Alina Renditiso was born in Naples in Italy in 1956. She studied philosophy at Bologna University and wrote a thesis on the diaries of the feminist icon Anais Nin. Bologna remained her home, while she worked as a librarian at the university’s age-old library working with information literacy and librarian training. In 1984 she also had a five year stint in Luanda, Angola working in Africa for the United Nations.

 

Alina is an avid traveler and explorer of the world’s cultures, people and places in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, returning again and again to places that have touched her heart in Brazil and Greece.

 

Alina has always been a photographer, and she is always with her camera, observing and recording, whether she is walking in the rolling hills of Italy or the white-washed alleyways of Greek villages, or a crowded market in India. Her approach to photography is adventurous and experiential; capturing what unfolds before her eyes as she moves through the world. While this site is organized by subject for the purpose of clarity, Alina's method is less linear or specific by subject. 

 

Before the advent of digital photography she created hundreds of photographic albums, each weaving a narrative that tells the story of the people and places where she has traveled. 

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