Born in Rome, she lives in Chicago and has loved animals and photography deeply for as long as she can remember. Her art project was born from the crossing of these two elements. What MoMaz loves to photograph is how time modifies spaces, giving them a completely original form of grace. Her photographs of abandoned places, bring back the concept of imperfect, unusual harmony. In her photographs, humans are absent, but their absence has given other animals a chance to get a peaceful revenge and take back a world that was once theirs. MoMaz's places are abandoned, but never deserted. On the contrary, they are living places, where animals, once sheltered from humans, can live free. Safe at last.
In the last year MoMaz has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, in Detroit and Chicago.
The Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, dedicated from November 2022 to January 2023, a solo exhibition "My house, your house" and her photographs have been selected to participate at Paratissima 2022, a contemporary art exhibition in Turin, Italy.
In the past few months, her two projects, "Visions of Detroit" and "Lost Kingdoms" have achieved important accomplishments:
- Honorable mention and exposition, in December 2023, at the 19th Pollux Awards Exhibition, at the FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona.
- IPA (International Photography Awards) Official Selection and Honorable mention
- Semi-Finalist of the Urban Photo Awards in Trieste and exhibition during the Trieste Photo Days, in October 2023
- 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Honorable mention
- January 1994 to January 1995: Photography course at the Academy of Photography in Pisa, Italy.
- January 2007 to July 2015: Studio Photographer at Maria Teresa Bijoux, snc in Turin. The main tasks were to take professional photos of the product lines and to implement and maintain the company’s web site
- 2022 “Visions of Detroit”, solo exhibition, Troy, Michigan, United States
- 2022 Pop up group exhibition in Art Studio in 2857 W Diversey ave, Chicago, IL
- 2022 “Vermillion”, group exhibition, Northbrook, Illinois, United States
- 2022 International contemporany art exhibition “Paratissima”, Turin, Italy
- November 2022 to January 2023: “My House Your House” solo show at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
- 2023 19th Pollux Awards Exhibition, group exhibition, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2023 TEN by TEN, group exhibition, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, United States
- 2023 Urban Photo Awards, Trieste, Italy
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January 1999 – present
Journalistic scientific collaborations:
- “Tuttoscienze” (La Stampa)
- “Ok, salute”
- “Quark”
- “Newton”
- “Oasis”
- “Videoscienza”
January 1996 – January 2007
Television channels collaborations:
- January 1996 to October 1997: jurnalist at Mediaset R.T.I. headquarters in Rome, Italy, in the programs "Amici Animali" (Rete Quattro) and "Sgarbi Quotidiani" (Canale 5)
- July 1999 to October 1999: Program Assistant at the RAI headquarters in Turin in the program "Ciak animali in scena" (Rai Tre)
- March 2000 to October 2000: Program Assistant at the RAI headquarters in Turin in the program "Il Pianeta delle Meraviglie" (Rai Tre)
- February 2001 to June 2002: Program Director at the RAI headquarters in Turin in the program "Il Pianeta delle Meraviglie" (Rai Tre)
- January 2003 to January 2007: Scientific Consultant at the RAI headquarters in Turin in the programs "Il Pianeta delle Meraviglie" (Rai Tre) and “Timbuctu” (Rai Tre)
Education
- 1993: Ph.D. in Animal Biology (Ethology), University of Pisa (Italy).
- 1990: Master of Arts Degree in Natural Science, University of Turin (Italy).
- 1985: High School Diploma, Liceo Scientifico Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II – Rome (Italy).
Training, Internships and Stages
- 1984: Eastern Kentuky University (USA) - Computer Technology Course
- 1991: The Thetys Institute – Milan (Italy)- Internship on Cetacean census
- 1994: Nato Advanced Institute – Rome (Italy) – Stage “Behavioural Brain Research in Naturalistic and Semi-Naturalistic Settings”
- 2012-2013: Pepe Fotografia, Turin (Italy) - Advanced Photography Course
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Scientific Publications
- Mazzotto M., Cucco M. et Malacarne G., 1995 Cohabitation et ségrégation du Martinet pale (Apus pallidus) et Martinet alpin (Apus melba) dans des colonies melées de la cote méditerranée. Nos Oiseaux. Genèvre
- Mazzotto M., Nacci L. and Gagliardo A., 1999 Homeward orientation of pigeons confined in a circular arena. Behavioural Processes. 46:217-225
- Gagliardo A., Mazzotto M. and Bingman V., 1996 Hippocampal lesion effects on learning strategies in homing pigeons. Proc. Royal Soc. 263:529-534. London
- Gagliardo A., Mazzotto M. and Bingman V., 1997 Piriform cortex ablations block navigational map learning in homing pigeons. Beahvioural Brain Research, 86:143-148
- Gagliardo A., Mazzotto M. and Divac I., 1997 Memory of radial maze behaviour in pigeons after ablation of the presumed equivalent of mammalian prefrontal cortex. Behavioural Neuroscience, Vol.111 No. 5, 955-962
- Symposium acta: Cavallotto L., Mazzotto M. e Giacoma C. Struttura di popolazione di Rana dalmatina. Atti 55° Congresso U.Z.I. 1993
