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(b. 1984) graduated in Film Direction and Production
at the International Academy of Audiovisual Sciences CISA Pio Bordoni (Lugano -
Swiss). His photographic series have been exposed, among the others, at
Aperture Foundation (Usa - NY), SK Stiftung Kultur (Germany - Cologne),
Fotografia Europea (Italy – Reggio Emilia), Triennale (Italy – Milano). His
work has been shown, among the others, at International Locarno Film Festival,
Solothurner Filmmtage. He publishes, with the publishing house Skinnerboox, the
books “The Mecca of Coney Island” (2014), “Diary of an Italian Borderworker”
(2016); with the publishing house Witty Books the book “Radici” (2018; Awarded
for the Unveil’d Photobook Award).
Galleries & Representation
Galerie Kernweine
Stuttgart (Germany)
Solo Exhibitions
2020- RADICI
Jest - Italy // Torino
2018- RADICI
Galerie Kernweine - Germany // Stuttgart
Select Group Exhibitions
2019
- FUTURE SHOCK
Fonderia Napoleonica - Milan // Italy
- POSTMODERNISM
CNAC-LAB - Tokyo // Japan
- FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA
Chiostri di San Domenico - Italy // Reggio Emilia
2018 - LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL
Sweden // Landskrona
- RE:21 THIS IS NOT HERE
Pfizer Building - U.S.A. // New York
- SKG BRIDGES FESTIVAL
Greece // Thessaloniki
2017
- ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL
Benaki Museum - Greece // Athens
- PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI
Villa Brandolini - Italy // Treviso
- IL DESERTO ROSSO
Die Photograpiche Sammlung /SK Stiftung Kultur - Germany // Cologne
- 10*10 FESTIVAL
Santa Maria Convent - Italy //Gonzaga
2016
- URBAN LAYERS
La Triennale - Italy // Milan
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography - Greece // Thessaloniki
Bitume Photofest - Italy // Lecce
- RED DESERT NOW!
Linea di Confine - Italy // Rubiera
- T14 - MODUS OPERANDI
Spazio Ex-Fornace - Italy // Milano
- PHOTOBOOK MELBOURNE
PBM Gallery - Australia // Melbourne
- ABITARE IL DESERTO - OSSERVATORIO FOTOGRAFICO
Museo San Rocco - Italy // Fusignano
2015
- APERTURE SUMMER OPEN
Aperture Foundation - U.S.A. // New York
- PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI
Villa Brandolini - Italy // Treviso
- FOREBODING
TM 51 Gallery - Norway // Oslo
- SONO STATO QUI
Iuav - Italy // Venezia
- OF THE AFTERNOON
Doomed Galery - U.K. // London
Awards
- Unveild Unveil’d Photobook Award (2019)
Shortlist
- Premio Francesco Fabbri 2017 (& 2015) - Italy
- Premio Graziadei 2015 Macro Roma - Honorable Mention - Italy
- Encontros da Imagem 2015 - Portfolio Award - Portugal
- Images Vevey 2015 - Switzerland
Interviews & Features
- On paper: Financial Times; Aperture; Harper’s Magazine; British Journal of Photography; Revista Balam; Rivista Undici; Studio; Splash & Grab; Der Greif; Il Fotografo; Flash Art Italia; Still Magazine...
- Web: Fotografia Magazine, GUP Magazine, Humboldt Books, Landscape Stories, Thisispaper, Life Framer, Urbanautica, Ignant, Documentary Platform, Paper Journal, Yet Magazine,The Latent Image, Aint Bad Magazine, Mossfull, Darwin Magazine, Phases Magazine...
Other publications
-”Red Desert Now!” // Linea di Confine (2017 Italy/Germany)
Residencies & Fellowships
2015
- Rural Layers
Bitume PhotoFest
Italy // Gallipoli
Screenplay
- I Campioni di Coney Island (Kings of Coney Island - 2014)
Autore del soggetto e prima sceneggiatura. Il soggetto è vincitore del primo premio allo sviluppo per Piemonte Film Commission. Finalista al Premio Solinas “Documetario per il Cinema” 2013
- Confini (2011)
Coautore con Marco Morana e Federico Gnesini. Tutors Franco Bernini e Linda Ferri. Selezionato da Mediterranean Film Institute, con il progetto lungometraggio “Confini”, workshop avanzato di sceneggiatura (MEDIA; Greece)
Completed
- Confini (2011; documentary; 29’).
Tra Festival presso 47. Solothurner Filmtage
- Fratelli (2010; shortmovie; 24’)
Tra i Festival presso il 63. International Locarno Film Festival (Pardi di Domani)
Teaching
2011 // 2015
- Teacher, Project Tutor
Screenplay,Filming,Editing,Postproduction
International Academy of
Audiovisual Sciences of Lugano (Switzerland).