Xu Xiaowei

Is a renowned Chinese photographer whose surreal, layered visual language blends documentary precision with poetic imagination. Exploring the tensions between tradition and modernity, memory and reality, his work transforms everyday scenes into evocative images that reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary.

He has exhibited extensively in China and Hong Kong through solo and group exhibitions, including Trace, Spacing Memories, and Map of a Wandering Mind. His work has also been featured in prestigious invitational exhibitions such as Growth at the Long Museum in Shanghai and Flourishing – Vanishing at Maison Wave, establishing him as one of the leading voices in contemporary Chinese photography.

August Quinn

Born in 1999 in New York, is a painter and multidisciplinary artist whose practice reflects a generation shaped by the early years of the internet, underground culture, and a highly stylized media landscape.

He studied Painting at Central Saint Martins in London before earning a Bachelor’s degree in Media Arts, specializing in 3D Animation, from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver.

His artworks and animation projects are produced through Quinn Vision, the independent media company he founded in 2022. Drawing equally from underground and mainstream culture, Quinn’s work exists at the intersection of personal memory and the collective history of post-internet pop culture.

Gregg Segal

Has an interdisciplinary background in photography, film, writing, and education.

His photographic work has received recognition from leading international institutions and competitions, including American Photography, LensCulture, and the Magnum Photography Awards, and has been featured in publications such as “TIME”, “National Geographic”, “Smithsonian”, and “Le Monde”.

In 2019, he published his first monograph, Daily Bread, a project exploring food cultures and culinary traditions around the world.
His work has been exhibited in museums, festivals, and cultural institutions across Europe and the United States, reflecting a practice that brings together documentary photography, cultural identity, and visual storytelling.

Lisa Sorgini

Is an Italian-Australian artist whose photographic practice explores themes of motherhood, care, memory, and family relationships.

Exhibited internationally, she presented The Bushfire, the Flood at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2025.

Her work is part of the Hermès Contemporary Photography Collection and has been featured in publications including “The New Yorker”, “TIME”, “The New York Times”, and “The Guardian”.

She has also received significant recognition, including nominations for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and the National Portrait Prize.

Anh Nguyen

Is a Vietnamese photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.

Her work explores the transformation of cultures beyond their places of origin, with a particular focus on food rituals and Vietnamese traditions.

She holds a degree in Photojournalism from Boston University and completed the Documentary and Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography in 2024.

Among the honors she has received are the New York Times Opinion Photo Editing Fellowship (2026–2027), the Magnum Foundation NYC Fellowship, the Aperture x Google Creator Labs Fund, and the British Journal of Photography OpenWalls Photography Award.

Claire Rosen

Is an award-winning artist who creates visionary photographs inspired by the intersection of art, history, and nature.
Through fantastical settings and the presence of live animals, her work encourages reflection on themes of environmental conservation.

Her photographs have been featured in leading international publications, including “National Geographic”, “Smithsonian Magazine”, and “The Washington Post”.

In addition to her artistic practice, she is an author, educator, and Creative Director of Warwick Furnace Farm, where she lives and develops artistic projects and artist residency programs.

Giuliana Cunéaz

Vincenzo Agnetti

Born in Milan in 1926, he trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and, already in the 1950s, began shaping his artistic path by combining painting with an intense activity of critical writing and theory. From 1960 onward, his research moved toward conceptual art, developing a practice that spanned language, painting, performance, and installation.

His first major exhibition took place in 1967 at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara; the following year he presented the celebrated Macchina drogata, a provocative work that replaces numbers with letters of the alphabet in order to challenge the structures of language. In the years that followed, he collaborated with artists from the Italian scene such as Colombo, Scheggi, and Parmiggiani. In 1975, he worked with Robert Feldman and held his first exhibition in the United States.

His work has continued to be presented in major international contexts: in 1977 he took part in Mental Installation at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and in 1978 he published the poetry volume Machiavelli 30. In the final years of his career, he produced the Photo-Graffi series (1979–1981), works in which poetry and style intertwine through interventions on treated photographic paper.

