Exhibition

On 5 May 2026, at 6:30 pm, at Officine Fotografiche, a screening titled “Percorsi Condivisi” was held, dedicated to ongoing projects, experiences and processes in the field of photography and the visual arts. The event was a public presentation of the work carried out by some students, who showed their projects still in development, sharing the creative and research path undertaken within the Post Reportage and Narrative Techniques workshop, led by Gabriele Stabile. The authors involved are: Antonella Simonelli, Carola Gatta, Luca Chiaventi, Marco Valente and Mauro Cittadini.

On 13 December 2025, on the occasion of the fourth edition of “Le strade dell’Arte” in Monteverde, Sonia Mascioli’s Officina Kreativa workshop hosted the opening of the exhibition “Due voci di blu” by Collettivo Momenta. Carola Gatta and Luca Chiaventi presented two distinct projects, both created using the cyanotype technique. My project is titled “Ciò che resta”.

On 17 June 2025 the opening of my solo exhibition titled “Stanotte ti ho sognato” was held at Officine Fotografiche , Roma. The exhibition is part of the series “UNDERGROUND. Gli autori di Officine”.

The photographs of the project “L’altro verde”, developed by the working group of Officine Fotografiche under the coordination of Carola Gatta, Antonella Simonelli and Laura Bussotti, were presented at the Agorà space (Clivo Rutario 53, Roma) from 28 May to 11 June 2025.

On 28 April 2025, at the invitation of Prof. Antonella Salucci (Department of Architecture in Pescara), I took part in a photo interview for [Draw Lab] – Research Unit for Photography.

On 22 November 2024, in Roma, in the spaces of the Qube, the 24th national edition of MArteLive took place. On this occasion my photograph that won the “La giostra dei sogni” contest was exhibited.

On 16 June 2024, at 7 p.m., at the Mattatoio di Roma – La Pelanda, as part of the Festival delle Periferie IPER, the photographs of the project “Periferie. L’emergenza dell’insolito”, curated by Emilio d’Itri and Mauro Raponi, were projected, including some of my images. Description What if the outskirts were the corner of the alternative. The space of change. The environment where another possibility can be imagined. Dreaming of the overturning. Those who officially make history draw the map, set the boundaries, establish what is known. There are those who dream up a different solution. A place where imagination has citizenship, a right to go beyond what is given. We tried to tell the story of this fanciful place, this hallucination, to help look beyond the cliché. To invent a vision, to look by inventing.

From 21 to 23 June 2024, at Parco Garbatella (via Rosa Raimondi Garibaldi), the exhibition “L’altro verde – Esplorazioni creative del paesaggio urbano dimenticato” was presented, as part of the 31st edition of the Festa per la Cultura, promoted by the Associazione Culturale Controchiave. The project, developed within Officine Fotografiche, was coordinated by Carola Gatta, Antonella Simonelli and Laura Bussotti. The following photographers took part in its creation: Authors Lucio Baldelli, Carlo Bertana, Viviana Bertelli, Laura Bussotti, Chiara Cappelletti, Cornelia Natalia Catella, Mauro Cittadini, Antonio Crialesi, Patrizia Cupperi, Giustina Czosnika, Simona Dell’Elce, Francesca Della Ratta, Letterio Fazzari, Umberto Fracassi, Salvatore Franco, Roberto Frisari, Carola Gatta, Alessandro Guarasci, Luca Guerri, Marica Guiducci, Claudio Imperi, Margarita Lopez Perez, Claudio Mantovani, Stefano Marcovaldi, Assunta Mezzanotte, Angelo Miranda, Rita Narzisi, Michela Poggipollini, Carlo Rampioni, Luca Roberto, Antonella Simonelli, Giorgio Termini, Marco Valente, Sandro Venanzi. Description There is a precious green in the city. Not that of parks and equipped areas, but a rebellious, anarchic green: it surges from the cracks in the pavements, bursts out in flower beds and uncultivated land, adorns ruins and abandoned structures. Fragments of what the French landscape designer Gilles Clément in 2005 called the “Third landscape”: a leftover space not controlled by humans, unproductive and therefore ignored or frowned upon by society, yet a refuge and incubator of biodiversity in an urban environment. Over the last two decades there has been a growing awareness of how important it is to preserve the wealth of plant and animal species, first and foremost pollinating insects, in ecosystems that have become increasingly poor and fragmented. In parallel, the idea that spontaneous greenery represents a useful resource has taken root and borne good fruit, so much so that today the administrations of many Italian cities have recognised the need to reduce the number of times lawns are mown and to keep within urban parks some uncultivated areas that act as reservoirs of biodiversity. A small-great revolution that also invites us to reconsider the canon of “beauty” in the realm of public and private greenery. This work is the fruit of a year-long workshop for the members of Officine Fotografiche Roma coordinated by Laura Bussotti, Carola Gatta and Antonella Simonelli. It springs from the desire to investigate creatively the nature of the “other” green, spontaneous and marginal, within the municipality of Roma, observing it with a fresh gaze. In Clément’s footsteps, we tried to approach diversity with wonder and respect, considering “non-organisation as a vital principle through which every organisation lets itself be crossed by the flashes of life”.

