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CLEOPATRA JOINT My visual practice intertwines reality and the dreamlike, with a focus on emotional and relational dynamics. I am represented by YAH Factory gallery. I have exhibited in group shows in Bari, Milan, and Paris, taking part in Paris Photo OFF and One Shot in Milan. In 2025, I presented my first solo exhibition in Milan. I have also exhibited near AncheCinema Bari and at the Bari Puglia International Film Festival, where I was among the winners. In 2026, I was selected by Comò to exhibit as part of Fotografia Europea at Atelier Due Gobbi. My work has been published in Perimetro and SuperOtto. I have also curated and organized Fuori Bifest between Spazio13, Bari’s cultural hub, and the Bari Civic Museum, creating a group exhibition of contemporary art and involving filmmakers such as Manuel Marini and Nicola Ragone. LOCATION Bari ITALY CAMERA/S Canon R6 WEBSITE https://acleopatrajoint.tumblr.com/ @CLEOPATRAJOINT FEATURES // Regina: Boarding School Life and Dreams

PICTORIAL STORY REGINA: BOARDING SCHOOL LIFE AND DREAMS A boarding school room becomes the frame for Cleopatra Joint’s portrait of ambition, instability, and a young woman’s search for freedom. July 26, 2026 PICTORIAL STORY PHOTOGRAPHY Cleopatra Joint TEXT Melanie Meggs SHARE Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Visual artist Cleopatra Joint begins with the facts of a room: a bed, a desk, a wardrobe, a window, a few square metres. A temporary space in a boarding school in Bari becomes the setting for a young woman caught between study, modeling, love, uncertainty, and the wish to become someone closer to herself. The young woman, Regina, left Rome years ago and now lives in Bari, dreaming of leaving university behind to make modeling her career. The room she inhabits is meant to function as home, though it remains provisional. It is too small, too temporary, too marked by transition. Cleopatra photographs this condition without overstating it. She stays with the ordinary facts of Regina’s afternoon and allows the emotional weight of the situation to surface slowly. Born in Bari in 1996, where she continues to live and work, Cleopatra has developed a visual practice that moves between reality and a more dreamlike sensibility. Her work often turns toward emotional and relational dynamics, asking how people reveal themselves through rooms, gestures, silence, and the fragile structures of daily life. She is represented by YAH Factory gallery and has exhibited in Bari, Milan, and Paris, including Paris Photo OFF and One Shot in Milan. In 2025, she presented her first solo exhibition in Milan and was among the winners at the Bari Puglia International Film Festival. In 2026, she was selected by Comò to exhibit as part of Fotografia Europea at Atelier Due Gobbi. For Cleopatra, photography began with loss. As a child, she hated being photographed. She felt the camera as something invasive, especially at birthdays and gatherings where the image seemed to arrive from outside her own control. At eleven, something changed. “It was an unconscious awareness that I needed to stop time in order to preserve something precious. At that age, I found my first close group of friends, and that was a great source of happiness for me. One summer afternoon, I felt an urge to capture an image of two of my friends playing on a merry-go-round. I took that photograph with my first mobile phone, and at the time, being so young, I had no understanding of digital storage or archiving. When that phone eventually stopped working, I lost a cherished memory in a very tangible way. Yet I still remember the photograph perfectly.” That early loss continues to echo through Cleopatra’s practice. Photography became a way to hold what might vanish, but also a way to understand why certain moments remain so forcefully in the mind. Her images are not concerned with fixing life neatly. They work closer to the instability of memory, identity, and relation. The photograph becomes a place where something private can be brought into form without being entirely explained. Her relationship with Bari is central to this way of seeing. Cleopatra describes the city through contradiction, saying she is not sure whether she loves it or hates it. “What has certainly weighed on me is the sense of emptiness and boredom that often characterises life in Southern Italy: growing up in a working-class neighbourhood, having to scrape together money, pooling what little we had just to buy food, numbing ourselves so we wouldn’t have to think, those familiar experiences of many young people from provincial towns.” She quotes the Italian rapper Marracash: “You steal our time, the only thing we have.” In Cleopatra’s work, this line does not sit as a cultural reference alone. It becomes a way to understand how time, in certain environments, can be both the only possession and the first thing taken. Bari is not simply the city where she works. It has shaped her sense of limitation, desire, and the emotional life of those trying to move beyond what was handed to them. This understanding sits quietly inside this project. Regina’s dream is not treated as fantasy. It is shown as something that must exist alongside rent, study, uncertainty, and the practical demands of survival. Cleopatra sees her as courageous because she has accepted instability in order to pursue a life that feels more honest. “Very few people are willing to accept an unstable or precarious life in pursuit of their dreams. Many of us become