Vincenzo Agnetti died in Milan in 1981. Today his works are preserved and displayed in major institutions, including GAM in Milan, MART in Rovereto, MoMA in New York, and MOCA in Los Angeles.

Giacomo Costa

Born in Florence in 1970, he began his photographic research in the early 1990s, initially focusing on mountain landscapes. From 1996 onward, his work evolved toward an experimental practice combining traditional photography with digital technologies, giving rise to a personal and immediately recognizable visual language.

After his first solo exhibition in 1997, he took part in the Rome Quadriennale and went on to exhibit at major international institutions and events, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Venice Art Biennale, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Leopold Museum in Vienna, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brisbane. His works are represented by international galleries. He currently lives and works between Florence and Catanzaro, where he teaches “New Technologies for Art” at the Academy of Fine Arts.

She is a photographer and researcher originally from Cochabamba, Bolivia. She uses her camera to explore the tension between truth and fiction, the deep connection between what an image creates and the (sur)real from which it originates. Driven by research projects and personal initiatives, she seeks to deconstruct traditional models of representation and weave nuanced narratives with multiple layers of meaning.

At the heart of her artistic practice lies the exploration of the human being. Marisol is driven by a desire to build authentic connections with the people on the other side of the lens, capturing the intimacy of shared experiences, the tenderness or friction of mutual recognition.

Embracing the horizontality of images, she uses a variety of visual languages to tell stories that cross the boundaries between individual experience, collective memory and imagination. Rooted in the landscapes and folklore of her culture, Marisol’s work oscillates between the spontaneous and the constructed, the naturalistic and the mythical. Her intent is to challenge preconceptions, stimulate dialogue and invite the viewer to reconsider their perception of reality and representation.

Izabela Jurcewicz

Through photography, Izabela Jurcewicz explores themes related to identity, the body, memory, and health. She received the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Award in 2021 (ICP) and the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents in 2020 (Luma Arles & ENSP), and has been a finalist or awardee in several international competitions. Her work has been exhibited in over 30 shows, including at the International Center of Photography, ClampArt, RISD Museum, and in a collateral exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale. She has participated in festivals such as Unseen Amsterdam, Month of Photography Bratislava, TIFF Festival, Fotofestival Łódź, and the Biennale of Photography in Poznań. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts and has been featured by institutions and publications including ICP, Luma Arles, Lenscratch, It’s Nice That, Fisheye, and Saatchi Art. Her first photobook, Body as a Negative, was published by Yoffy Press in 2022. She has lectured at venues such as the Griffin Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Lives and makes art in rural central Maine. Pia-Paulina Guilmoth is a working class trans woman who lives with her girlfriend and two cats. In her free time she likes to lay in the dirt, hold her friends, shoot guns, and trespass into abandoned houses and barns. The artist’s work is foremost about harnessing beauty as a form of resistance to a world full of terrors. Pia released her third book in November 2024 with Stanley/Barker titled Flowers Drink the River. Between 2024 and 2025 she has two major solo exhibitions open in London, and New York City with CLAMP Gallery, and Webber Gallery. In 2024 she won a Google/Aperture Creator Labs grant, and a Peter Reed Foundation grant in photography. In 2022 she was a MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts. From 2018 to 2021 she was the winner of the Fujifilm Young Talent Award, a Mass Cultural Council fellow in photography, and a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize. In 2021 she released her second monograph with Stanley/Barker.

Originally from Alexandria, Mohamed has lived in Pembrokeshire since 2007, graduating with a 1st class honors degree in Photography from Carmarthen School of Art in 2016, and then a Master’s in Documentary Photography with Distinction at the University of South Wales in 2023. In recent years, Hassan’s work has been included in several prestigious group exhibitions, including: Facing Britain: British documentary photography since the 1960s curated by Ralph Goertz (multiple venues across Europe, 2021-2023), Many Voices, One Nation, curated by Ffotogallery and the Senedd (multiple venues across Wales, 2019-2020) His work has also recently been acquired by the National Museum of Wales, National Library of Wales, Government Art Collection, Glynn Vivian Gallery, and Historic England.

The collective was founded in 2009 from the meeting of Fabio Di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli, united by an artistic vision that explores the balance between nature and technology, between the rigor of order and the unpredictability of chance. Their work unfolds along the fine line between the organic and the artificial, generating immersive installations and performances in which sound, light, and movement become central elements of a visual and sensory narrative. With a poetic and experimental approach, Quiet Ensemble draws attention to what usually escapes sight and hearing: the rustling of leaves, the flutter of an insect’s wings, the silent rhythm that animates ecosystems. Their works engage in dialogue with the environment, revealing the hidden beauty of everyday microevents and transforming the ordinary into an unexpected and captivating perceptual experience.

He is a 1997-born artist based in Rotterdam, primarily working with photography. His work explores individual and collective memory through images, family archives, and various media, combining traditional materials with technologies such as AI. He investigates the intergenerational transmission of emotions—particularly among men—and the idealized construction of family memories. A summa cum laude graduate of the Willem de Kooning Academy (2021), he has published three books and exhibited internationally. Named a “Rising Star” by the Dutch newspaper NRC, he is part of the Foam Talent program for 2024–2025. His works are held in major public and private collections

Is a visual storyteller whose work explores human behavior and our complex relationship with the natural world. Her photography examines themes of womanhood, identity, and the boundary between reality and fantasy, focusing on women whose practices defy societal norms. Her work has been featured in prominent publications like Le Monde, CNN Photos, Vogue, NYT Lens Blog, and National Geographic, and exhibited nationally in Bilbao, Madrid, and Barcelona, as well as internationally in India, Switzerland, and Germany. Anton has received prestigious grants from organizations like Vegap, the Spain-US Foundation, EEAGrants, and the Provincial Council of Vizcaya.
In 2014, Anton was selected for the Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo, and in 2017, she was awarded the PhotoEspaña Revelation Prize. In 2023, she received a nomination for the Foam Paul Huf Award.

Born and raised in Milan, Giulia Bersani became interested in photography during the final years of high school. This interest emerged from a profound fear of death and the passage of time; the idea of capturing precious moments of life reassured her, allowing her to preserve their value. Over the years, she has worked on various personal projects, developing an intimate and raw style characterized by her choice to shoot exclusively on film. She later sought to bring the same authenticity and sensitivity to her commissioned work.

Is a director and videomaker. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, course of scenography, filmmaking address. In 2008/2010 he attended a master’s degree in film directing at CECC – Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya – Barcelona. His latest works, PAPER MEMORIES, AS LEAVES …, 7.83Hz, have been selected in festivals around the world winning more than 80 awards. He works as a videomaker in the field of fashion and as a director/editor for commercials and film projects.

Matteo Cesari
After graduating in Conservation of Cultural Heritage, he graduated from the three-year photography course at the Marangoni Foundation in Florence. Over the years, he has pursued documentary photography projects on social issues. His works have been published in various magazines such as D la Repubblica, Internazionale, Sette, and exhibited at Photography festivals including Photolux, Magazzini Fotografici, Slideluck. Currently, in addition to pursuing personal research projects, he is involved in commercial and fashion photography.

Paolo Cagnacci
He studied photography at Fondazione Studio Marangoni, where he currently teaches portrait photography and lighting techniques. He has done photographic projects for Regione Toscana, Festival della Creatività, Festival dei Popoli, Osservatorio dei Balcani, Fondazione Michelucci, Tempo Reale, Unicoop Firenze, Comune di Firenze, Fondazione Telecom, Mibact, CNA. He has worked for companies such as Patrizia Pepe, Diesel, Paula Cademartori, Peuterey, Starbucks, Stefanel, Ottodame, Dmail. He has published his images in magazines such as D la Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, La Stampa, Sette, SportWeek, L’Espresso, Pagina99, Specchio, Left, Donna Moderna, Famiglia Cristiana, La Lettura, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His projects have been distributed by Luz Photo Agency and Parallelozero Agency.

