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Francesca Tosarelli is a freelance photographer born in 1984. After a childhood spent in a wild and rural Brazil she developed a passion for travels and the narration through the visual language of photography. Emotionally and politically she is close to social photography and reportage. She has a degree in History of Arts with a thesis about Letizia Battaglia, and enrolled in a photography Master at CFP Bauer in Milan.
She then worked for almost one year with Shobha, a Contrasto reporter. Now she is based in London, where she explores the photojournalistic
sphere, and she works in Italy as a photographer for “Pixel” magazine, Ugf.

The rebirth of Coney Island
Coney Island is a legendary place by the seaside, an hour from Manhattan.
At the beginning of the last century this place was called “Sodom by the sea” for its fame to be the base of  backers, and of eccentric and extravagant people.
Known for the old fun-fair “Luna Park”, Coney Island was an attraction for its bizzarre shows. In the last years everything changed and the whole area was restructured. The first week of June 2010 saw the opening of the new Luna Park, which became once again a cheap meeting place especially for black and hispanic working classes.
Coney island still beholds a peculiar and extraordinary charm, and is still lived by “contemporary freaks”.

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