Studio project

OSS Care Work

A Flavia and Matteo collaboration about care, training, hospital work, and the shortage of nursing staff in Italy.

Care-work themed figure holding a white rose from the OSS care-work collection

Care appears here as symbol, atmosphere, and public attention rather than documentary portraiture.

Story

Care work and image-making

Portrait, corridor, and symbolic calm shape this project. It connects Flavia's experience studying and becoming certified as an OSS, operatore socio sanitario, with Matteo's image-making process. The central OSS portrait is an invented depiction of Flavia, not a real photograph.

The works invite care workers, families, cultural groups, and health-care communities to see hospital labor as human, emotional, and worthy of attention.

Read the studio note about how this project began

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After OSS Care Work

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