Today's photography profile features the work of Sarah Benkiran, who I believe is based out of Italy or perhaps nearby there. Here's what Sarah has to say about herself over at her website...

"Since my early childhood years, light, color and memories have been a constant obsession in my life.
I experimented with painting and drawing and I realized that I had no manual talent at all, so photography was the best way to release part of my creative frustrations. I started to take pictures in 2008 with a digital point-and-shoot camera and soon became more and more interested in analog photography. Most of my pictures are taken with simple cameras and non professional film.

"I'm obsessed with dreams, the memory and emotional intelligence, from their aesthetics in human perception till the neurological processes involved in. As a sensitive and nostalgic person I always find my biggest inspiration in art and music, my own feelings, the sky, the surrounding world and the passing strangers, those silent stories that happen in the streets and nobody seems to notice.

"Analyzing through pictures the human psyche, being limitated by my own perception and just other's words and actions, which sadly can't be taken de facto as illustrative of the inner thought; is a challenge doomed to failure, which is not an impediment at all for continuing this obsessive photo album that I want to hopefully accomplish one day.

"My biggest influences? Krzysztof Kie?lowski, specially his movies Trois couleurs: Rouge and La double vie de Véronique, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Miloš Forman's Amadeus, Francis F. Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dario Marianelli, Wojciech Kilar, Dmitri Shostakovich, Serguéi Prokófiev, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maria Callas, Van den Budenmayer, Ennio Morricone, the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Caravaggio, Tiziano Vecellio and Rubens; greek mythology, Salvador Dalí, the photography of Sergey Chilikov, Elliott Erwitt, Vivian Maier and Diane Arbus, the 60s, 70s and 90s, period films and the cities of Gothenburg, Vienna and Amsterdam.

"Writing is my other creative passion, and I normally write when I feel an urgent need to do so, which is totally unpredictable.

"As a curiosity, I was finalist of the 'Lee - Make History' contest on 2010, having my work exhibited in the 'Lee Make History Second Edition Exhibition' at Foro Boario in Modena, Italy.

"I was given the hebrew name of Sarah by the mediterranean sea in 1986, my heart is noble and I am the last of my kind."

Thanks very much, Sarah! Remember, you can stop by her website to see a lot more great images. If you know of a photographer who should be featured here, by all means drop me a line and let me know, to cclapcenter [at] gmail.com.