Faces and Places
Photographs of India and Italy by Elisa Paloschi

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Bio
Elisa became interested in photography back when film was expensive and cameras were not toys. She spent her summers with a film-less camera pretending to take photos.  By the time she was 10, looking though the viewfinder just wasn’t enough – she wanted to start snapping for real.  In grade 6 she participated in a photography workshop during a weeklong art festival celebrating the sun. Her mother, eager to see Elisa be involved in more than just skateboarding, lent her the camera with a full role of film.  Taken on a field trip to downtown Kingston to interpret the sun, Elisa’s very first image was of the sculpture above the door of the old Whig Standard Newspaper building.

At 18, and on her way to study at the Ontario College of Art, she asked for a camera for Christmas.  The brightly coloured box under the tree, (the much-coveted camera, her brother assured her) turned out to be an electric wok, a tool her parents thought would be useful during her student years in Toronto.  After a year at O.C.A., she gave up on stir frys and Toronto, and escaped to the more flavourful city of Rome. It was here that she completed her studies in photography at the European Institute of Design. 

After working for years with large format cameras and traveling with a heavily laden camera bag – the burden became too much, simple still pictures were no longer worth their weight. So she moved on to motion imagery and on to Palermo where she set up a video production company. Her time-based work was invited to participate in European film festivals such as Oberhousen in Germany and the Bellaria and Torino festivals in Italy.  From the linear she moved to the non-linear and onwards to Australia where her interactive multimedia work gained high praise and industry awards.