They will join the platform’s activities to present their work to international professionals and to network, amongst other opportunities that will be developed for them, including exhibitions, publishing opportunities, portfolio reviews, and more.
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Andrea Camiolo
Andrea Camiolo (b. 1998) is an Italian photographer. He graduated in 2020 from the European Institute of Design in Turin, and in 2023 obtained an MA in Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. Camiolo’s work has been recognised by a series of international prizes and showcases, including the Comisso Award, Paris Photo Carte Blanche, Giovane Fotografia Italiana #10, and the Best Portfolio Award at Ragusa Photo Festival. His work has been exhibited in group shows throughout Italy, as well as in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. Camiolo is co-founder of DORSOPRESS, an independent publishing house focused on contemporary photography.val.
Nicola Di Giorgio
Nicola Di Giorgio (b. 1994) graduated in Graphic Design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, continuing his studies in Photography at the ISIA in Urbino. With an interdisciplinary approach, his research focuses on the landscape; he investigates contemporary society from scientific, socio-cultural and formal perspectives to identify various correlations between art and science. He combines these methodologies with collecting as an artistic and taxonomic research practice. In 2022, Di Giorgio received the Graziadei Prize for Photography, in co-production with the MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome. Since 2023, he has worked as a professor at NABA-New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. His works are found in several public and private collections.
Eleonora Roara
Eleonora Roaro (b. 1989) holds a BA in Photography (IED, Milan), an MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies (NABA, Milan), and an MA in Contemporary Art Practice (Plymouth University, Plymouth). Her research focuses on moving images, archival practices, the archaeology of the cinema, and cinema memories. A participant in various residency programmes throughout Italy, her work has been shown in galleries and museums across Europe. She worked on the research project “VR and AR in the Valorisation of Cultural and Art Heritage” during a fellowship at the University of Udine in 2019. Roaro’s Sensing Dolce Vita: An Experiment in VR Storytelling was named the winning project of the MISTI Global Seed Fund from MIT (Boston) and the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region.
Sara Scanderebech
Sara Scanderebech (b. 1985) is a Milan-based photographer and visual artist. She studied Visual Arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts before beginning her career as a photographer at Galleria Carla Sozzani. Her work moves between art, fashion and design, involving close collaboration with a range of artists, brands and magazines. For Scanderebech, photography is a medium for investigating reality and creating new imaginaries. In her projects – which have been exhibited in a range of galleries and festivals – details of plants, animals, objects and bodies become new metaphors and contemporary symbols. Since 2017, Scanderebech has managed the bookshop at Paradise: a Marsèll concept store based in Milan.
Alex Zoboli
Alessandro Zoboli (b. 1990) graduated from the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in 2014. Between 2015 and 2019 he worked in Alex Majoli’s studio as an assistant, refining his skills as a photographer, printer and retoucher. In 2019 he joined Cesura Agency as an official member. Over the past years he has worked on a number of different long-term projects exploring the relationship between North Africa and Europe. Zoboli has also documented the Covid-19 pandemic and housing crisis in Italy; travelling the country from North to South, he photographs the conditions of inequality that characterise western societies, highlighting the forgotten discomfort experienced by millions of families. His ongoing Shine On project explores the multifaceted and elusive face of today’s Britain: a liquid form, constantly changing and contradicting itself in search of a new identity.
Zoe Natale Mannella
Zoe Natale Mannella was born in London and raised in the south of Italy. She is a self-taught photographer whose projects investigate questions of intimacy and sexuality, particularly in relation to women. Her work combines elements of reportage with an interest in staged photography.