The photographs of the project “W-O-M-A-N”, created by the collective Momenta, are on display at the Agorà space (Clivo Rutario 53, Roma) from 11 to 24 April 2024. Each portrait captures the unique essence of every woman and invites reflection on the beauty and strength that reside in diversity. The exhibition goes beyond the traditional concept of passive observation, actively involving the visitors and allowing them to become an integral part of the exhibition, both as observers and as subjects of the work. During the exhibition period a photographic set will be arranged where visitors can have their portraits taken; the resulting images may become part of a future exhibition of the project. The make-up artist Mila Severini will be available for those who wish to be photographed. On the occasion of the opening, the Materico Band will perform. The collective Momenta is composed of the photographers Luca Chiaventi and Carola Gatta, and the make-up artist Mila Severini.

On the occasion of the first week of action against antigypsyism, promoted by UNAR and S.O.S. Razzismo, the photography contest “La giostra dei sogni” was launched. The three winning works, selected by Angelo Cricchi, were presented at the Tevere Art Gallery on 8 April 2024, including my photograph “Verso l’incredibile”.

The project “Once Were Warriors” was selected and published in the third issue of the magazine Perimetro Roma, presented on 29 October 2023 at Contemporary Cluster. The photographers of this edition: Giorgio Azzena / Angelo Cricchi / Valentina De Santis / Carola Gatta / Alessandro Iovino / Simone Morelli / Albena Nikolova / Stefano Sbrulli.

AAA Soulmate wanted Marine creature, born under the sign of Pisces, seeks soulmate to explore together the depths of existence. Interactive artistic installation that transforms the search for a soulmate into a visual and emotional experience. The work invites the viewer to go beyond the superficiality of the image and to embark on a journey of reflection on love, connection and the many forms of human intimacy. RAW 2023, from 25 October 2023, at Spazio Chirale , via Ignazio Persico 32, Roma. Video: Carola Gatta Editing and Music: Leonardo Zaccone Poetry: Scilla Maris Set-up: Chirale

My project “Once Were Warriors” was exhibited at Castelnuovo Fotografia from 1 to 9 October 2022.

“Once Were Warriors” was selected in the shortlist of the Festival Diecixdieci 2022 . The book was exhibited in Mantova from 24 to 25 September 2022 and took part in the Fotofabbrica Prize 2022.

A photograph of mine was selected as part of the Urban Photo Award 2022 competition and was exhibited from 2 September to 16 October 2022 at the Museo del Territorio in Cormons (GO).

On Sunday 15 May, at the Villaggio Globale, a day dedicated to the visual arts took place, during which I presented my book “Once Were Warriors”.

28 – 30 April 2022 – The second edition of the DIVO C Project took place, dedicated to the theme “Tempo di condivisione”, a reflection on the present and the future, curated by Monica Cecchini and Giorgio Sacher. The photographs of 22 authors were exhibited in three venues: Incinque Open Art Monti, Art Sharing Roma and Teatro Arciliuto. Two of my images were exhibited at Art Sharing Roma (via Giulio Tarra 64, Roma). Press review: Ansa Exibart.com

Two of my photographs are for sale on the ASA Virtual Gallery .

I received a mention for my photograph “Intersections” from the jury of the Fine Art Photography Award 2022. Click here

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They wrote about Once Were Warriors:
– Interview by Lucilla Loiotile
– Discarded Magazine
– Photosophia Magazine

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“Once Were Warriors” is a photographic project and a book conceived by Carola Gatta within the Human photography workshop of Yogurt Magazine, developed between 2019 and 2021. Through a careful dialogue between archival photographs, scientific projects, found images and photographs taken by the author, the project addresses the complex relationship between Romans and their city, proposing imaginary and visionary solutions as tools for reflection. From 21 October to 12 November 2021, the project was exhibited at the Fotosciamanna workshop in Rome, on the occasion of Roma Art Week . The exhibition was curated by ASA Project. Click here

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My project “Once Were Warriors” received a special mention from the jury of the CDPZine Contest at the “Castelnuovo Fotografia” festival. Article on Officine Fotografiche.

