Watermelons Are Not Strawberries - Sandra Bacchi
Watermelons Are Not Strawberries - Sandra Bacchi
What can be more inspiring and resilient than listening to a five-year-old girl who spent her life until then struggling with severe multiple food allergies, saying that when she couldn’t eat strawberries, she pretended that watermelons were strawberries? Moments like this kept Sandra Bacchi strong and positive while facing the shadows that came to the surface when she became a mother.
Watermelons Are Not Strawberries is a photographic memoir about the ups and downs of parenting and the surprising lessons about acceptance and healing we can learn from our children. The visual experience of moving from chaos to clarity is both vulnerable and relatable, giving the viewer a window into what it means to find peace and a little bit of hope.
Released August 2022
Photographs by Sandra Bacchi
Essay by Sarah Kennel
Hardcover, 10 x 8 inches
144 pages
Edition of 500
ISBN: 978-1-949608-21-2
Trade Edition: $50.00
Available for pre-order
About Sandra Bacchi
Sandra Bacchi is a Brazilian-American visual artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. She blends documentary and conceptual photography, video, and glass to weave together truth and fiction through open-ended storytelling. Bacchi focuses on how human beings interact and find common ground.
Bacchi's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published in contemporary photography magazines and zines. Her photographs were part of exhibitions at the Carlson Gallery of Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography, and Houston Center for Photography, among others. A solo exhibition of Watermelons Are Not Strawberries opens in September 2022 at the Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh.
Bacchi was an artist in residence at the Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) from 2019-2020, joining PGC's board of directors immediately after. In addition, she is a Photolucida Critical Mass 2021 top 200 finalist, a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and an artist-in-residence at the 2022-2023 Distillery residency Program at Brew House Association, Pittsburgh.