It was a difficult and demanding year from all points of view. The pandemic has certainly almost canceled the photography jobs but we must go ahead and try to tell some interesting stories anyways, as much as we can. During my period spent in Italy, from July to November, Nature Magazine commissioned me to photograph a unique reality at the Trieste Research Area. Only a few tens of kilometers from my home town, in which I was temporarily. At the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (www.icgeb.org), researcher Federica Benvenuti and her team released her interview for publication in the “Where I work” editorial column of Nature .
In this story, Federica shares her passion for immunology and talks about her research on dendritic cells – which she calls sentinel cells because of their early role in the immune response.
With all the precautions of the moment, and with the minimum necessary equipment, we were able in a short time to take the photos that the magazine had asked us to take.
Photo Editor: Amelia Hennighausen