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Urban life manifests itself in the flow of vehicles along the city’s arteries, in the meeting and clashing of bodies in public places, in the spaces of production and social aggregation. On 9 March 2020 this anthropic organism suddenly slowed down, sending the city into a state of suspension, almost a coma, rarefying aspirations, desires and dreams. The photographic exhibition invites us to train our gaze and to observe Rome as we have never seen it before: under the lens of a microscope, far from the usual clichés, the city is analysed as a living organism, made of tissues, pulsations, cycles and mutations. The exhibition was set up in the spaces of the Fondazione Gimema, an important research centre committed to the fight against blood diseases, which chose the Pantanella as its venue and as a place of sharing and exchange with the city. On display, photographs by Roma Fotografia, Carola Gatta and Emiliano Zandri. From 2 to 3 October 2021

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On 24 June 2021, at the FabLab Ostiense, the opening of the exhibition-installation by the Collettivo Momenta took place. During the evening there was a performance of electronic music by the Metadiapason collective, accompanied by a wine tasting offered by the Casale del Giglio winery. W-O-M-A-N is an exhibition itinerary dedicated to the creative process of the female portrait. The exhibition is structured on two levels: an outdoor itinerary, in which 22 portraits of women, printed on large-format canvases, present the final result of the artistic work, and an indoor itinerary within the FabLab, where the focus shifts to the process and its tools. The industriousness of the machines and the complexity of the workshop’s production processes ideally dialogue with the outdoor catwalk, where photographic set lights illuminate the final images: the result of a process that is at once creative, artisanal and technological. The exhibition was curated by Chirale . The Collettivo Momenta is composed of photographers Luca Chiaventi and Carola Gatta and make-up artist Mila Severini.

The project “Stessa spiaggia, stesso mare” was exhibited on Saturday 21 November 2020 at Mediterraneo al MAXXI, on the occasion of the “Female in March” evening, organised by Female CUT and Officine Fotografiche.

The Rebirth Day is a celebratory day conceived by Michelangelo Pistoletto, held annually since 2012. On 20 December 2019, at the MACRO Asilo in Rome, the Rebirth Day was held with the participation of the associations and people involved in the Rebirth Forum Roma. During the event, projects, reflections and numerous interpretations of the Third Paradise were presented, in the presence of the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. On this occasion, thanks to the CSF Admas, some of my photographs were exhibited, taken over the past fifteen months inside the museum. The images contributed to forming the symbol of the Third Paradise, emblem of the day of re-birth. The Third Paradise represents the need to overcome the second paradise – the contemporary artificial one – in order to build a new phase of the human journey, founded on a balanced relationship between nature and artifice.

The video of the “Roma 3.0” project was screened during the conference “Soggetto: Architettura” which took place at the Casa dell’Architettura in Rome on 21 March 2019, during the Mese della Fotografia .

From 23 to 30 March 2019, the Spazio Concrete in Pigneto will host the exhibition “Un, due, tre… stella!” as part of the Mese della fotografia . The project, born within Officine Fotografiche, was coordinated by Andrea Alessandrini, Aldo Frezza, Angelo Miranda and myself. The following photographers took part in its realisation: Andrea Alessandrini, Carola Gatta, Aldo Frezza, Angelo Miranda, Luca Chiaventi, Andrea Civenzini, Maria Giulia Marini, Claudia Moretta, Laura Bussotti, Claudio Imperi, Marco Casini, Chiara Blandino, Gabriella Delaimo, Roberto Frisari, Antonio di Palo, Giulia Riccioni, Giovanni Coppi, Alessandro Fascetti. Description Everyone flees from childhood. To childhood – however it was lived, enjoyed, refused or denied – everyone returns. It is a return made of nostalgia, of memories, of dreams or even, at times, of rejections and nightmares. Because in childhood everything is there: happiness, sun, holidays, smiles, games, coloured pens, monsters, ghosts, scraped knees and injections. And scars, physical and otherwise, more or less painful. The memory and the traces of all this always accompany us, in the form of thoughts in black and white or in colour, three-dimensional or dreamed, our own or found again in the gesture of those who live in childhood today, here or kilometres away, posed or absent-mindedly depicted. Evident or denied like the faces of the child we once were and which we try to conceal even from ourselves, or like those of our children of today, hidden, covered and pixelated in the name of a mythical “privacy”. Because in childhood everything is there and everything is a game; and the game is always very serious. This is why we have stretched a red thread between us and a tinier world and, to the sound of “un, due, tre… stella!”, we have immortalised it. So everyone freeze, here we play seriously. Click.

My project “Il mare sorride in lontananza” was selected for “Female in March 2019” and screened at the MACRO ASILO on 9 March 2019.

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My project “Wave” was selected for Fotoconfronti OFF and exhibited in Bibbiena from 21 to 23 September 2018.

My project “La Penisola” was selected for the FIAF national exhibition that will be inaugurated on 16 June 2018 in Bibbiena at the Centro Italiano della Fotografia d’Autore.