Born in Pistoia (January 19, 1938), he is one of the great masters of art photography. Renowned for his portraits of 20th-century artists – including Warhol, De Chirico, Schifano, and Burri – he has skillfully merged a contemporary gaze with classical tradition. His iconic images of sculptures by Michelangelo, Canova, and Bernini are interpreted with tactile and luminous sensitivity. Winner of the Oscar Goldoni Prize, he has exhibited in prestigious venues such as Palazzo Reale, the Hermitage, and MAXXI. His works are held in major public and private collections. Author of numerous monographs, he has also photographed symbolic sites of Italian art and architecture. His work stands out for its balance between formal rigor and emotional intensity. In recent years, he has received lifetime achievement awards and been the subject of retrospectives in Italy and abroad.

Roï Saade
Is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the intersection of graphic design, photography and visual arts and curator of the exhibition AIR, RIVER, SEA, SOIL. A History of an Exploited Land, at Rifugio Digitale.

His process-based practice is grounded in a close collaboration between artist, designer and curator. His approach is enriched by careful visual research and creative exchange. Roï is interested in finding and creating ways to resist systems of domination and inequality.

As a photographer, his work seeks to investigate individual and collective identity and experience through the documentation of social and personal encounters. He often collaborates with Tamara Abdul Hadi, his life and vision partner.

His virtual studio deals with projects such as branding, cultural and artistic projects, and publications. Roï has designed and curated exhibitions, corporate identities, magazines and specialized in book design, where he combines his passion for photography and design.

Roï holds an MFA in Graphic Design from USEK University in Lebanon. He is currently a Research Associate at the Access in the Making research lab at Concordia University in Montreal.

Zied Ben Romdhane
Born in 1981 in Tunisia; began his career as a commercial photographer. In 2011 he decided to focus on documentary photography and photojournalism. His work has been published in “The New York Times” and “The Washington Post”.

His recent exhibitions include: Views of Tunisia (Arles 2013), After the Revolution (White Box, New York 2013), Zones d’Attente (Clark House, Bombay 2013), Kushti (Maison de la Tunisie, Paris 2013), Fotofest Biennial at the Houston Center for Photography (Houston, USA 2014), Sahel (1×1 Gallery, Dubai 2014), Trace (MUCEM, Marseille 2015), Afrotopia, African biennial of photography (Bamako, Mali 2017) and the Biennial of Photography of the Contemporary Arab World (France, Paris 2017). In 2018, Romdhane published his first book, West of Life, with Red Hook Editions. Awards and honors received include selection for the World Press Photo Foundation’s 2018 Prize 6×6 Global Talent Program, participation in World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass, and winning the POPCAP award (Africa Image, Basel, 2015).

Mohamed Mahdy (Egypt, 1996) is a Visual storyteller based in Alexandria, Egypt, whose work focuses on buried and invisible communities in Egypt as well as cultural and social issues. She firmly believes that immersing herself in diverse communities and telling their stories means embedding these experiences permanently into the fabric of a larger community. Her work has been exhibited at the 25th Youth Salon and the Ministry of Culture, as well as the Paris Biennale. He has exhibited twice with the Ian Parry Scholarship in London and also at Photoville in New York. In 2018 he was named by the New York Times Lens blog as one of 12 emerging photographers to know.

Nadia Bseiso
Is a Jordanian documentary photographer based in Amman. She received a bachelor’s degree in photography from Florence, Italy, in 2011, and in 2015 was awarded an artist residency at the Fondazione Fotografia in Modena, Italy. She focuses on long-term projects based on personal research in geopolitics, history, anthropology and environmental degradation.In 2016, she was selected for the Arab Documentary Photography Program, funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Magnum Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund, for her project Infertile Crescent.

She was selected as a photographer to follow globally by Time – Light Box in March 2017. She has worked with several local and international NGOs since 2011. Her clients include Unicef, The New York Times, The Telegraph, Reuters, Zeit magazine, The Intercept, The Globe and Mail, and U.S. News & World Report.

