Benedetta Ristori

From the ongoing series "Lay Off".
Kyoto, Japan 2015

From the ongoing series "Lay Off".
Kyoto, Japan, January 2015

From the ongoing series "Lay Off".
Okayama, Japan, January 2015

From the ongoing series "Lay Off".
Tokyo, Japan, January 2015

From the ongoing series "Lay Off".
Kyoto, Japan, August 2016

Lay Off

In recent times many states have proceeded with a reshaping of working, intensifying the pace to cope with economic crisis due to the massive competition of the international markets. We are seeing a considerable increase in shifts of night work that is gradually coming to be one of the most profitable among producing and conditions of employment of labor. This mode of shift work, once the preserve of industrial sectors, is instead now spreading significantly also in the service sectors, in areas such as communications, the operators of call center and operators selling to the public, characteristics of the “global village” that no longer differences between day and night.

Shift work, even at night and on holidays, now covers more than eight million workers targeted, often, of psycho-physical due to the continuous change between the “biological clock” that marks the rhythm of the body, following the natural alternation of day and night, and the requirements imposed by the “society of work” that does not recognize these natural alternations (social jet lag). The intention of this project, is to spy the life of these workers, showing the characteristic that, in most cases, distinguishes them: loneliness. The project is still ongoing.

Benedetta Ristori

Benedetta Ristori is a freelance photographer currently based in Rome,Italy. Her work is focus on the tension that exists between a form – such as a human head or a square – and the space which it both occupies and is contained by. Crucial concepts of her stylistic research: decadence, abandonment, emptiness and new approach to classic beauty. In 2015 Benedetta is one of the finalist of the ‘Next Photographer Award’ by D&AD in partnership with Getty Images. In 2016 one photo from “Lay Off” is the winner of the People category in the 16th Smithsonian Magazine photo contest. The same year her project “Lay Off” is published on Vogue Italia online.The series ‘East’ is published on It’s Nice That, Freunde Von Freunden, The Space Magazine, The Calvert Journal and Vice Italy. In 2017 is one of the 100 creatives chosen to represent the Lazio region in the enterprise “Lazio Creativo 2017”.