She became a mother for the first time as she was losing her own. Her photographs live in that in-between.
Australian-Italian photographic artist. Born in 1980. Motherhood, care, memory, domestic life. Based in New South Wales.
Lisa Sorgini was born in 1980 in Adelaide, of Australian and Italian heritage. Self-taught, she began with landscapes, worked as a viticulturist, then turned to photography with the birth of her son, in the same year she lost her mother. This founding coincidence runs through her entire body of work. Her long-form series, Behind Glass (motherhood during lockdown, shot through the windows of houses), In-Passing (birth and mourning at once), Thick Like Water (intergenerational bonds), The Bushfire, the Flood (climate anxiety), explore the invisible spaces of care, loss, and domestic life. A pictorial practice that recalls the Old Masters, yet is grounded in feminism and sociological inquiry.
