Toronto photographer and mixed media artist Stefania Aloise bursts onto the local art scene in 2005 with a solo photo exhibit titled Player. Inspired by one of William Shakespeare's most tragic characters, Ophelia, Player, is a visual poem that explores the theme of unrequited love.

The young artist graduated in 2003 with a BFA in Photographic Studies from Ryerson University. Since then she has participated in a number of solo and group shows, and is constantly creating new bodies of work in the fields of fine art and documentary photography. Aloise's Style varies from straight photography to digital mixed media, but all her work shares a common thread by revealing different aspects of human nature.

Stefania Aloise is a seasoned traveller and has lent her skills to charitable organizations worldwide, in order to promote humanitarian causes. Such work includes a stint as a volunteer photographer for The Vatican City's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 2004.

Constantly re-inventing herself and bent on exploiting her knowledge of mixed media, Aloise's latest body of work, titled Letters, mixes email correspondence and layered images, scanned from old negatives, to create deeply evocative stories. Taken over the period of the artist's adolescence to present day, and presented in non-sequential order as a series of stand-alone photos. Aloise's larger-than-life canvases illustrate the closeness we share with our surroundings and the imprints others leave on us. Culled from the scattered ambers of past relationships, this collection acts as a series of windows and mirrors to our collective consciousness.