It’s a sea shore. A place where we can forget ourselves and share our loneliness with elements. The beach becomes, under the Adriana Lestido’s camera, a plastic space, which carries in it many promises.

Love is a diffuse, deep, and terribly personal feeling. Far from being a universal feeling, we find back ourselves alone with our questionings. To share it, we miss words sometimes. Remain pictures to explain what we are feeling. This pictures series is an essay on this feeling, which brings us closer to the other...making us alone.

Adriana Lestido is offering us a trip through South-African landscapes. The “rainbow nation” could not exist just in a bright-coloured place. On the South-African roads, along the countryside lands, the lack of human beings can surprise us. This photographic choice makes us feel the stillness before the storm when South Africa will be the first African country to organise the Football World Cup in 2010.

Difficult loves (Mothers and daughters) By Marta Dillon In Mother and daugthers photographer Adriana Lestido is searching her own traces in the features she captures, which are drawn for all women: repeated gestures that make only mothers out of us, only daughters, women born of a woman who expels us: love and helplessness.Alter two series on motherhood at risk –Tenn-age mothers adn Women jailed- Lestido is not afraid of looking at this bond without any distraction. For three years she photographed four mothers at their most intimate activities, women who are walking the path of life together, wothout any men in their family. Adriana watches mothers with a daughter´s eye. She cooses the...

The prison life is, in collective imaginary, an environment deeply masculin, virile, and even chauvinist. Yet, many women are imprisoned in the world. How do they conciliate their confinement and their woman, mother, and wife’s life? Adriana Lestido documents this taboo issue and submerges us in a little-known environment.