Cristina Ferraiuolo

Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri Spagnoli
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Rione Sanità, Francesca
Year: 2002

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Rione Traiano
Year: 2005

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli,Piazza Mercato, Rodeo
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Porta Nolana, Patrizia
Year: 2017

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri spagnoli, Street Butterflies
Year: 2002

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Rione Sanità, Enzina
Year: 2017

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Michelina e Marcella, 2005

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri spagnoli/Mercato
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Piazza Mercato, Checca
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri spagnoli, Ornella
Year: 2014

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Rione Sanità
Year: 2017

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri Spagnoli
Year: 2017

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Piazza Mercato, Angela
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli,Piazza Mercato, Butterflies
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print on baryta paper
Fomabrom Variant 111

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Rione Sanità
Year: 2015

Silver gelatin print
on Ilford Warmtone paper

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Sanità, Butterflies
Year: 2014

Silver gelatin print
on Ilford Warmtone paper

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri Spagnoli
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print
on Ilford Warmtone paper

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri Spagnoli
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print
on Ilford Warmtone paper

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Rione Sanità, Titti
Year: 2002

Vintage gelatin silver print
on Agfa paper

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Quartieri Spagnoli
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print
on Ilford Warmtone paper

Size: 18 x 24 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Sanità, Luisella
Year: 2005

Vintage gelatin silver print
on Agfa paper

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Pallonetto
Year: 2002

Vintage gelatin silver print
on Agfa paper

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Sanità, Luisella
Year: 2005

Vintage gelatin silver print
on Agfa paper

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Sanità, Patrizia e Enzina
Year: 2005

Vintage gelatin silver print
on Agfa paper

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Mercato
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print
on Ilford Warmtone paper

Size 24 x 30 cm

Edition: 9 + 1 AP
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Stone butterfly
Napoli, Lungomare
Year: 2016

Silver gelatin print
on Ilford Warmtone paper

Size 24 x 30 cm

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Andamento lento

Images Michael Ackerman Morten Andersen Luca Anzani Martin Bogren Lorenzo Castore Cristina Ferraiuolo Adam Grossman Cohen Richard Pak

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Born in Naples in 1967.
Graduated in Economics, she worked as a fiscal consultant from 1990 till 2002. Since 2000 she dedicated herself more and more to photography, her great passion, which she practised in an amateur way since her childhood. In 2001 she began to collaborate with Toscana Photographic Workshop, working as an assistant to many Italian and foreign photographers. She realized personal projects in Naples, Havana, Paris, Buenos Aires, with particular attention to social issues.
Among her first projects, Every Thursday, a photographic work on the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Member of the association Obiettivo Granieri from 2005 to 2012, she curated cultural events, workshops and photographic exhibitions, including, for FotoGrafia Festival in Rome, I bought me a cat, a group show of fifty female photographers from different countries around the world, Taliannu taliannu, The joy of seeing beyond the visible, solo exhibition of Evgen Bavcar, the blind Slovenian photographer.
In 2013 she made a documentary short film, Rosa, selected at Bif&st 2014, at Arcipelago Rome 2014, winner of the prize for best screenplay at the Festival I corti sul lettino, Naples 2014.
She published in several newspapers and magazines, including Le Monde, Libération, L’Equipe magazine, Haaretz, Photograph mag, Gente di fotografia and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Naples, Rome, Milan.
In November 2018 she published her first book Stone butterfly, a long-term personal project, with the Swedish publisher Gösta Flemming, Journal, presented at Polycopies, during Paris Photo 2018.

STONE BUTTERFLY

Set against the background of Cristina Ferraiuolo’s home town, Naples, and shot over the course of many years, this black and white project presents street photography at its best. STONE BUTTERFLY shows teenage girls – both strong and tender – speeding on their scooters through the streets of the old city of stone with its decadent beauty, almost like daughters of the final scene in Fellini’s Roma.