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Pippa Samaya is a Antwerpen/Melbourne based photographer/film-maker with two overlapping specialisations of practice: dance/movement, humanitarian documentary. and lifestyle.
Awards include two-time winner of the International 60 Second Dance Film Competition (Denmark/Finland), Two time winner of an Australian Dance Award for Excellence in Dance on Film, double win at the SALON exhibit at CCP (AU), Best Film at FAD Film Festival (US), The Berlin motion picture festival (DE), the International portrait film festival(BUL), Best Music Video at the NIMA awards(AU), finalist in the National Photography Prize(AU), the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, The Association of Photographers(AOP) (UK) awards and IRIS portraiture prize (PCP).
Pippa’s humanitarian documentary work evolved from several years traveling with NGO One Voice to remote villages in India and Nicaragua, and a Syrian Refugee camp in Greece, documenting human experience and connection through co-creation. Since moving to Berlin in 2019, Pippa has worked for the International Womens Space, as their documentary filmmaker, working with refugee and immigrant women. Her most recent work includes a dance film and live performance in collaboration with performer Tara Jade Samaya, presented by the Staatsballet at the Komischer Oper.
"With an insatiable curiosity for the complexities of the human experience, my artist path turned instinctually towards the world of portraiture and humanitarian documentary. Later, a specialisation in dance photography stemmed from the discovery that dancers provided a deeply empathetic physical vessel, which enabled me to communicate through external imagery the internal world of the human psyche. While colour, design and hints of surrealism are pillars in my work, what really fascinates me is finding new ways to create experiences for people, help them strip away their defence layers, let go, connect with the present moment and the world surrounding them to capture and share something truly raw and human."
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