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Beatrice Sanjust
 Photographers
Natural is the first word that comes to mind in viewing the artist’s
work, as in the subject of her work and the portrayal of what she sees.
Faithful is the second. The artist is faithful to the basic mood or feeling she
captures when looking through the lens at her surroundings.
There is an undercurrent of environmental activism in some of the
photographs that clearly defend what the artist believes is hurting or
helping the environment. These are generally quite stark, mostly white
and black representations that clearly reflect her own view, as in the
bluntness of “Aria”, “GMO Kiss”, “The Crying Game” and “Chicken.” These are very honest photographs that do not even attempt to call on the highly
publicized and slightly worn contradictions associated with the subjects; they
just show the direct and slightly ironic views of the artist.
In other photographs, the artist explores shape and meaning, in the
sense that she finds mundane shapes and imbues them, through a particularly
artistic manipulation, with wider meaning that others can identify
with, as in “Philosopher’s Portrait” or “Communication Star” and even “Cookie”, with its tug at the heartstrings (and stomach) of all those who have grown up with that brand as a familiar household name.
This is clearly the work of an artist well on her way to developing her own style and who has found her medium to represent an unapologetic view of the world as she sees it.Vivian Barsanti
Biography:
Beatrice Sanjust di Teulada was born in Rome, Italy in 1978. She grew up in the city and in the neighboring countryside, in a kaleidoscope of situations: many different schools and friends and animals and Nature. Her first pictures were taken with a one-use camera in Perugia, where she moved to study Veterinary Medicine- in the beginning it was landscapes, then her curiosity grew towards people, everyday life and its unusual details, until she found herself with an amount and a variety of images that filled her with the hunger of enlargements and tecnique. Meanwhile, her photographer Uncle had given her a little automatic camera, followed by a manual one... Shaken by the desire to fully experience art, she went to study graphics at the London Institute of London, where her interest in photography deepened as she began to use the darkroom and the computer. She reflected on the utter power of natural light, on the infinite rainbows that reality forgot and film remembered... The following year her classes became part-time as she began working in three of the most renowned photography galleries in London. There was a darkroom in the basement that she could use, and the long hours spent in the red, sulphur-smelling darkness whispered that she would soon have to share her images: her first solo exhibition , "Silver & Green" took place in April 2002 at Bar Room Bar ,111 Kennington Road. Here she outlined original portraits and touched the love and care of Nature. Soon after, another exhibition followed in Soho, after which she landed in Italy for a series of shows with her painter Father, on the theme of Nature, and with her friends-collegues on different themes such as Ecology, Peace and Gloves. In 2004 she published various reportages for "Il Sole 24Ore" and "People Magazine".
Meanwhile, walking through the worlds of art, music and communication, she works as a commercial photographer and concocts portraits of artists, models and friends, as well as frequently exhibiting her images as video projections in many Roman venues.
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