Marta Sarlo was born in Trani in 1983 and currently lives and works in Rome. In 2007, after a three year period, she was graduated by the Scuola Romana di Fotografia. During the years 2006-2007, she produced a reportage focused on inmates living conditions in the psychiatric and penitentiary hospital of Aversa and in 2007, thanks to such reportage, FNAC assigned her an honorable mention (“Attention to a photographic talent”). Starting from 2007 she has been working for CONTRASTO. In 2008 she took part in the Reflexions-masterclass, held by Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret. In 2009, with the reportage focused on obesity entitled Angela, she won the prize “Canon Giovani Fotografi”. Starting from 2007 she has been working with the most important Italian newspapers such as IL 24, Panorama, Io Donna, L’Espresso, Internazionale, D di Repubblica, Vanity Fair, Gioia, Rearviewmirror etc…
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Angela is a precocious athlete. Making her first motions in water when she was just 4 years old, she became a professional at 15 and the year after she swam across the Strait of Messina. Because of her robust build, she is driven by her coaches to undertake a very strict dietetic regime: To win you have to give up food, they say. And she begins to eat secretly. At 18 she already weighs 70 kilos. Today, Angela is an obese woman, struggling with her body and her loneliness.
