Every Nun Day

The community of the “Holy hearts of Jesus and Mary” -also knew as Sisters Ravasco House for the name of its founder- has one of its main headquarters in Rome. The congregation is composed of at least twenty nuns with different ages and nationalities. The main purpose of this on-going project is to depict an intimate portrait of the daily life inside and outside the Roman Convent. Generally, little information is known about nuns’ routine and outsiders usually idealise or mystify ecclesiastic life.

Valeria Luongo

Valeria Luongo (1989) is an anthropologist and photographer born in Rome. Since 2012 she has travelled several times to Mexico, country on which she has focused her studies and fieldwork. She is now studying a MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester.