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  • Photography
    • The Machine
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    • Real Food
    • Tiber Monsters
    • Covid2 Hospital, Rome
    • Ecowarrios
    • Where The West Sets
    • The Stolen Generations
    • Embers
    • The Guest
    • Animalìe
  • Motion
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luigi avantaggiato

Luigi Avantaggiato is a freelance photographer. After earning a PhD in visual studies, he began working as a documentary photographer, with a strong interest in issues related to socio-anthropological and environmental transformations.
His photography and writing have been published in international newspapers and magazines (Süddeutsche Zeitung, BBC Science Focus, il Venerdì di Repubblica, 7 Corriere, Panorama, Il Corriere della Sera, Cosmos, GEO, D-Repubblica and others). He has exhibited his photography in exhibitions and festivals in Italy and abroad.
He is author of book essays and papers about photography, cinema and visual arts.
Luigi is available for assignments around the world. 

BOOKS
Covid2 Hospital. La sfida del Gemelli al Coronavirus, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Roma 2020
Animalìe. Indagine fotografica sulla cura degli animali d’affezione, Edizioni Altea, Roma 2019 (catalog)

WRITINGS
La “professione fotografica” dell’architettura e del territorio: le mappe italiane di Roberto Bossaglia, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2020 (paper)
Archivio di cenere.
L’immaginario mediatico e il crollo dell’11 settembre 2001
, Il Menocchio, 2015 (monograph)
SalentoSilente. L’arte sosta in luoghi storici, Officina delle parole, 2011
Home Stories. Il filmino di famiglia nelle pratiche artistiche contemporanee, Bulzoni, 2010 (monograph)

EXHIBITIONS

2021
SI FEST – RESET 2021 | Real Food, Savignano

2020
ILHAM Gallery | Covid 2 Hospital, Rome,  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2019
ILHAM Gallery | Afghanistan Good Governance,  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ex Mercato Civico | Where The West Sets | Alghero, Italy
Sala 1 – Center for Contemporary Art | Animalìe | Rome, Italy

2017
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Caterina | Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Photomed Festival | Where The West Sets | Sanary-sur-Mer (France)
Festival “Architetture in Città” | Caterina | Turin

2014
Visiva – La città dell’immagine | Animalìe | Rome
theprintspace | Animalìe | London
Juraplaz | Animalìe | Bienne (CH)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana | Animalìe | Florence
Fotografia Europea | OFF Circuit | Animalìe | Reggio Emilia

2012
FotoGrafia – Festival Internazionale della Fotografia di Roma XI | Unself Service | Centro Luigi di Sarro, Rome
Galleria Francesca Capece | Following the Sand | Lecce

​2011
Galleria WhiteCube al Pigneto | Urban Desolations | Rome

​2009
Biennale di Venezia | Viste a parte | Teatro Fondamenta Nuove | Venice

INTERVIEWS | VIDEO

Unself Service | Urban Experience

AWARDS

TOKYO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 2021 | Winner | Vanishing Glaciers: The Forni Valley
SISTEMA FESTIVAL FOTOGRAFIA – RESET 2021 | Finalist | Real Food
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 2020 | Honorable Mention | Tiber Monsters
KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 2020 | Finalist | Covid 2 Hospital, Rome
KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 2019 | Finalist | Afghanistan Good Governance
ASPA AWARDS 2019 | Winner | Where The West Sets
MALTA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS 2018 | Honorable Mention | Afghanistan Good Governance
CHROMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2018 |  Honorable Mention | Palya!
CHROMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017 |  Honorable Mention | Where The West Sets
PHOTOMED FESTIVAL 2017 | Winner | Where The West Sets
MOMOWO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2016 | Winner | Caterina
LIFE-FRAMER 8/2013 CONTEST | Winner | Animalìe
LEICA PHOTOGRAPHER AWARDS 2013 | Shortlisted | Animalìe

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