Elisabetta Xsavar is an Italian photographer working with the nude in relation to nature, animals and the human condition. Born in Italy, of Sicilian origin, she studied pictorial decoration at the Academies of Fine Arts in Padua, Venice and Catania. She is a versatile artist: she plays three instruments, composes music, draws, creates, and writes stories and poems.

Her passions lead her to move between many different cities and realities, especially in Italy, a land she loves very much.

Since childhood she has been particularly attracted to photography. She leaves home very young and, after an adventurous and tormented youth, moves to the Dolomites to stay away from the chaos of the cities and closer to nature and meditation.

She finds work as a photojournalist for a well-known newspaper in the Alps and decides to devote herself completely to photography. Already an animal lover and an activist against vivisection, she enters an intensive farm for the first time, and the sight of so much pain and violence brings her a deep existential crisis and a crisis of conscience.

That same day she decides to follow a vegan diet and to improve her lifestyle.

Among her projects: Naked Like Animals, a decade-long series in which the human body appears alongside animals rescued from intensive farming, vivisection and exploitation, and Italian Vegan Men (2015–2017), a photographic project and book on the male nude with non-professional models.