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\u201cwhat do you do for a living?\u201d\u2028
\u201cI\u2019m a photographer,\u201d\u2028
she used to reply \u2014 until recently.\u2028
now she flounders:\u2028
\u201can acrobat.\u201d\u2028
\u201creally?\u201d\u2028
\u201c\u2026do I look like one?\u201d\u2028
alternatively:\u2028
\u201cso, what\u2019s your field?\u201d\u2028
\u201ca professional waste-of-space\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Michela Battaglia (1982) is a former young woman, born and raised by the sea in Mondello (Palermo), amid Mafia killings and a parallel childhood.\u2028\t
It\u2019s a shame \u2014 such a sharp mind; she could have done so much more.\u2028\t
She grows bitter at history\u2019s recurring mistakes, wasted opportunities, the lack of care for detail \u2014 and the apostrophe where there should be an accent.\u2028\t
If she\u2019d been born a billboard, today she\u2019d be an influencer or content creator \u2013 but she doesn\u2019t quite have the physique du r\u00f4le, not even to be her own marketing director.\u2028\t
She\u2019s an artisan acrobat. She tries not to lose her balance or the tactile dimension of things. To keep her idle high.\u2028\t
She brings curiosity and seriousness to her nature and passions. Her work explores the themes of memory, love, death, and absence, each approached from different perspectives.\u2028\t
After earning a Classical high school diploma and a Master\u2019s Degree in Modern Philology from the University of Palermo (2008), she went on to pursue two postgraduate programs in photography: Photography and Visual Design at NABA and FORMA in Milan (2009), and the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism One-Year Certificate Program at ICP in New York City (2014). She has moved approximately twenty times. She has published three books \u2014 Storie di Mafia<\/em>, Babel<\/em>, and Carissimo Iosif <\/em> \u2014 and her work has been featured in several exhibitions.\u2028\t
To get by \u2014 somewhere between a sense of defeat and rare bursts of optimism \u2014 she works in a call center. Inbound, but still a call center. She doesn\u2019t love it, but it gives her a certain peace of mind and creative freedom. She once dreamed of doing radio; instead, she ended up talking on the phone. Or, as a child once put it: from \u201cphotographist\u201d to \u201ctelephonist.\u201d\u2028\t
She can\u2019t tell the power company, \u201cSorry, there\u2019s no budget.\u201d Freedom has a price \u2014 one she pays, always, with affection.\u2028\t
Provider of gin and tonics at improbable hours. Accomplished procrastinator. She mostly survives on Kinder Buenos and canned tuna.\u2028\t
In the morning, she dances in her pajamas around the kitchen. She\u2019d have a fried calzone for breakfast, but in the end settles for a three-cup moka pot.\u2028\t
She avoids social media, keeps Twitter only as a source of information, and refuses to call it \u201cX.\u201d\u2028\t
She cultivates the talent for \u201cgrowing old without becoming an adult.\u201d\u2028\t
She lives in Milan, even though there\u2019s no sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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biography \u00abche lavoro fai?\u00bb.\u00a0\u00abla fotografa\u00bb\u00a0rispondeva fino a poco tempo fa. oggi annaspa:\u00abacrobata\u00bb\u00abvero?\u00bb\u00ab\u2026ma ti pare?\u00bbin alternativa:\u00abdi cosa ti occupi?\u00bb\u00abdi fancazzismo\u00bb. Michela Battaglia (1982) \u00e8 un\u2019ex giovane nata e cresciuta davanti al mare di Mondello (PA) tra morti ammazzati dalla Mafia e un\u2019infanzia parallela. \u00abPeccato, una bella intelligenza, potrebbe fare di pi\u00f9\u00bb. 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