trapped by the logic of the capitalist system, and I don’t deny that, in the kind of society we live in, money is undeniably necessary. But life cannot be reduced to that alone.” This sentence gives the project its tension. Regina is not simply waiting for life to begin. She is already inside the cost of wanting something different. Her dream of becoming a model is set against the reality of being at the beginning of that path, before recognition, before security, before certainty. Cleopatra does not make this conflict sentimental. She lets it remain unresolved. They had met through Instagram, when Cleopatra was searching for new faces interested in sharing their stories. “One afternoon, I simply asked if I could photograph her in her boarding school room — a tiny space that had somehow captivated me. She agreed, and the following day I documented her everyday life in what is supposed to be her home, but never quite feels like one, precisely because it is a boarding school room. I spent the day talking with her while taking photographs. We listened to music and shared a few joints. Nothing more. The work emerged naturally from that time together and, above all, from the trust she placed in me.” That trust matters because the photographs are built through proximity rather than performance. Regina does not appear as a character created for the camera. She appears as someone allowing another person close enough to witness a private threshold. Cleopatra describes the entire project as “spontaneous observation,” guided by empathy and instinct. “Nothing was constructed,” she says. Cleopatra was drawn to Regina’s sensitivity, her quietness, and the fact that she spoke very little about herself. This silence became part of the project’s structure. Where Cleopatra often describes her own inner world with precision, Regina seemed to carry hers in a different way. “I often meet people who struggle to express who they are, and that fascinates me because I’m the opposite. I tend to describe my inner world with almost surgical precision. I believe that true isolation often lies in not allowing yourself the possibility of expressing yourself to others. Perhaps, in some way, what I’m trying to do through my work is to help bring that isolation to an end.” The room reflects the condition of someone living between where she has come from and where she hopes to go. Its walls hold a private conflict: the desire for freedom pressed against the reality of a life still being assembled. The project’s visual movement follows that conflict. Some images feel enclosed, drawing us into the weight of the room. Others suggest air, light, and the possibility of movement beyond it. Cleopatra’s use of black and white and colour is deliberate. “I believe that black and white helps one enter a more introspective territory, but at a certain point I wanted there to be a sense of hope. Something that pushes us to keep fighting in such a complex world. For this reason, I introduced colour into the work. Initially, I used only the natural light coming from the window. Later, I added a LED light to create a more intimate and nocturnal atmosphere, because I associate warm light with our most private moments of solitude, especially at night.” This movement between inwardness and hope is also tied to Cleopatra’s wider visual language. She began to recognise this language through lucid dreams, which she translated into photography while holding onto a neorealist approach. Italian cinema from the mid-twentieth century onward has shaped this sensibility. Her images are not an escape. They allow the inner life to sit beside the visible world. As Cleopatra says, “photographing is a way of processing my life. It is the only healthy method I know that truly allows me to understand myself and make sense of what happens to me.” In Regina’s room, this language finds a precise subject. The boarding school space is factual, but it also holds the psychological pressure of transition. The photographs do not separate the visible from the internal. They allow one to press against the other. Regina’s body, the bed, the window, the evening light, and the limits of the room all become part of the same question: how does a person continue to dream while living inside conditions that make dreaming difficult? This gives the project its broader social force, and is not only about a young woman in a room. It is about the pressure placed on young people to appear certain while living through instability. Cleopatra speaks directly about this pressure. “We all pretend a little too much. We construct these online lives, carefully controlled, where we present ourselves as winners, but once we are behind the walls of our homes, we know the truth is different. We all have problems, but we are ashamed of them.” For women, Cleopatra sees this struggle as even more obstructed. She speaks of a society shaped by sexism, where the path toward a career can become “a nightmare made of resistance.” Within this context, Regina’s dream of modelling carries complexity. To become visible is also to become vulnerable to judgement. Cleopatra’s photographs understand that tension. They do not confine Regina into beauty, ambition, or fragility. They hold these things together, because that is how they exist in life. The title, Boarding School Life and Dreams , carries this double position. There is the daily fact of the room, and there is the dream pressing beyond it. Regina has joined a modelling agency in Puglia and is beginning to build that path. Cleopatra believes