeland-the-house-the-mother-and-the-state/
2014 Online publication of a piece of work at Nikon School https://www.nikonschool.it/sguardi/95/matera.php