COVER is a series based on archival photographs of women captured in the act of photographing. These are images that, despite containing the gesture of looking, have historically remained outside the dominant narrative. Starting from these original photographs, I create fictional covers for a non-existent magazine -COVER- transforming them into unique pieces that operate between memory, fiction, and critical reinterpretation.

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The magazine’s subtitle, Who Frames the Story, serves as a statement of intent: who decides what is seen and what is left out? Who constructs the visual narrative of the world? The series questions this historically masculinized authority and proposes a shift in perspective.

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Here, women cease to be objects and become subjects. They no longer occupy the secondary role of “cover”-as a substitute, a support, or an invisible presence- but instead take the cover, the center stage, and the voice. The semantic play in the title activates this tension: from being covered to occupying the cover.

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With an aesthetic that dialogues with 1950s magazines, the series employs a strategy of visual seduction to introduce a contemporary critical reading. The result is a body of images that operates on two levels: the first, attractive and familiar; the second, deeper, prompting reflection on the construction of the gaze and the place of women in the history of images.

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COVER does not simply revisit the past, it rewrites it. And in doing so, it opens up an essential question: what happens when women not only appear in the image, but also define its frame?