Contacts is a series of photographic works, which explore human interaction and communication. A pictorial journey, documenting, with total candour, people’s daily lives and the contact they experience with others. In this work, the artist endeavours to explore the fundaments of life such as faith, love and friendship. Each piece comprises a series of personal stories, which become interwoven through location and circumstance. The artist uses the contact sheet to frame them within a clear-cut, linear narrative, expanding and embellishing on the informal, content-driven aesthetic of the snapshot. She helps us to decipher these stories with the inclusion of inanimate objects, giving us the context and allowing us to develop our interpretations. We deduce their meaning by observing the way that people communicate and connect with each other through body language and their facial expressions. Studying the different behaviours towards strangers and friends, by observing other people and their lives and comparing them to ourselves we are able to understand our own lives and make sense of the world around us.

Yvonne De Rosa was born in Naples in 1975. She earned a Degree Plus Distinction at “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy, and a PG Cert. in photography at Central St. Martin’s, University of London. De Rosa’s photographs have been exhibited with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London, Glasgow, Wimbledon, and New York, and are part of the private collection of Arco in Madrid. In late 2005, her work was showcased as part of “One Gallery, One Night, One Chance: Emerging Women In Photography,” sponsored by Kodak and Women in Photography International. De Rosa lives and works in London as a freelance  photographer.