I took part as a photographer in the catalogue of Alessandra Calvani published for her 20 years of activity, in which she presented 20 collections worn by 20 architect friends and exceptional models…one for each year, one for each intuition, one for each completed project. The graphic design is by Luceeda Visual designer.

On 17 January 2018, in via Libetta, the photographic exhibition “Roma 3.0 – Il nuovo nella città eterna” was organised by Rotostampa Group and Officine Fotografiche. The project was carried out by the working group coordinated by myself, Claudia Tombini and Silvia Giancola. The following took part in the project: Pier Luigi Altieri, Lucio Baldelli, Salvatore Belli, Carlo Bertana, Laura Bussotti, Carlo Campobasso, Luca Chiaventi, Andrea Civenzini, Marina Conti, Giovanni Coppi, Luigi Corvisieri, Enrico Cubello, Giuseppe D’arpa, Marta De Cinti, Gabriella Delaimo, Luisa Di Basilio, Rosaria Di Nunzio, Francesca Dini, Simonetta Facioni, Alessandro Fascetti, Lillo Fazzari, Daniele Florenzi, Gian Marco Garutti, Carola Gatta, Silvia Giancola, Alessandra Guerrizio, Giulia Leporatti, Maria Giulia Marini, Angelo Masetti, Angelo Miranda, Vittorio Nera, Simonetta Orsini, Luca Paccusse, Maria Grazia Petruzzelli, Barbara Provinciali, Mauro Raponi, Stefano Regini, Cecilia Ribaldi, Stefania Romano, Julia Ryzhenko, Giovanni Sabato, Antonella Simonelli, Claudia Tombini, Antonino Ulissi, Massimo Valentini, Angela Vicino, Alessandro Zompanti.

The project “la Penisola” will be exhibited on Saturday 10 March 2018 at the Lanificio 159 for the “Female in March” evening organised by Female CUT and Officine Fotografiche. Click here

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On Thursday 7 June 2012, at 7:00 PM, in the Sale Atelier of La Pelanda – Macro Testaccio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4 Rome – I will be awarded together with ten other winners of the photography competition organised by “The Gate Visible Connection” in collaboration with Roma Capitale, Zètema Progetto Cultura and Nikon. The winning photos and the 25 best photographs selected by the competition jury, on the theme of the places of culture in Rome, will remain on display at the MACRO, in the Sale Atelier, until 13 June with free admission from 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM. For more information www.casadellafotografiaroma.it .

On Sunday 17 December at 7 pm, as part of the MiBACT days for Photography // Passeggiate Fotografiche Romane, the exhibition of the working groups of the 2016/2017 academic year will be inaugurated. Among these groups, there will also be the one coordinated by myself, Claudia Tombini and Silvia Giancola: “Roma 3.0 – Il nuovo nella città eterna”. To see the Roma 3.0 video, presented on the occasion of Fotoleggendo 2017, click here .

A photograph of mine in the October issue of Locomotiv , dedicated to the night, accompanies the text “Intrecci” by Claudio Leoni.

On 9 September at 6 pm at the Fahrenheit 451 bookshop in piazza Campo de’ Fiori, there will be the opening of my solo exhibition “Blue”.

The “Blue” project was selected and exhibited on Wednesday 8 March 2017 at L’Ex-Dogana di San Lorenzo for the “Female in March” evening organized by Female CUT. Click here

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I took part in the “13×18 Manuale d’uso” exhibition, a group showcase of small photographs printed on paper, organized by Fotosciamanna – from Friday 10 February 2017, in via del Gelsomino, Roma. The exhibition was also shown at the Biblioteca Comunale Marconi, in via Gerolamo Cardano 135, from 21 June to 21 July 2017.

In 2016 I took part in the Officine Fotografiche group project “Il Libro. Immagini tra le righe”. The photographs were exhibited at the Officine Fotografiche venue, via G.Libetta, 1 – Roma, from 17 December to 6 January 2017, at the Biblioteca Casa del Parco in Roma, in via della Pineta Sacchetti, from 4 to 24 March 2017 and, again in Roma at the Biblioteca Marconi in via G. Cardano 135, from 15 November to 15 December 2017. Il Libro. Immagini tra le righe. Group project curated by Luca Chiaventi, Piergiorgio Radaelli, Julia Ryzhenko. Books have accompanied us from childhood to adulthood, always present on important occasions. From bedtime fairy tales to school, all the way to work and everyday domestic life, they helped us grow and live our own story and that of our heroes, they entertained us and came to our rescue in times of need. But in the age of fast consumption, fast food and the digital novel, it seems that the world of books is a thousand miles away from people’s reality, especially that of the young. This is what we wanted to reflect on through images, without hiding a somewhat pessimistic perception. But the project developed in another way. About twenty enthusiasts approached the theme from their own point of view, looking at reality in a more cheerful and positive way, each capturing images with different eyes, producing so much material that it became the subject of examination and shared evaluation. Here is the book from its birth to its journey through the hands of young and old, in public and private spaces, in its dimension as an object to buy and to keep. A rediscovery, perhaps, by photographers who approached such a vast and interesting theme using their own technical skills, but above all by engaging with great simplicity and with love. Love of books. PHOTOGRAPHERS Raffaele Attanasio, Margherita Bertolazzi, Maria Buttinelli, Carlo Dal Fabbro, Stefania De Luca, Nazzareno Falcone, Alessandro Fascetti, Carola Gatta, Francesco Giordani, Mario Giordani, Claudio Imperi, Antonella Maggi, Davide Ponzani, Piergiorgio Radaelli, Julia Ryzhenko, Giovanni Sabato, Antonella Simonelli, Alessandro Trani.

