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FA
Radici
Diary of an Italian Borderworker
The Mecca of Coney Island
Studio
Books
CV
Info

FA

(b. 1984) graduated in Film Direction and Production at the International Academy of Audiovisual Sciences CISA Pio Bordoni (Lugano - Swiss). His photographic series have been exposed, among the others, at Aperture Foundation (Usa - NY), SK Stiftung Kultur (Germany - Cologne), Fotografia Europea (Italy – Reggio Emilia), Triennale (Italy – Milano). His work has been shown, among the others, at International Locarno Film Festival, Solothurner Filmmtage. He publishes, with the publishing house Skinnerboox, the books “The Mecca of Coney Island” (2014), “Diary of an Italian Borderworker” (2016); with the publishing house Witty Books the book “Radici” (2018; Awarded for the Unveil’d Photobook Award).    

Filmography

- "Io sono una Sirena" (2020)

Sceneggiatura/Regia/Fotografia. 

Una produzione RSI SSR SRG

https://vimeo.com/398908049 


Screenplay

- I Campioni di Coney Island (Kings of Coney Island - 2014)

Autore del soggetto e prima sceneggiatura. 

Divenuto "The Lives of Mecca"

https://vimeo.com/192622159


Galleries & Representation

Galerie Kernweine
Stuttgart (Germany)

Solo Exhibitions
2020
- RADICI
Jest - Italy // Torino
2018
- RADICI
Galerie Kernweine - Germany // Stuttgart 

Select Group Exhibitions

2019
- PERIMETRO
Still - Milan // Italy
- FUTURE SHOCK
Fonderia Napoleonica - Milan // Italy
- POSTMODERNISM
CNAC-LAB - Tokyo // Japan
- FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA
Chiostri di San Domenico - Italy // Reggio Emilia 
2018
- LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL
Sweden // Landskrona
- RE:21 THIS IS NOT HERE
Pfizer Building - U.S.A. // New York 
- SKG BRIDGES FESTIVAL
Greece // Thessaloniki
2017
- ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL
Benaki Museum - Greece // Athens
- PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI  
Villa Brandolini - Italy // Treviso 
- IL DESERTO ROSSO
Die Photograpiche Sammlung /SK Stiftung Kultur - Germany // Cologne
- 10*10 FESTIVAL
Santa Maria Convent - Italy //Gonzaga
2016
- URBAN LAYERS
La Triennale - Italy // Milan
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography - Greece // Thessaloniki
Bitume Photofest - Italy // Lecce
- RED DESERT NOW!
Linea di Confine - Italy // Rubiera
- T14  - MODUS OPERANDI
Spazio Ex-Fornace - Italy // Milano
- PHOTOBOOK MELBOURNE
PBM Gallery - Australia // Melbourne
- ABITARE IL DESERTO - OSSERVATORIO FOTOGRAFICO
Museo San Rocco - Italy // Fusignano
2015
- APERTURE SUMMER OPEN
Aperture Foundation - U.S.A. // New York
- PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI  
Villa Brandolini - Italy // Treviso 
- FOREBODING
TM 51 Gallery - Norway // Oslo
- SONO STATO QUI
Iuav - Italy // Venezia 
- OF THE AFTERNOON
Doomed Galery - U.K. // London

Awards

- Unveild Unveil’d Photobook Award (2019)


Shortlist

- Premio Francesco Fabbri 2017 (& 2015) - Italy

- Premio Graziadei 2015 Macro Roma - Honorable Mention - Italy

- Encontros da Imagem 2015 - Portfolio Award - Portugal

- Images Vevey 2015 - Switzerland


Interviews & Features

- On paper: Financial Times; Aperture; Harper’s Magazine; British Journal of Photography; Revista Balam; Rivista Undici; Studio; Splash & Grab; Der Greif; Il Fotografo; Flash Art Italia; Still Magazine...

- Web: Fotografia Magazine, GUP Magazine, Humboldt Books, Landscape Stories, Thisispaper, Life Framer, Urbanautica, Ignant, Documentary Platform, Paper Journal, Yet Magazine,The Latent Image, Aint Bad Magazine, Mossfull, Darwin Magazine, Phases Magazine...


Other publications

-”Red Desert Now!” // Linea di Confine (2017 Italy/Germany) 


Residencies & Fellowships

2019
- Carnet de Voyage
Collezione Poscio - Compagnia di San Paolo
Italy // Domodossola
2015

- Rural Layers
Bitume PhotoFest
Italy // Gallipoli

Teaching

2019 // 2020
- Teacher, Visiting 
Photography
Scuola Spazio Tempo (Italy).
2011 // 2015
- Teacher, Project Tutor
Screenplay,Filming,Editing
CISA (Switzerland).