Federica Dall'Orso is an Italian photographer currently living and working in New York City. She moved to New York five years ago and she found in the big apple her new home. Federica's work got published in Vogue, Elle, W Magazine, L'Officiel, La Repubblica and may more magazines. In 2014 thanks to the collaboration with the artist Frankie Celenza she has been nominated for a New York Emmy Award as Photographer and Videographer.

Federica has been shooting for fashion week runway shows and she is also a strong dance and street style photographer. Her work includes collaborations on films and music video as backstage photographer. Influenced by New York and the fashion world, Federica's photographic style reflects also her unique vision of the everyday life in the city, her way to use the natural light in very impressive.

Federica is currently exhibiting her latest photo project "Street Stage" in Italy at the Teatro Cantero in Chiavari and a second exhibition will take place in New York at the Soam Studio starting the 4th of September.

What's 'Street Stage'?

'Street Stage' is an ongoing series of photographs featuring dancers in the raw and urban landscape of the city. Street Stage started because of her love for dance and the New York streets.

With this collection Federica wants to share a new perspective of dance photography where the focus is not the dancing and the technique but the ballerinas feelings and emotions.

She decided to take the dancers out of their comfort zone so instead of shooting in the photo studio she used New York as the background creating a unique contrast between the beauty of the dancers and the electric streets.

New York is a magnet for creativity and shooting the dancers outdoor made easier to show and free a more personal side of their dancing.