I was selected to take part in the Fotoconfronti OFF group exhibition, which will be held in Bibbiena at Palazzo Ferri from 16 to 18 September 2016.

This photograph of mine is among the winners of the #gibellinadisorder competition launched by Huffington Post on the occasion of the first edition of the Open Air International Photography Festival Gibellina PhotoRoad 2016 . The photographs will be projected on 31 July during the festival. Click here

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The “Emoticon” project will be exhibited from 10 June 2016 until the end of the month at the overpass of the Garbatella metro B station, as part of the group exhibition “Un ponte per la fotografia” organized by Officine Fotografiche. Click here

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I took part in the group exhibition “La luce e l’ombra” organized by the photography club “Lucis Imago”, of which I am a member. The exhibition was shown from 17 to 22 March 2016 at the Associazione Culturale Centofiori, in via Goito 35/b (Roma) and from 16 to 25 June 2016 at the Circolo “La Traccia”, in via Tor de Schiavi 222 (Roma).

The “Occupy” project was selected and exhibited on 5 March 2016 at L’Ex-Dogana di San Lorenzo for the “Female in March” evening organized by Officine Fotografiche and Obbiettivo Donna.

This photograph of mine is among the winners of the #TavoleDiClasseHp competition organized by Huffington Post Italia and Officine Fotografiche. Read here

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In 2015 I took part in the Officine Fotografiche group project “Museo dell’Istante”. The photographs will be exhibited at the Teatro Ambra alla Garbatella, piazza Giovanni da Triora, 15 – Roma, from 28 January – 6 March 2016. MUSEO DELL’ISTANTE Group project curated by Mauro Raponi, Flavia Rossi and Luca Chiaventi A recent amendment to the law on Cultural Heritage allows photographic shooting in museums in order to encourage the “free expression of thought, of creative expression and the promotion of cultural heritage”. In force since June 2014, the new provision provided the stimulus for a workshop among the activities of the cultural association Officine Fotografiche in Roma. Museum institutions are sanctuaries of universal, historical, scientific and artistic knowledge that allow us direct contact with the past. The introduction of the camera into these places, where time aspires to an absolute dimension, creates a kind of conceptual short circuit to which the title of this working group, almost an oxymoron, is meant to allude. Thus two categories of time come into contact: the mechanical and fickle time of the photographic shot and the ideal, stable time of the work of art. The photographs on display represent different individual paths and formulate the hypothesis of an anti-catalogue whose subject is the here and now of personal and unique aesthetic experiences. It is the proposal for a new museum that awaits the visit of an unknown and far-off observer, which perhaps we already are today. The photographers: Anna Ammendolia, Laura Bussotti, Andrea Civenzini, Stefano Conte, Alexandra Crasnaru Dragomir, Piero Di Domenicantonio, Angelo Miranda, Fabrizio Noto, Antonella Albani, Alessandro Congiu, Giovanni Coppi, Carola Gatta, Vittorio Nera, Piergiorgio Radaelli, Jeanny Ricci, Claudia Tombini, Cristina Zompatori, Alessandra Calvani, Enrico Cubello, Federico D’addio, Paola Fumagalli, Mauro Raponi, Flavia Rossi, Giovanni Sabato. Find out more .

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An image of mine received a mention from the jury of the Photomaarc 2020 competition.

A photograph of mine was selected, from among more than 600, for the Instagram competition “URBAN: Dream & Reality” and will be exhibited at FestiWall (Ragusa), from 14 to 27 September 2015.

An interview with me was published in issue 13 of the online photography magazine “ Photosophia ”. The article was also featured by FIAF .

On 21 June in Albano Laziale (RM), at the former Chiesa di S. Maria delle Grazie, there will be a photography exhibition showing the images selected for the Trofeo Spadoni, a competition organized by FIAF among all the Photography Clubs of Lazio. On display is a photograph of mine selected for the set-theme section “Infrastrutturalmente”. My club Lucis Imago won first prize under 25 in the set-theme section.