Tamara Abdul Hadi
Is an Iraqi photographer whose work deals with the historical and contemporary representation of her culture in its diversity.In addition to being a photographer, Tamara is an educator who has taught photography courses in Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Tunisia, and Canada. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The National, Huck Magazine, VICE, Slate and others.Abdul Hadi was a founder of Rawiya Collective, a cooperative of female photographers in the Middle East. She is a member of We Are The Medium, an art collective of interdisciplinary artists working independently.She frequently collaborates with Roï Saade, her partner in life and vision.Tamara holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her photographs have been exhibited in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Canada and the United States.

Is a Spanish artist and photographer currently based in Germany, whose evocative work delves into the intricacies of motherhood, identity, and belonging. Her photographic journey began during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period marked by profound personal transformation and displacement. As a new mother and migrant, Isa turned to photography as a therapeutic outlet, capturing the intimate, fleeting moments of everyday life. Her series Birthmark explores the deep emotional landscapes of early motherhood, intertwining themes of nostalgia, magic, and the search for home. Isa’s work is characterized by its raw honesty and tender portrayal of the maternal experience, offering a unique perspective that challenges traditional representations. Through her lens, Isa Rus creates a visual narrative that is both deeply personal and universally relatable, inviting viewers to connect with the beauty and complexity of the human condition.

She lives and works in Melbourne, on the land of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Her practice explores the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world, using photography in unconventional ways. She published the monograph Extraordinary Experiences (2022), named Australian Photobook of the Year, followed by Beware of People Who Dislike Cats (2023) and Phenomena (2023). Her work has been awarded and exhibited internationally and featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and Art and Australia. She teaches photography at Swinburne University and is currently completing a PhD on the colonial representation of the kangaroo.

He is an artist, photographer, and professor based between Hamburg and Berlin. His practice focuses on socio-economic and political themes, combining photography, video collage, and installations through a research-driven and subjectively narrative approach. He has worked in numerous countries, including Iraq, Ukraine, Syria, Nigeria, China, and India. Holding a Master’s degree in Photography, he has received international awards such as the World Photography Award and the International Photography Award, and has been nominated for the Prix Pictet and the Leica Oskar Barnack Prize. A member of the German Photographic Academy since 2016, he founded the “Format” photography lab in Hamburg. Since 2024, he has been a professor of artistic photography at the University of Arts in Darmstadt.

He is a British documentary photographer of Indian origin, born in 1971 in London. His work explores memory, identity, and the sense of belonging through both documentary and staged imagery. In 2000, he won the prestigious World Press Photo award and has received international recognition for projects carried out in India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2015, he published Lost in the Wilderness, a book focused on the Sioux reservations, described by critic Sean O’Hagan as one of the best photobooks of the year. In 2022, he released Memoire Temporelle, a project set in Bombay that reflects on memory, nostalgia, and the notion of home. His work has been exhibited in leading galleries and institutions internationally.

Alessandro Messina

Born in 1976, is originally from La Spezia, where he developed a dual career as a musician and photographer. Trained artistically as a musician, he released four albums between 2008 and 2016 while simultaneously embarking on his photographic career. His photographic work involves not only commercial projects but also personal artistic endeavors that move in two directions: portrait-based projects and the more recent series Cosmo, which represents his own interpretation of the anti-portrait.

Is an American photographer. Her work was exhibited in international photography festivals such as the Athens Photo Festival at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece; and Cortona on the Move, in Cortona, Italy, as well as appearing in a biennial at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, USA, and at GuatePhoto International Photography Festival in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Her work is in collection institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum Library, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Nelson Atkins Museum for Art in Kansas City. A photobook of her work with artist Antone Dolezal, Devil’s Promenade, was published by Overlapse Books in 2021. A second photobook, Desire Lines, was published by Overlapse Books in 2023. Lara’s photographs appear in publications such as The New Yorker Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Atlantic Monthly, Vice, and NPR.

Andrea Roversi

He began studying photography four years ago at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, also attending Massimo Mastrorillo’s masterclass in reportage and photojournalism. He works as a freelance photographer and collaborates with the Milan-based agency Parallelozero. His work has been published in international outlets such as TerraMater, CNNdigital, D di Repubblica, and IoDonna.
His long-term project Daudalogn, focused on life on an Icelandic farm, has won international awards and been featured at festivals such as Voies Off Arles and the Istanbul Photo Festival.
Other works have been presented at the Rome Film Festival at the MACRO museum.

