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Anna Positano is a photographer and an artist, with a background in architecture. She graduated in Architecture at the University of Genoa (2008), then obtained her MA in Photography at the London College of Communication (2010). Her work encompasses the reciprocal in uence between landscape and society and explores everyday places that play a key-role in narrating people’s lives. She uses photography, video installations, cartography, writing and participated practices to interpret the complexity of man-altered landscapes.

In addition to her art and research, she works on commission for architects and public institutions. She is regularly published in architectural magazines (including Casabella, Domus, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’Hui, Le Moniteur). She gives tertiary lectures (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Florida International University, Polytechnic University of Milan, University of Genoa, Italian Institute of Culture - Addis Ababa) and leads workshops at a university level.

Her projects have been exhibited internationally, in art galleries and public institutions, such as La Triennale, Milan, Venice Architectural Biennale, Cornell University, Ithaca, MAO Ljubljana, and Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa.

Anna is based in Genoa, Italy.

Armando Perna (Reggio Calabria, 1981) is a documentary photographer. Since 2013 he has been involved in a long term research focused on the process of militarization and compartmentalization of space seen as a result of practices rooted in the history of the Lebanese civil war, when Beirut was fragmented into well delineated territories each controlled by a sectarian militia. Armando Perna looks to what anthropologists call “prohibited spaces”: urban sites that were originally public and became “private”, inaccessible and out of reach for the majority of the population, because of the war and the urban renewal projects.

In 2013 his project “A3_Sa-Rc” is shortlisted for the architekturbild - European Prize for Architectural photography - (DAM, German museum of Architecture, Frankfurt ). Selected exhibitions: Museum of Estonian Architecture, KazimKuba, Kassel (2014); Vhs photogalerie, Stuttgart; International tag der Architektur, Vilnius; DAM, German Museum of Architecture, Frankfurt, GER (2013).

In 2014 the first version of his book project “Dahiye” is shortlisted for the fotobookfestival dummy award (Kassel, Germany). Selected exhibitions: Athens Photo Festival, The Photobook Museum, Cologne; PhotoIreland, Dublin, MIA Image Art Fair, Milan; Fotogaleriet, Oslo; Le Bal, Paris; Fotoleggendo, Rome (2014). In the same year Armando Perna joins the “Third Island Ag ’64 ’94 ’14” a research project dedicated to the promotion of an interdisciplinary and historical reflection on large-scale infrastructures in Italy curated by Antonio Ottomanelli. In this frame he presents “A3_Sa-Rc”, his work on the Southern Italy A3 Sa-Rc highway. “The Third Island” is published in 2016 by Planar books, and exposed at the Triennale Museum in Milan and at Palazzo Poli in Rome.

In 2017 his work on Dahiye and Shatila is presented at Pino Pascali Museum of Polignano a Mare (BA).

Lorenzo Pingitore was born in Torino in 1985, he attends the Art Institute Felice Faccio, where he explores his passion for the great artists. He continues his studies in the Politecnico of Turin, graduating in "Scienza dell'Architettura e dell'Ingegneria Edile".

Lorenzo uses the photography as a way of expression; he refines his technique during a long collaboration in the backstages for several fashion brands, a collaboration that still exists.

The skills acquired will allow Lorenzo to express himself creatively.

Through the use of a camera he captures images that evoke emotions and thoughts; he is not a lover of photographic manipulation through programs, in fact he creates installations to recreate what he thought and felt while visiting those places.

Teresa Giannico (b. 1985) is an Italian artist based in Milan. After graduating in Figurative Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari, she specialised in Drawing and Painting, while developing a strong interest in set design and theatre and growing ever closer to photography. In 2012 she moved to Milan and attended the Master in Photography and Visual Design at NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) and worked as an assistant together with the photographers Paolo Ventura and Toni Thorimbert.

After having displayed her work for the first time at Plat(t)form 2015, held at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur (Switzerland), she was asked to display her work on the occasion of the Fotopub Festival in Novo Mesto (Slovenia) and at Circulation(s) in Paris. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Francesco Fabbri Prize for her work Lay Out. Over the last year and a half, she has concentrated exclusively on her own personal research, focusing on the creation of new series and projects. Se has been selected for Fotografia Europea 2017. Since 2016 she has been represented by Viasaterna.

Umberto Coa was born in Palermo on December 29th, 1988. He lives and works between Palermo and Bordeaux.

He approached photography as a self-taught while studying law at the University of Milan. After graduating, he moved to Florence to attend the three-year course of photography at the Studio Marangoni Foundation, where he graduated in 2016.

Over the last few years, Vittorio Mortarotti realized projects with political refugees, former miners, prostitutes, tsunami survivors and war veterans.

His installations, exhibited among others at Maxxi (Rome), at the BlueProject Foundation (Barcelona) and at the Casino de Luxembourg, investigate the dynamics of memory and how History interferes with private fates.

His book The First Day of Good Weather was shortlisted for “The First Book Award 2015” and published by Skinnerboox the same year.

In 2015 he won the Leica Prize at the Biennial Images of Vevey together with Anush Hamzehian.