I was selected for the group exhibition #‎shotastory ‬, curated by Arianna Catania. My photographs will be exhibited at Fotoleggendo 2015 , from 5 to 26 June, at I.S.A. – Istituto Superiore Antincendi – Roma. A photograph of mine was included in the official catalogue of “Fotoleggendo 2015”. Read here

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I took part in the FIAF national project – Talent Scout 2015 – with the photography club Lucis Imago and was selected among the five best authors in the senior category.

In May 2015, Huffington Post Italia and Officine Fotografiche organized a contest on Instagram on the 4 elements: air, water, fire, earth. A photograph of mine was selected from among the more than 300 posted. The winning images will be projected on 28 May, during the finissage evening of the exhibition 4 by TerraProject, at Officine Fotografiche, Roma. Click here to see the winning photos.

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On pages 40-41 of the issue dedicated to EXPO 2015, a photograph of mine of Massimiliano Fuksas.

The “Alta Velocità” project was selected and exhibited during the “Female in March” evening of 7 March 2015, organized by Officine Fotografiche and Obbiettivo Donna.

In January 2015, HuffPost Italia, Instagramers Roma and Officine Fotografiche organised the #UlisseOggi contest on Instagram to represent the idea of travel as a metaphor for life. Among more than 1200 posts, one of my photographs was selected.

Repubblica.it, in collaboration with the Festival internazionale di Roma, invited readers to send in photos on the theme of portraiture, the subject of the thirteenth edition of the 2014 event. Two of my images, among more than 2500, were selected and exhibited at the Macro on via Nizza.

In October 2014 the manifesto book of the “Visualfood” discipline was published, written by Rita Loccisano, food designer, blogger and creator of this original form of food art. I took the cover photo and the author’s portrait inside in her kitchen in Modena.

On 22 June, in Bassiano (LT), at the Gathering of the Lazio Photo Clubs, there will be a photography exhibition displaying the images selected for the Trofeo Spadoni, a competition organised by FIAF among all the Photographic Clubs of Lazio. On display will be one of my photographs selected for the fixed-theme section “L’attesa”. The Circolo Lucis Imago , to which I belong, won first prize in the fixed-theme section.

I took this portrait of Massimiliano Fuksas for the magazine “La Freccia”, the monthly publication of the Ferrovie dello Stato.

In October 2013, the Editor of Vogue Italia, Franca Sozzani, launched the #heartfrancasozzani1 contest on Instagram, with the theme of “the heart in its thousand expressions”. The 40 chosen photos, including one of mine, became the stars of the labels of the Disaronno mini bottles.

At LAR – Libera Accademia di Roma – the series “ Seminari d’Autore ” begins, a series of meetings–seminars in which a photographic author will present a world-renowned great photographer on display in Rome . I will present the great Robert Capa , for the very first meeting of the series. Date: Friday 13 December, 6–8 pm LAR-UPS venue, viale Giulio Cesare 78, Rome Admission €5.00 – Booking required http://www.accademialar.it/Robert-Capa-seminario-di-Fotografia.html

Some of my photographs from the Photovogue portfolio are for sale on the Art&Commerce website.

With Fotosintesi-Per un immaginario esseziale della fotografia, Garage Bonci celebrates its first year of exhibitions in Pietrasanta. From 12 October, eight artists – Aqua Aura, Raffaella Badalotti, Lorenza Ceruti, Carola Gatta, Stefano Germi, Jule Hering, Stefano Lanzardo and Maurizio Vezzoli – trace, with their works, the essential lines of contemporary photography. Portrait, landscape and conceptual works come together here to speak the same language, made of clear and immediate tones, never rhetorical. Fotosintesi-Per un immaginario essenziale della fotografia is open from Friday to Sunday, from 5 to 9 pm, until 10 November 2013.

One of my photographs, taken at the Prater in Vienna, was selected for the book “Beauty in Wonderland” published by Vogue Italia on the occasion of the 2013 Fashion Week in Milan, through a contest launched on Instagram.

From 13 to 15 September 2013, the SIFest OFF was held in Savignano sul Rubicone. In the Festival’s Spazio Instagram, one of my photographs was exhibited, selected as part of the Instagram contest #speciedispazi among more than 18000 images.

On Instagram, one of my photographs was personally selected by the editor of Vogue Italia, Franca Sozzani, for the #peoplefrancasozzani1 collection. The photo was then published on the Vogue Italia website.

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One of my photographs, taken in New York, was published in the Repubblica.it gallery “ Il mondo in un minuto dei lettori ”.

For the 25th anniversary of Vogue Italia, the hashtag #sognofrancasozzani1 was launched on Instagram, inviting readers to send in the visual interpretations of their dreams. Two of my photographs, personally selected by the editor Franca Sozzani, were published on the Vogue Italia website.