in her, but she also understands that belief alone does not remove fear. Dreams require foundations. They require time, discipline, money, and the ability to endure uncertainty without being destroyed by it. © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) © Cleopatra Joint, Regina (2025) In Regina: Boarding School Life and Dreams , Cleopatra Joint gives serious attention to a life in the middle of becoming. The project does not ask Regina to arrive at a conclusion. It stays with the moment before arrival, where desire is still forming and the future remains unresolved. Its strength lies in its refusal to overstate what it knows. The room is small, but Cleopatra allows it to hold the size of Regina’s uncertainty, and the full weight of her dream. view Cleopatra's portfolio website Cleopatra's instagram Regina's instagram The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author/s and are not necessarily shared by The Pictorial List. read more stories >>> REGINA: BOARDING SCHOOL LIFE AND DREAMS A boarding school room becomes the frame for Cleopatra Joint’s portrait of ambition, instability, and a young woman’s search for freedom. LIFE ALONG THE RIVER Along the Hooghly, Shubhodeep Roy photographs Kolkata through faith, labour and memory, revealing a city shaped by water, inheritance and shared life. A HOME OF MEMORIES AND THE PRESENT Davide Santangelo returns to his family home by moonlight, tracing how absence, memory, and love continue to live within place, objects, and atmosphere after loss. THE PULL OF THE EARTH This is more than a record of rural Bengal. It looks at the bond between Sayan Biswas and the place that shaped him, even after distance has changed that relationship. ARE THOSE WINDS Along Istanbul’s northern edge, Ci Demi photographs the last water buffalo herders as they keep working, remembering, and staying put while the city closes in. COLORS OF HÜZÜN Through fragments and gestures, Pedro Vidal traces Istanbul as shared melancholy lingers in everyday life, the city unfolding slowly and refusing to settle into a single, definitive understanding. OUT OF PLAY An exploration of abandoned interiors in which Marco Lugli examines how objects, light, and space carry memory beyond human presence, establishing absence as a condition of material continuity rather than loss. REIMAGINING TALIESIN Form gives way to flux in Amy Newton-McConnel’s photographs, where architecture unfolds as a field of shifting relations and perception moves with light, geometry, and time. WHERE THE MUSIC BEGINS Before the strings, Jeevan Akash Jayavarthanan leaves the movement of the street for the rhythm of the workshop, where time holds, hands work, and each moment forms what will later be heard. LAND, LABOR, AND THE GOLDEN FIBER In West Bengal’s jute fields, Rajesh Dhar examines the systems of land and labor, tracing how a single material sustains communities and informs a changing ecological future. WITH GRATITUDE AND DEVOTION A quiet and intimate account of devotion in Zaraza, Venezuela, Rafael Ayala Páez reflects on faith, memory, and community through photographs and words that honor the enduring power of small gestures. SILVER AND BREATH Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. RUPTURE REPAIR REMNANT In this reflection on rupture, Donna Bassin invites us to consider how grief settles into the body and the image, and how the slow work of witnessing becomes a form of repair. DELTA DUSK John Agather weaves image and text into a single current, tracing how music, memory, and daily life continue to move through the Mississippi Delta. SILENT BEAUTY Tamara Quadrelli photographs the world by slowing down inside it. There is no rush to explain what we are seeing. The pleasure comes from staying with it. SOLITUDE UNDER A TECHNIFIED SUN Tracing the space between movement and stillness, Héctor Morón reveals a city that persists as human presence slips by. 4320 MINUTES WITHOUT COLOR Moving between photography and narration, Mohammed Nahi traces a period in which sight could no longer be assumed as reliable, and attention shifted toward memory and duration. THE PAINTED VILLAGE OF LABANDHAR Anjan Ghosh’s photographs carry us to Labandhar, where painting becomes language, tradition stays present, and art grows through shared ground. ORDINARY GRIEF What endures when everything else is uncertain? Through photography, Parisa Azadi asks us to see Iran not as story, but as feeling. THE EVERYMAN Eva Mallis uncovers the quiet strength of overlooked lives, capturing everyday encounters in Mumbai’s industrial districts as intimate portraits of labor and resilience. IN BETWEEN LIFE AND AFTER In Cairo’s City of the Dead, families carve out ordinary lives among centuries of tombs — Paola Ferrarotti traces the fragile line between memory and survival. UNFIGURED Nasos Karabelas transforms the human body into a site of emotional flux — where perception fractures and inner states become visible form. VISIONS OF ICELAND FROM ABOVE Massimo Lupidi takes flight above Iceland — capturing nature’s abstract brushstrokes where land, water, and sky blur into poetic visions beyond the ordinary eye. UNDER THE CLOUDS Giordano Simoncini presents a visual ethnography of the interconnectedness of indigenous cosmology, material life, and the ecological balance within the Quechua communities of the Peruvian Andes. NYC SUBWAY RIDERS BEFORE THE INVASION OF SMARTPHONES Hiroyuki Ito’s subway photographs reveal a vanished intimacy — strangers lost in thought in a world before digital distractions took hold.