Francesco Grassi

Is a multidisciplinary artist based in Puglia working across photography, video, poetry, installation, and artificial intelligence. His practice, rooted in the rural landscapes of Southern Italy, explores the notion of the boundary and what exists at the margins: non-conforming bodies, underrepresented plant and animal species, organic materials excluded from dominant narratives. Through a collaborative approach and the use of diverse media, he creates scenarios where nature, culture, and perception intertwine, reflecting on landscape transformations and their representations

Luca Gasparro

He is a Milan-based photographer and videomaker, born in 1993. His personal research explores what it means to be human in relation to the surrounding environment, aiming to reveal the essence that animates and defines us. After earning a degree in Psychology, pursuing studies in Photojournalism, and deepening his training in Photography, his approach to imagery seeks to answer the “why” behind a story or situation. His work strives not to be merely a testimony of an event or existence, but to document through poetry.

Giuseppe De Grazia

Born in Noci in 1975 and now based in Florence, studied photography at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni, where he received a scholarship in 2006. In 2008, he was selected to attend a seminar at the atelier de visu in Marseille, directed by Antoine d’Agata and Patrick Le Bescont.
He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Italy, including Effetti postbabelici, Situa(c)tion, Slide Show, Looking Inside. Looking Outside, and Thanatos.
His work has been featured in several publications, such as Zone di frontiera urbana and Una Visione in Movimento.
In 2016, he presented his project Di domenica at the Forum Italia in Arles.

Leonardo Bocci

He is an Italian photographer, born in Siena in 1987 and based in Florence, who focuses on slow, reflective, and predominantly analog photography.

Camilla Fatticcioni

Photographer and scholar of China. After graduating in Chinese Language at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Camilla lived in China from 2016 to 2020. In 2017 she began a Master’s in Art History at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where she first approached photography.

Between 2022 and 2023 she attended advanced photography courses at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence. In Florence she continues to develop photographic projects focused on the Chinese community in Italy and on issues related to mass tourism.

In 2023 she was selected through the SuperNatural Open Call to exhibit her project Cruel Summer in a group show at the Rifugio Digitale gallery in Florence. Combining her passion for art and photography with the study of contemporary Chinese society, Camilla collaborates with various magazines and publications and curates a column on Asian contemporary art for China Files.

Nadia Cianelli

Passionate about travel and photography, she began her career in tourism, finding in travel a source of discovery and personal support. Photography came later, becoming an essential tool for her to explore the world.
From 2015 to 2022, she served as Regional Delegate for FIAF in Umbria, and today she is a member of the board of the association Istanti Fotografia e Cultura. She takes part in exhibitions, teaches photography, and leads workshops, especially on alternative techniques such as cyanotype.
She has received several recognitions, including the Umbria World Photo Fest (2013), third place at Portfolio dell’Ariosto, and the award from the Writing and Travel Photography Workshop (2014). Ti sopravvivo was a finalist at Portfolio Italia.

Noemi Comi

is a visual artist and conceptual photographer born in Catanzaro (Italy).  Noemi studied photography at LABA (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti) Florence, where she graduated with Honorable Mention. She is actually enrolled at Brera Academy (Milan).
Her photography is constantly evolving and follows a multidisciplinary path. She wants to combine art and science trying to break down any taboo. Her works conform to a well-defined aesthetic, dominated by strong colors and surreal atmospheres.

Francesca Cao

She is an Italian documentary photographer who trained at the International Center of Photography in New York. In 2008 she won the Tierney Fellowship with The Lion of Central Asia, which was exhibited at the New York Photo Festival. Selected by PhotoEspaña in 2009, in 2011 she presented the traveling exhibition My Broken World. Her project The Lion of Central Asia was a finalist for the 2012 Inge Morath Award.

She is currently working on Temporary Life, a journey through Italian sites marked by unfinished post-earthquake reconstruction; the project was a finalist for the 2013 Unseen Dummy Award.
She has collaborated with publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian Weekend, Marie Claire, Wired, and Il Corriere della Sera.