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On 23 June in Cave, at the Palazzetto dell’Arte, there will be a photography exhibition displaying the images selected for the Trofeo Spadoni, a competition organised by FIAF among all the photography clubs of Lazio. Two of my photographs will be on display, one for the open-theme section and one for the fixed-theme section “Architettura nel Lazio”. The Circolo Lucis Imago was awarded in the fixed-theme section “Architettura nel Lazio” and in the open-theme section for the largest number of selected photos.

A photograph of mine, taken on a Bike Polo court in Rome, has been published in the Repubblica.it gallery “Il mondo in un minuto dei lettori”. Click here

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I was selected for the Group Photography Exhibition organised by the Associazione Michele Valori entirely dedicated to Black and White. The exhibition is part of the MICRO Contemporary Visual Arts festival. The exhibition will be open from 25 to 28 May 2013 at the Galleria Spazio 40 in via dell’Arco di San Calisto.

Join us on Wednesday 24 April at 6:00 PM in the passengers’ hall of Stazione Termini (platform 1) for the opening of the exhibition “Suggestioni Ferroviarie” by the Circolo Fotografico “Lucis Imago”. Among the works on display until 24 May there are four photographs of mine. Click here to see all the photos exhibited by the Circolo Fotografico “Lucis Imago” http://www.lucis-imago.it/?p=1293

On 13 April 2013, at the Junior International Institute school, the exhibition “Protagonisti nel Mondo” will be set up. The theme of the event, promoted by the Fondazione Roma Scuole under the patronage of the Comune di Roma, is the journey: a tool to discover, through personal and direct experience, the priceless beauty of the “new”, to measure ourselves against what appears to us as culturally different. I will be present with three photographs and a photographic set to portray anyone who requests it.

On 2 April 2013, together with Luigi Feliziani, I was a guest on the television programme “Romanzo Familiare” hosted by Arianna Ciampoli and Antonio Soviero, broadcast live every day on TV2000, to talk about the experience of the photographic project “Viaggio nel mondo dell’artigianato a Roma”, carried out under the patronage of CNA, as part of an episode dedicated to the problems and opportunities of an important sector that involves much of the national entrepreneurial fabric. The video of the episode can be viewed at the link: http://www.romanzofamiliare.tv2000.it/2013/04/02/puntata-del-2-aprile-2013/

I was selected for the MICRO festival dedicated to portraiture, scheduled at the Galleria Borghese in Mentana on 2 February 2013. The event, under the patronage of the Provincia di Roma and the Comune di Mentana, offers an unusual exploration of the theme of the face in all its forms, techniques and media. From canvas to wood to plexiglass, from collage to photographic and digital images. The exhibition entitled “Tratti e Ritratti” will feature a programme of side events accompanying the show with music, theatre, live painting and performances. I am exhibiting three portraits made in a limited edition with digital photography and fine art ink-pigment printing on Hahnemuehle paper, 25 X 25 cm. The appointment is for Saturday 2 February from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM at the Galleria Borghese, piazza Garibaldi, Mentana (RM). Free admission. For information www.microartivisive.com .

On Sunday 16 December, at the CNA stand at Arti & Mestieri Expo 2012, the exhibition “I Mestieri si raccontano” was presented to the public, set up under the patronage of the Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato and the Camera di Commercio di Roma. The photographs tell the story of the great heritage represented by the artisan businesses operating in the Provincia di Roma. The presentation was the closing event of the three-day event, which was marked by great public success. On the CNA website it is possible to browse the photo galleries of the images on display and of the event.

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120 photographs, taken by me and by Luigi Feliziani , will be on display from 13 to 16 December 2012 in pavilion 11 at Arti & Mestieri Expo at the new Fiera di Roma. The photography exhibition, sponsored by CNA, sums up the project born with the aim of telling the reality of artisan work in the province and in the capital, in search of ancient experiences and traditions handed down for generations but also of creativity and innovation. The result was an unexpected and at times surprising picture of an entrepreneurial sector that constitutes a load-bearing and fundamental element of the Italian economy, populated by men and women endowed with great passion for their work and an unstoppable optimism, even and above all in these terrible times of crisis. The stories and the people we met ended up involving us with their humanity and warmth. Everyone agreed to put themselves on the line and express the pride of their work through their own image and a sentence written in chalk on the small blackboard we brought with us on every visit. The effectiveness of the images on display lies precisely in the synergy created between Art, the very root of the word “artisan”, portrayed in the working hands, and the human energy and passion that emerge from the expressions on the faces at the moment they hold up the little blackboard on which, shortly before, they had impressed their own words. The exhibition, located at the CNA stand, is open on Thursday 13 from 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM and from Friday to Sunday from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Free admission. For further information: http://www.artiemestieriexpo.it/

I was invited into the Salotto Fotografico of Silvio Mencarelli to talk about my style and my activity on the social network Instagram. Watch the video .

