I started with the self-portrait almost immediately having picked up my first camera, at the time there was no digital and there were some practical limits, yet I photographed myself in the mirror, in the shop windows, or with a tripod, in study or in my rooms.

My career as a photographer has been long and full of experiences and lucky encounters.

The body, the naked body often, very often, were at the center of my shots.

Then came the social issues, issues related to the female situation, the study of marketing, communication, psychology and finally, tired of the deception of the media, of eating disorders, of the suffering that I always found in women because of their perception of their level of beauty, I decided to do a workshop that would reveal a few things to women, such as that the stereotype of beauty of the moment was a bluff designed by the media to push us to buy and never be satisfied, to generate needs, that the photos in the newspapers were all fake, that the imposed model did not exist ...

It was 2013 when I held my first workshops.

Then I continued for a couple of years, while my life was getting messed up, while due to a painful personal story, my self-esteem suffered severe blows, almost zeroing, where I let myself go almost without realizing it, where all my insecurity, my frailty, emerged overwhelmingly.

Since 2016, everything has changed, I managed to get out of a very delicate and painful situation, and I found myself, at 45, alone, with an aged and neglected body, a disastrous psychological situation and my whole life to be restored. place.

I decided to deepen the themes of beauty, self-esteem, well-being, determination, working on the causes that had led me to be in that bad situation.

I had a workshop for women, I had photography, my art and I started working on myself for two years, every day.

Everything happened, unhinging my beliefs, using photography, selfie and social media, it also happened that I did the Curvy model over 45, and still today I'm doing it for some brands.

I applied to myself everything I taught my pupils.

Today I present a new workshop, much richer, much more complete, experienced in my life, which starts from the photographic technique, from the philosophy of beauty, from self-care, from the study of communication, eroticism, sensuality up to unhinge that negative image we have of us, which I call our VISUAL PREJUDICE.

The workshop is for women only, for photographers and not, many photos are taken, self-portraits and selfies, and there is also a room available to participants to take nude photos in total privacy.

There is an Instagram account to follow where I share stories and posts

@varuscis

and on my website you will find the next dates on the calendar.

Feel free to write me for more info a

vrcomuncazione@vanessarusci.com

Good life to everyone!

Vanessa