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2024 List. 2024 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Anna Tut ALEXANDROS ZILOS Athens GREECE AMY HOROWITZ New York UNITED STATES ANA-MARIA ALB Bukovina ROMANIA ANN PETRUCKEVITCH UNITED KINGDOM ANNA TUT Krasnogorsk City RUSSIA CARMEN SOLANA CIRES Madrid SPAIN CATIA MONTAGNA SCOTLAND/ITALY DASHA DARVAJ UMRIGAR Karachi PAKISTAN DEDIPYA BASAK Kolkata INDIA EDWIN CARUNGAY San Francisco UNITED STATES FRANCE LECLERC Chicago UNITED STATES ISABELLE COORDES Münster GERMANY JOHN KAYACAN Los Angeles UNITED STATES JUSTINE GEORGET Lyon FRANCE MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN New York UNITED STATES MATTHIAS GÖDDE Beckum GERMANY MEI SEVA New York UNITED STATES MIA DEPAOLA Washington D.C UNITED STATES NAZANIN DAVARI Tehran IRAN PAUL COOKLIN UNITED KINGDOM PEDRO VIDAL Barcelona SPAIN RAFA ROJAS São Paulo BRAZIL ROMAIN COUDRIER Marseille FRANCE ROWELL B. TIMOTEO La Union PHILIPPINES SASHA IVANOV St. Petersburg RUSSIA

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2020 List. 2020 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Abbie Briggs ABBIE BRIGGS Madison UNITED STATES ABHAY PATEL Delhi INDIA ABHISHEK SINGH New Delhi INDIA ADAM SINCLAIR Melbourne AUSTRALIA ADESH GAUR Uttar Pradesh INDIA ADRIAN TAN SINGAPORE ADRIAN WHEAR Melbourne AUSTRALIA AHMET HOJAMYRADOV Minsk BELARUS ALEX FRAYNE Adelaide AUSTRALIA ALEXANDRA AVLONITIS Manhattan UNITED STATES ALEXEY STRECHEN Moscow RUSSIA ALICIA HABER Montevideo URAGUAY ANEEKA MANKU Birmingham UNITED KINGDOM ANGEL CARNICER Zaragoza SPAIN ANNA MARCHIOLI Clamart FRANCE ANNETTE LANG Nice FRANCE ANTONIS GIAKOUMAKIS Athens GREECE ANWAR SADAT Nairobi KENYA ARTURO CAÑEDO Lima PERU ASHISH PATEL Delhi INDIA ASSIA STARKE Vienna AUSTRIA ASTRID NEUNDLINGER Vienna AUSTRIA B JANE LEVINE New York City UNITED STATES BELINDA CORNEY London UNITED KINGDOM BENNY VAN DEN BULKE Adegem BELGIUM

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2022 List. 2022 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Adrian Pelegrin ADRIAN PELEGRIN Playa del Carmen MEXICO AHSANUL HAQUE FAHIM Dhaka, BANGLADESH AJ BERNSTEIN New York UNITED STATES ANWAR EHTESHAM Dhaka BANGLADESH ASEN GEORGIEV Sofia BULGARIA ASLI GONEN Eskisehir TURKEY BRIAN DOUGLAS Ontario CANADA CAHLEEN HUDSON New Taipei City TAIWAN CHETAN VERMA Gurgaon INDIA DEAN GOLDBERG New York UNITED STATES ELIZABETH PAOLETTI UNITED STATES EMIR SEVIM Istanbul TURKEY EMY MAIKE Baden Württemberg GERMANY FRANCESCA TIBONI Cagliari ITALY GABRIEL MIELES GUZMÁN Guayaquil ECUADOR GABRIELE GENTILE Parma ITALY GIANLUCA MORTAROTTI London UNITED KINGDOM GIORGIO GERARDI Venice ITALY JAN ENKELMANN London UNITED KINGDOM JEAN ROSS New York UNITED STATES JELISA PETERSON Texas UNITED STATES JENS F. KRUSE Mallorca SPAIN JONAS WELTEN Salzburg AUSTRIA LAINE MULLALLY Stockholm SWEDEN LELE BISSOLI Vercelli ITALY

