Sara Melotti is a storyteller:
documentary photographer, filmmaker and writer, her work focuses on travel stories and social & humanitarian issues.
Born and raised in Northern Italy Sara moved to the States right after high school. She started doing photography accidentally— after she was given a camera as a gift—venturing down the fashion photography lane at first. A few month from the first click Sara turned her newly found passion into a full time career that brought her to work with designers in Milan, London, NYC, LA and Hong Kong. After 3 years working as a fashion photographer in NYC one day she started to feel torn inside as she realised the kind of images she was producing were contributing to create very unrealistic standards of beauty that made women suffer. In October 2015 she left the fashion industry and created QUEST FOR BEAUTY, a personal project. She started traveling the world photographing everyday women immerse in their everyday life to understand what beauty meant to them.
Since then her work has taken her across the world—from NYC to Vietnam, to Morocco to Cuba to Iraq, and many more countries in between—and led her to work within the travel industry.
In the last few years Sara has shifted the focus of her work on travel stories and social and humanitarian issues: she documented violence against women in India, Iraq refugee and IDP camps, drug addiction in Zanzibar, and more.
Throughout the years on the road Sara developed a good and organic following on social media, also thanks to her controversial expose article ‘Instagram created a monster’ who got her mentions in the New York Times, Daily Mail, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Sunday Times and many more.
In 2021 she published her first book “La Felicità è una scelta” (Piemme).
She’s now based in Italy and keeps traveling, working with brands, agencies and NGOs across the globe, telling stories of places, cultures, traditions but, above all, stories of people.
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