Lina Pallotta is an Italian photographer working and living in NYC. She studed "Photojournalism and Documentary Photography" at the International Center of Photography.
In 1989/90 she documented the lives of homeless people leaving in Tompkins Square Park. Some of the work from this project was published in 1998 in the catalogue "I am from Lower East Side".
In 1992 she started to photograph at the Nuyorican Poets Café. The work-in-progress is a chronicle of the "Slam poetry" scene. In 1999 part of the work was published in the catalogue "ImaginAction-poesia in movimento."
Lina has also traveled frequently to Mexico. During her trips, she produced various photo essays: The Day of the Dead, Constantly Crossing (illegal immigrants crossing the Tijuana border), Cantina (low class bar). Since 1994 she has focused on the women working in the maquiladoras at the Mex/USA border. For this project she was awarded a grant, The Catalogue Project 1998 by the New York Foundation for the Arts, to publish "Piedras Negras".
After the 9/11 attack, she began to photograph Afghan women living in the New York area. The essay "My Face - My Story" is included in the book "Women for Afghan Women-Shattering Myths and Claiming The Future," published by Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press in the fall of 2002.
