French, born in 1998. Lives and works in Paris
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Project Supported: MP#05

Fiora Garenzi studied photography and then languages and history of the Arab world as well as geopolitics at the Sorbonne, before starting to work on personal projects in 2018. 
As a documentary photographer and photojournalist, she focuses on contemporary issues, social questions and identity, mainly in Europe and the Arab world. At the same time, she collaborates with the press and occasionally for associations and NGOs. 
In 2023, she received the Prix de la Vocation from the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation, notably for her long-term project on a Ukrainian artillery unit, Freedom or Death, Ukraine or Death. Her documentary Djinns et dragons, made in Yemen, won the SAIF – Les femmes s’exposent en 2024 prize.
Her work is regularly exhibited at festivals in France and abroad. 

While her career has taken her to unstable and conflict-ridden zones at a very early age, it is to an intimate subject that she wishes to devote herself in MP#05, pursuing a poetic documentary on Corsican identity. 

L’isula hà ochji aims to offer a surrealistic documentary look at Corsica, evoking questions of identity, climate issues and the Corsican people’s relationship with their island. We’re here, we could be elsewhere, somewhere between reality and poetry. Non-palpable questions of identity are formalized, and habitual representations of the island questioned.