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   Vanessa Vettorello


Vanessa Vettorello is an Italian photographer based in Turin. With a background in Psychology, her practice investigates notions of identity, perception, and social structures through research projects and environmental portraiture. 
A Fujifilm Global Winner of the GFX Grant Project (2024) and an Eddie Adams Workshop alumna (2017), she currently teaches portrait photography at IED Turin. 
She is a member of Women Photograph and a co-founder of Freaks. 


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03.Bollywood Talkies
2013-2017
 Story
Mumbai, India
India’s cinema landscape reflects its deep social divisions through three distinct types of theaters: dying single-screen halls, expanding modern multiplexes, and often unregulated video parlors. Frequented by specific audiences based on their socio-economic background, these venues serve as a tangible metaphor for a social fabric that remains profoundly fragmented.

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Interior of a video parlour in Dharavi, the biggest slum in the world. The number of video parlours increased a few years ago because single-screen cinemas were closing in some areas of the city. 
The ticket price is between 1 and 5 rupees
Maratha Mandir, Mumbai. Since 1995, this historic single-screen cinema has hosted a daily collective ritual: the uninterrupted screening of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Edward Theatre in Mumbai, now closed
A projector in an old single-screen cinema in Pune, now closed
Audience in an illegal Dharavi video parlour. Video parlours change venue during the year due to their illegal status
This is the basement of the Edward Theatre. In the '70s and '80s, the manager's family and cinema employees used to live in the same building as the cinema. It was a large community. 
Edward Theatre has been closed since the Covid pandemic
New Roshan was one of the most famous single-screen theatres in South Mumbai. There were a lot of theatres until 2004 in the Grant Road area in Mumbai. New Roshan closed in 2021
A family inside Metro Big Cinemas on a Friday night. Metro is a beautiful Art Deco cinema that opened on 5 June 1938. It became one of Bollywood's most famous red-carpet theatres. Despite such achievements, Metro could not stand up to the multiplex invasion. The promoters decided to transform the old cinema into a multiplex
Interior of the Edward Theatre
New Roshan, Mumbai
A helper at the Edward Cinema paying attention to some odd sounds coming from the balcony. Some pigeons had entered the space again. 
When I interviewed the manager, Sanjay, he said: “There's no future for this place, I'm very sorry”
Bharatmata Cinema, one of the last cinemas still open after the Covid pandemic