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2025 List. 2025 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Stephanie Duprie Routh ABDULLA SHINOSE CK Malabar INDIA ALEJANDRO DAVILA Pachuca MEXICO ANTON BOU Montreal CANADA AYANAVA SIL Kolkata INDIA BETTY GOH SINGAPORE BUKU SARKAR Paris FRANCE CYNTHIA KARALLA New York UNITED STATES DAVID GRAY New York UNITED STATES EVA MALLIS New York UNITED STATES FANJA HUBERS Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS FUTURE HACKNEY London UNITED KINGDOM GIORDANO SIMONCINI Rome ITALY GUILLERMO FRANCO Córdoba ARGENTINA HIROYUKI ITO New York UNITED STATES JAY HSU Yilan City TAIWAN KAT PUCHOWSKA Barcelona SPAIN LAETITIA HEISLER Berlin GERMANY LUISA MONTAGNA Parma ITALY MASSIMO LUPIDI ITALY MATTEO BERGAMI Bologna ITALY MEERA NERURKAR Düsseldorf GERMANY NASOS KARABELAS Greece ATHENS NICOLA CAPPELLARI Vicenza ITALY PARISA AZADI IRAN & DUBAI PARVATHI KUMAR New Jersey UNITED STATES

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2021 List. 2021 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Meryl Meisler AGATA LO MONACO Gela ITALY ALAN THEXTON Melbourne AUSTRALIA ALEX RUTHERFORD Surrey UNITED KINGDOM ANDRES GONZALEZ Porto PORTUGAL ANDREW ROVENKO Melbourne AUSTRALIA ANDRÉ LOBÃO London UNITED KINGDOM AURÉLIEN BOMY Nantes FRANCE BARRY BOTTOMLEY London UNITED KINGDOM BASTIAN PETER Basel SWITZERLAND BEN ALLAN London UNITED KINGDOM BETTY MANOUSOS Athens GREECE CAMILLE WHEELER Austin UNITED STATES CARLA HENOUD Beirut LEBANON CAROL DRONSFIELD Brooklyn UNITED STATES CHICHEK BAYRAMLY Baku AZERBAIJAN CHRISTINA SIMONS Melbourne AUSTRALIA DAMIEN GORET Brest FRANCE DANIEL GOLDENBERG Buenos Aires ARGENTINA DANIELA PEREIRA Montevideo URUGUAY DANNY JACKSON Essex UNITED KINGDOM DAVID KUGELMAS New Jersey UNITED STATES DAVID LAWLESS Winnipeg CANADA DAVID SHORTLAND London UNITED KINGDOM DREW KELLEY California UNITED STATES EDUARDO ORTIZ Valparaiso CHILE

Be inspired by the photographers on the 2023 List. 2023 PHOTOGRAPHERS © Ypatia Kornarou AARON RUBINO San Francisco UNITED STATES ALESSANDRO GIUGNI Milan ITALY ALEX GOTTFRIED BONDER Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA AMY NEWTON McCONNEL Arizona UNITED STATES ANASTASIYA PENTYUKHINA Moscow RUSSIA ANDREE THORPE Ontario CANADA BARBARA PEACOCK Portland UNITED STATES BRANDEN MAY Atlanta, UNITED STATES DARREN SACKS London UNITED KINGDOM DOUG WINTER California UNITED STATES ELSA ARRAIS Leiria PORTUGAL FABIO CATANZARO Venice ITALY GILES ISBELL Chiang Mai, THAILAND IDA DI PASQUALE Rome ITALY JAN PONNET Antwerp BELGIUM JAYESH KUMAR SHARMA Varanasi INDIA JEFF ROTHSTEIN New York UNITED STATES JUAN BARTE Madrid SPAIN JUAN SOSTRE California UNITED STATES KONRAD HELLFEUER Görlitz GERMANY LEANNE STAPLES New York UNITED STATES MENA SAMBIASI Madrid SPAIN MONIKA JURGA POLAND NAIMA HALL New York UNITED STATES NSIRIES Bologna ITALY