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Camilla Ferrari (b. 1992) is an Italian multimedia visual storyteller based in Milan, Italy. Her work, which mixes stills and vertical moving images, focuses on the emotional and physical relationship between human beings and their surroundings, while reflecting on perception and the power of silence.
Her images and videos meditate on the simplicity of daily life and the intrinsic beauty hidden in the routine, using photography and video as portals that let us enter and visualize a new space that exists between reality and its representation and interpretation.
After graduating in Media Studies, she studied photography at the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan. Her work has been published in National Geographic, NPR, US News, The Culture Trip, CNN, 6Mois, InsideOver and Elle Decor Italia, among others. She is a member of Women Photograph. In 2020 she was nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass held by World Press Photo, while in 2019 she was selected by PDN as one of the 30 emerging talents worldwide as well as by Artsy as one of their ‘20 Rising Female Photojournalists’. In 2018, she attended the Canon Student Development Programme at Visa Pour l’Image, the Nikon NOOR Masterclass in Turin, and was shortlisted for the WMA Hong Kong Commission Grant.
Camillo Pasquarelli is interested in long-term projects adopting photography as a tool of knowledge contaminated by the self-reflective approach of anthropology.
In the last five years he has been working extensively in the valley of Kashmir, India, at first documenting the political conflict between the population and the Indian administration, and later trying to explore a more personal and oneiric approach to the issue. In 2020 Camillo was one of the selected artist for the FOAM Talent.
Among the prizes received are Shortlist at PH Museum Grant, Best Rising Talent at Gomma Grant, Alexia Foundation Student Grant, LensCulture B&W, Shortlist Unseen Dummy Award, Fotoleggendo Award.
Camillo’s photographs has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Europe, USA, Asia, Oceania and published in Time, Der Spiegel, Polka, National Geographic, Internazionale, BuzzFeed, Mashable, Vanity Fair and many other international publications.
Giovanna Petrocchi is an Italian photographer based in London. She graduated from the London College of Communication with a BA in Photography in 2015 and she recently completed her MA in Visual Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, London. In 2017 she was selected as a winner of the Lens Culture Emerging Talent Award and in 2019 she exhibited her latest body of work at The Photographers’ Gallery as part of TPG New Talent mentoring programme. Recently she took part in the group exhibition ‘With Monochrome Eyes’ at the Borough Road Gallery, London.
By combining personal photographs with found imagery and hand-made collages with 3d printing processes, Giovanna creates imaginary landscapes inspired by surrealist paintings virtual realities and ancient cultures. Influenced by museum displays and catalogues, Giovanna populates these landscapes with her own collection of surreal artefacts. The received view of ancient objects is deliberately distorted. A recurrent feature of her work is the juxtaposition of futuristic and primordial scenarios and the combination of historical and fictional elements.
I was born and raised in Torino (b. 1990), to be precise at the base of Val di Susa. I studied at the academy to follow the course of graphics where I learned the basics of semiotics and image perception.
My research that for formality can be described as photographic due to the medium used, even if the dimension that belongs to me is more related to the image, to what it communicates to us and how it is perceived. Like the graphic design my photographs tend to a clear reading, which privileges functionality to pure aesthetic beauty, to finalize the reading to a deeper stage of cognitive perception. I have two different aspects: the construction of the image by the sculpture, and the archiving of the photos that I collect in certain carefully chosen environments. It’s very important to me to return many times to the settings that I selected. Both approaches are always formalized and captured through photography.
In 2019 I was finalist of the FFF Fondazione Francesco Fabbri award. My work has been featured in many national and international exhibitions: Audi Studio by Nevven Gallery, Stockholm; Villa Vertua Masolo, Milano; Spaziosiena, Siena; LOFT, Lecce; Las Palmas, Lisbon; Galleria Giuseppe Pero, Milano; BASIS, Frankfurt; Spaziobuonasera, Torino.
Marina Caneve (b. 1988) is a photographer exploring how our knowledge is shaped trough a research based and multidisciplinary approach. With her work Caneve tries to face aspects of our existence that seem so big and prominent that the individual can only adapt; she is interested in complexity and contamination.
Her work was exhibited internationally in personal and collective shows and since 2019 she teaches at the Master IUAV in Photography.
In 2018 she was awarded with the Giovane Fotografia Italiana Award at Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia) and Lesley A. Martin awarded her dummy ‘Are They Rocks or Clouds?’ with the Cortona On The Move Dummy Award. Thanks to these awards and the collaboration with Hans Gremmen and Taco Hidde Bakker in 2019 the photobook was published by Fw:Books. The photobook was awarded with the 2020 Bastianelli Award for the best italian photobook.
In 2019 she was commissioned by MUFOCO and the Italian Ministry of Culture of a project about italian architectural heritage and later, by the National Mountain Museum, of a new project based on their archives.
Caneve’s work is now part of private and public collections.
She is co-founder of CALAMITA/À, a multidisciplinary platform exploring the attractive nature of catastrophes in society and in the environment.
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