Zancan

He was born in France in 1976 and currently lives and works in the city of Bordeaux. He is a generative artist but also a painter and computer programmer. Combining his artistic training with his programming skill, he was able to develop algorithms capable of recreating, through code, the natural world around us, and was among the precursors of programmable or algorithmic art on blockchain, so-called generative art, revealing the infinite possibilities of a figurative-generative genre, product of the computer graphics of a much earlier era – the Sixties. His representations of natural shapes through studies of algorithms and programming in JavaScript remind us of the essential bond between man and nature, drawing attention to current environmental and social issues.

Lorella Zanardo
Nuovi Occhi per i Media

“With this project, we are promoting a journey into faces and their meaning. Conformism has taken hold through apps, social media, digital humans, and even through mass cosmetic surgery inspired by the beauty standards spread on social networks. In the face of this increasingly widespread phenomenon, many questions arise: do we still recognize ourselves when we look in the mirror? Are our faces disappearing? What are we hiding when we present our altered and disguised faces? Volto Manifesto, which we are carrying forward with Unicoop Firenze, is a reflection on who we are and how we are changing. Because the face is not only the place of aesthetics, but also of ethics. The face is a heritage of humanity.”

Claudio Vanni
Head of External Relations, Unicoop Firenze

“This campaign launches a powerful and timely reflection on who we are and how we are changing. At Unicoop Firenze, we embraced this project by involving institutions, our members, citizens, and students, because we believe that everyone’s diversity and uniqueness must be protected as a value that contributes to building the ethical wealth of society. We are very happy with the support of the Tuscany Region and with the collaboration of Rifugio Digitale and Forma Edizioni, who have hosted the exhibition in this stimulating and innovative space within the city’s cultural scene.”

Is an Australian artist who has gained a reputation for her large scale photographs that explore representations of women and feminine iconography throughout art history and mythology. Her photographs are rich with mythological and historical symbolism and imbued with a sense of the surreal and uncanny. Symbolic animals and females often appear together in her work to represent psyche and identity. Her work is held in many public collections including National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia. In 2019 the National Gallery of Victoria held a major survey show of Hicks work, titled ‘Bleached Gothic’. This exhibition included fifty photographs and video works spanning the period 2003 to 2019. From June-September 2021 Hicks survey show ‘Gothique Blanc’ was held at the Australian Embassy, Paris, France displaying photographs spanning the period 2003 to 2019.

Massimo Bevilacqua

He is a techno artist, virtual designer, and art director who has collaborated with Teatro Studio Krypton since 2004, working alongside Giancarlo Cauteruccio on both theatrical and installation-based projects. He has developed strong expertise in virtual scenography, video mapping, and visual direction, exploring the relationship between new technologies and performance art.

Since 2014, he has curated initiatives within the project Nel Chiostro delle Geometrie, involving both established artists and emerging talents. In 2018, he co-founded the Tenax Theatre, a space dedicated to research on the interplay between body and technology, where he created the performance experiences CorpoImmaginE and OscenaMente – Nella Carne dell’Incubo.

In 2020, he conceived the RespirArea project, and in 2021 he co-founded the Hyper Art Fest, an experimental debut in Florence that attracted a large, predominantly under-30 audience.

Is a Finnish artist based in London. Her work deals with the concepts of identity, faith and folklore as interpreted through photography and video art. Her work has participated in international exhibitions and in 2019 Lax was awarded the Female in Focus prize by the British Journal of Photography, and was a finalist for the BJP Portrait of Humanity Award for 2020 and the Photography Grant of the PHMuseum. She was selected among the Best New Talent of Photo London 2020 by the Guardian. In 2021, Maria Lax was awarded the Finnish Art Promotion Centre’s One Year Grant.

Is an interdisciplinary artist and director who works between San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA. Her early performative and kinetic work analyzes society’s expectations of women throughout the Western world, in particular how women are supposed to care about and preserve their looks. Her current digital photography work expands on the concept of appearance. Here the focus shifts to buildings and the built landscape, with particular attention to what remains of the American Southwest, where a fi ne façade becomes crucial to society’s very survival.

