Alexa Mazarello
Captured by Pano Media
Having Three Hearts
In this talk, Alexa Mazarello shares how her life and work are shaped by three overlapping forces: work, motherhood, and art.
She traces a non-linear path from public health and government work to photography, showing how early interests in care, systems, and lived experience quietly followed her into creative practice. Becoming a mother shifts everything. Alexa speaks honestly about building a freelance career without real maternity leave, working through exhaustion, and learning to adapt her practice to real life.
The talk moves into how motherhood reshaped her photography, from editorial work to building a family-focused practice designed to feel calm, quick, and human. It then opens into her art practice, where community becomes essential. Through collectives and residencies built for artist parents, Alexa finds space to make work that addresses birth, trauma, and what has been left out of visual culture.
At its core, this talk is about letting your layers coexist, trusting what keeps resurfacing, and going deeper into the parts of your story that once felt inconvenient or out of place.
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