On Friday 12 October 2012, on the occasion of the inauguration of the music centre of the Libera Accademia di Roma at Massenzio Arte, in via Palermo 28, the photography exhibition AUTORI IN STILE will be inaugurated, curated by the LAR teaching photographer Silvio Mencarelli. Three of my photographs are also on display. From 12 October 2012 to 10 November 2012. Free admission.

MICRO is the title of the travelling festival of Visual and Performing Arts conceived and curated by the Associazione Michele Valori and under the patronage of the Provincia di Roma, which on Sunday 14 October 2012 will transform the spaces of the prestigious Palazzo Orsini in Monterotondo into a stage dedicated to the new artistic trends of Rome and its Province. From 10 AM to 8 PM, a path will wind through exhibitors, training workshops and performances, with particular attention to the Art and Performing Arts schools of the territory, which will not only have the opportunity to present their initiatives, but also to create dialogue and synergy with neighbouring Municipalities and to foster the growth of new emerging talents. Not to be missed is “Scatti” – the photographic set that will be set up outdoors for the entire duration of the event, allowing visitors to be portrayed through the shots of young professionals. MICRO, an event completely free for the public, also includes a section dedicated to special live events, devoted to the relationship between music, theatre and contemporary visual arts. Of particular interest is “In un sol boccone”, the jazz aperitif with tastings and drinks, the Gospel choirs and street theatre, which will give the ancient courtyard an even more evocative tone. In the afternoon the creative workshops will begin, with directing and psycho-theatre workshops, video art with installations, visual make-up and body painting demonstrations, A great event that will give everyone the chance to get closer to the new artistic, theatrical and cultural trends of our territory. All enriched by an unmissable live music concert that will close the evening. 14 October 2012 from 10 AM to 10 PM Palazzo Orsini Monterotondo (Rome)

On Monday 4 June 2012 at 6:30 PM at Palazzo Englefield in via IV novembre 157, Rome, the inauguration of the exhibition “Radiografia di una Scuola” will take place. On display until 8 June are the images created as part of the photographic project of Prof. Paola Bordoni’s UPTER students, which offer an interpretation of the school context through the vision and reinterpretation of the spaces of a historic Roman technical high school. On display until 8 June are two of my photographs taken inside the Roman institute “Bernini”.

Join us on Saturday 29 May 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Bar Gallery in via Giulio Romano, 10 (Ponte Milvio) for the opening of the exhibition “Alla Ricerca di Uno Stile” by the photography students of Prof. Silvio Mencarelli, lecturer at UPTER and curator of the festival. Among the works, on display until 26 May, there are two photographs of mine.

On Saturday 24 September, the photography exhibition ‘Passione Italia. 17 marzo 2011 – Una giornata Italiana’ opens at the Centro Italiano della Fotografia d’Autore. A great national event, at the centre of a network of over 200 exhibitions throughout Italy. In Bibbiena, the more than 1,000 images selected from the hundreds of thousands taken as part of the largest collective photographic project organised by FIAF on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy on 16 and 17 March 2011 will be on display. Over 4,500 photographers, professionals and amateurs alike, took part in the event, providing a snapshot of today’s Italian reality in all its nuances. Among the images selected for the national exhibition and displayed in the splendid setting of the former women’s prison of Bibbiena, today the home of the Centro Nazionale della Fotografia d’Autore, are three photographs of mine. At the exhibition venue and on the website of Passione Italia it is possible to order the limited-edition exhibition catalogue.

One of my photographs was chosen by Franca Sozzani, editor of Vogue Italia, among the 3500 images uploaded to Instagram with the tag #perfumedmemoriesfrancasozzani1. The photo was printed, together with 24 others, on about 1000 cards and given away in May 2014 during the event that Vogue Italia and the Accademia del Profumo organised on the occasion of the 25th edition of the international award.

The project “White” was selected and exhibited during the “Female in March” evening at the Lanificio 159 on via Pietralata in Rome. The event was organised by Officine Fotografiche and Female CUT as part of the Obbiettivo Donna 2014 programme.

From 14 to 16 July 2012, at 2347 Lafayette Avenue, New York, an exhibition will be held on the occasion of the inauguration of the new North American headquarters of the company Agriland Italia. Accompanying the display of the works of the goldsmith Marco Cervelli from Genzano (RM), invited as a representative of Italian excellence, are the photographs by me and by Luigi Feliziani, created as part of a broader photographic project that aims to tell the story of artisan work and its excellence in Rome and Lazio.

On Friday 24 April 2015, at 5 pm, I will tell the story of the great war photographer Robert Capa, at the Biblioteca “ Casa del Parco ” in via della Pineta Sacchetti.

In the online photography magazine “PHOTOSOPHIA”, an article about my project “White”. www.photosophia.it