Forty Plus documents and conceptualises feminine sensuality above forty years old. Paradoxically, in the western society, the more a woman grows old and confident, the more she disappears in any kind of representation. While being in full possession of their body and its capacities, liberated from their upbringing and from the expectations of a patriarchal society, forty plus women remain too often hidden, forgotten as if they become transparent, invisible while they are on of the pillars of society.

Forty Plus is a delicate visual journey through the author's intime wardrobe mixed with botanical elements as a metaphoric representation of the feminine gaze.

This series is an ode to feminity and sensuality, an invitation to see and embrace beauty in all its manifestation and imperfection, a lullaby to sing the incredible feeling of freedom and inner power that we reach in what can be considered the middle life.

Images from the series were selected to be part of the Official Selection at the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022

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I've been looking for you, in every room and every corner but you were not there anymore. Bread was on table, shutters were not closed, your clothes were still in the wardrobe. I've been searching for you, I've called you, I've been quiet in order to hear your voice, I've walked my hands to find your soft skin and it is in the afternoon light that I found you. I see you now, in the embroidered flowers of the curtains, in a flamboyant bouquet, in the Sunday's evening melancholy.

Oh les beaux jours is an ode to life and beauty that despite death, silence and solitude make a poetic souvenir.

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Hemicrania-Disambiguation is an ode to pain and relief and our ability as human beings to sublime what life makes us endure. I used flowers as a symbol of resilience and of the immense beauty that Nature offers us to contemplate.

Hemicrania-Disambiguation is series that includes twenty-four photographs and has won the silver medal at Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2020. If you are interested to see and know more about this work, please send me a message.

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A Landscape of Teenagehood

As a mother, witnessing the transition from childhood to adolescence is just as much enchanting as it is frightening. So many things change in so little time. The body deploys itself like a separate entity. Mood swings and battles to find a fragile balance between the soft comfort of childhood and the affirmation of the future adult.

I stand still and watch.

I see my child go away and come back. I read the doubts in the curves of his back, I feel the fears on the grain of his skin, I hear the questions on his closed eyes.

Distance appears.

I have to let him g(r)o(w).

This series is a lullaby, a soft melody to embrace and cover him with light. A delicate flower put on his shoulder that silently says, I am here. You are not alone.

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Border: a line separating two countries, administrative divisions, or other areas.

Fence: -origin: shortening of defense,14ec, action of defending, resistance; means of protection, fortification

- a barrier, railing, or other upright structure enclosing an area of ground to prevent or control access or escape.

In 2018 a caravan of migrants mostly from Honduras, left their country and walked as a one group towards the United States of America. There were men, women, children, all ages. They were walking with the same determination, were all animated by the same desperate strength that vibrates in those who have nothing to lose. They were coming closer and closer to the border between Mexico and North America. One line, one wall, one fence. Two possible futures. How absurd is this? How arbitrary one line drawn on a map could decide your living condition, your health, or your future and life?

Back in her backyard, looking outside, Rey saw them there too. Fences, hedges, everywhere. Her tiny garden was surrounded by fancy borders and as far as she could see there were borders everywhere in her neighbourhood. It made Rey wondered how did it come to the point that human beings think they own a piece of earth, that they cut, transform, adjust, adapt and modify as long as their willpower and money can allow them.

In this series, a natural state of fences has been recreated by adding to trees and hedges cut flowers but also sometimes synthetic materials as they now belong to the urban western natural landscape. Doing this Carole Rey wanted to create something artificial that looks completely natural and familiar with the aim to confront and question the viewer with his/her own perception of nature and eventually of border and what it does to human interaction.

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Metamorphosis is a story in words and images about falling, standing, dancing, falling again and getting up again and again more determined than ever. It is a story whispered and shouted in day light, between two petals and in Nature’s heart beat.

Metamorphosis is sold in a limited edition of 150 copies.