Since 2009, the Tricostarc ets Association, chaired by Giusy Giambertone with her Solidarity Trichology project, has been committed to improving the quality of life of patients suffering from trichological pathologies. Four of them, Angela, Annalisa, Monica and Simona, cancer patients, were the models of Calendar 2025 “DIAKRONICA – Beauty in time” signed byinternational photographer Italo Zannier. Every year the association supports women undergoing therapy with the ethical project of the Calendar thanks to which they are “interpreted” by the photographic art of illustrious masters of international fame, and which live as a hymn to beauty, an invitation to positive vision of the treatment process and a moment of lightness within an certainly arduous and difficult period. Among the many projects launched over the years, we also remember the Wig Bankthrough which donated wigs are made available free of charge to those who, for economic reasons, cannot afford them: in the San Giovanni-Addolorata hospital in Rome alone, more than 600 wigs have been loaned for use with savings for the community of over half a million euros.
This year to sign the calendar, created at the Giudecca in Venice, it was the “indomitable ninety-year-old” Italo Zannier, a true Friulian, born in 1932, a life dedicated to photography as a university professor, curator and creator of international exhibitions and reviews, who to date can boast around 600 publications, including essays, books and photobooks. «The choice to shoot on the Giudecca and not in the iconic places of Venice» explains Zannier «is due to the fact that it is an island, a village, where people know each other, and it is easier to find authentic interaction». In addition to the Giudecca, the photographer thought of other sets where he could portray the protagonists to «give the calendar a sense of the landscape, of the life of a place, of what’s inside», in which ««and models move, dialogue, interact with the environment”. Among these is also the studio of his wife Laura Mirè, a fashion designer, which is an environment with spectacular knitted sculptures destined for the fashion museum. The work was delivered in a group of twenty-two photographs chosen by the photographer from those created, original prints signed and authenticated. In his speeches Zannier underlines the importance of “photophany”, because his photo, his work, is the one printed on paper, not a digital file. The prints he delivered, therefore, were born from his vision, his interpretation of light, of grain or less, of more or less focus and he did it at the moment in which the printer showed him the image which is not possible reproduce again the same as the one delivered by him, if not using the original.
The calendar is free and you can request it at tricologiasolidale@tricostarc.com : of course it is welcome a free offer for the non-profit organization and the project.