He was born in Bari and lives in a small town called Sannicandro di Bari, just a few kilometers away. He has been taking photographs for over ten years and is self-taught, having never attended photography schools. Cinema has been an integral part of his journey; since childhood, he has watched countless films, many of them science fiction like Alien, Predator, Total Recall, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many others. He started by posting daily everyday photographs on Instagram from 2012, using an iPhone. Over time, this activity evolved into a full-time career: he has been contacted by various magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The British Journal, as well as many brands that commissioned work from him. He has published three photography books, and his work is continuously evolving.

Born in 1981, is a Swiss-French photographer based in Lausanne. After studying philosophy, literature, and cinema, he trained in photography in Vevey. He has exhibited internationally and published six books. Winner of the HSBC Photography Award in 2009, he has shown work at the Musée de l’Elysée and the Rencontres d’Arles with the project H+. In 2022, he presented Vivants at the Pully Museum and Paris Photo, where he won the Ruinart Prize. He teaches photography at ECAL and is a founding member of the MAPS agency.

Charlotte Dumas

Born in the Netherlands in 1977, Charlotte Dumas is a photographer and video artist whose work investigates how we define the value of animals and ourselves as humans. She explores the contradiction between animals used as food resources and those given anthropomorphic roles. From Retrieved, about 9/11 rescue dogs, to Stay, on endangered Japanese horse breeds, her work delves deeply into human-animal relationships. Since 2012, she has incorporated video into her practice, starting with Anima, filmed at Arlington National Cemetery. Her short films include The Widest Prairies and a Japan-based trilogy: Shio, Yorishiro, and Ao. She has published over ten photo books.

Is a photographer and filmmaker exploring solutions for the future, with a focus on the relationship between humans, science, technology, and the environment. He collaborates with scientists, journalists, and activists to deepen his research, which has been centered for over a decade on the climate crisis. He is a co-founder of a non-governmental organization that helps protect 600,000 hectares of Amazon rainforest. His work is regularly featured in major publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, and TIME. Locatelli has exhibited internationally at venues including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Les Rencontres d’Arles, and the Shanghai Center of Photography. His work has earned several major awards, including the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and multiple World Press Photo prizes.

Roberto Di Caro

Born in 1953, he graduated in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Turin. Since 1977, he has worked as a journalist and editor, producing investigations on politics, society, trade unions, terrorism, and Italian culture. From 1983, he has collaborated with L’Espresso, creating national and international reports, including the last interview with Primo Levi and coverage from the former Soviet Union.
In the 1990s, he documented Tangentopoli, the rise of the Lega Nord, bullying, criminal cases, and cultural publications on authors such as Calvino and Schoenberg. Since 2001, he has covered wars and international crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Haiti, Darfur, and the Amazon. He has interviewed world leaders including Kissinger, Albright, Erdogan, and Salih, and has written on domestic politics, social movements, and organized crime. He is the author of essays, curator of photographic exhibitions, and a lecturer in journalism and reportage techniques at the University of Bologna.

Archea Associati

Studio Archea was founded in Florence in 1988 by Laura Andreini, Marco Casamonti, and Giovanni Polazzi, all graduates of the city’s Faculty of Architecture. In 2001, as its activities expanded, Archea Associati was established with the contribution of Silvia Fabi. The studio has carried out projects internationally and opened offices in China, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, and Albania. Its design work ranges from objects to urban-scale projects, integrating research and academic teaching. Marco Casamonti is a Full Professor in Genoa, and Laura Andreini is an Associate Professor in Florence. The firm’s theoretical output includes essays, books, and articles published in Italy and abroad. Since 1997, Marco Casamonti has been editor-in-chief of the international architecture magazine Area, with Laura Andreini serving as deputy editor since 2002. Casamonti has also been the scientific director of the Fondazione Annali dell’Architettura e delle Città of Naples. Since 2009, Laura Andreini has served as editorial director of Forma Edizioni, a publishing house specializing in art, architecture, and design. The studio’s works have been widely published and selected for major international architecture exhibitions and events.